Example sentences of "on for the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | And so it went on for the first 14 years of their friendship . |
2 | ‘ I came on for the final five minutes of that match and got 45 minutes in the second half of the second leg which we won 1–0 . |
3 | As the hunt goes on for the missing millions of the family 's crashed empire , Pandora , 32 , beamed as she declared : ‘ People will probably wonder how on earth Kevin managed it with all he 's got on his mind . ’ |
4 | This allowance is very limited — it is available only for married women whose child/children are over four years of age and who have been signing on for the previous six months . |
5 | It is common for patients to appear for their first out-patient appointment with one or other of these problems , which has been going on for the previous few weeks . |
6 | Hunter 's approach inaugurated a wide-ranging debate about ‘ community power structures ’ between elite theorists and pluralists which rumbled on for the next two decades . |
7 | It 's the relationship between the client and the advertiser which goes on for the next two years . |
8 | The Pavlova Works will carry on for the next three months and some jobs will be made available at the group 's other centres . |
9 | PLENTY of barmy things going on for the next few days , as the Festival of Comedy gets underway . |
10 | A 17,000-foot volcano called Nevada del Ruiz , which seems to have been slumbering off and on for the past four hundred years , erupted and melted the snow and ice which covered most of its upper reaches , giving rise to an estimated seventy-five million cubic yards ’ mudslide . |
11 | Ramped Craft Logistic and mexeflote rafts had been arriving regularly throughout the night , continuing the build-up of vehicles and ammunition Which had been going on for the past two days . |
12 | Watching on for the past few weeks have been a small handful of experts , among them Jim Railton of The Times , who 's been following the Boat Race for twenty years . |
13 | The whole thing becomes one fluid manoeuvre with power on for the maximum possible time . |
14 | In the U K the improvement plans we 've been working on for the last two years have been very successfully implemented but they 've been overtaken by the U K recession . |
15 | ‘ I was thinking about coming on for the last five minutes when we were 2-0 down , to get a bit of glory , but the legs would n't let me , ’ he joked . |
16 | ‘ Adam Reed came on for the last half hour and did well for a 16-year-old . ’ |
17 | The whiplash dynamics of Batman Returns represent the culmination of a process that has been going on for the last 15 years . |