Example sentences of "on and [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sports Editors fretted and printers fumed as the match went on and on into the British night , with Milligan winning the 17th by chipping in , to go to all square . |
| 2 | Even when , halfway through the morning he broke out with , ‘ Well , there 's no need for you to keep on and on about the table , ’ I did not point out that I had said nothing , that it was he who was ‘ going on and on about it ’ inside himself . |
| 3 | They go on and on about the nails . ’ |
| 4 | The newspaper are going on and on and on about the problems that people have road and road . |
| 5 | She was anxious at the long absence of her visitor , and at the voices , her mother 's voice in particular , sounding on and on through the afternoon . |
| 6 | Well , this went on and on until the pile of things Morag and Granny had cleared out of the cupboards was nearly all gone . |
| 7 | After that , it was straight on and up to the hill pass . |
| 8 | The Lac d'Aumar and its satellite , the Lac d'Aubert , which are on and up from the Lac d'Oredon , are somewhere to spend the day . |
| 9 | The lights flickered on and off for the last dance . |
| 10 | Speaking last night from the motel in Kelowna , 400 miles north of Vancouver , where she has lived on and off for the last three years , Mrs Allan said : ‘ I am not coming home until I have got my child . |
| 11 | He 'd had them on and off for the past couple of weeks . |
| 12 | It was 10.23 according to the Holiday Inn 's radio alarm clock , which flashed on and off on the bedside panel , redly . |
| 13 | With precise control both units can be set to operate on and off at the same setting with consequent better heat distribution . |
| 14 | A niggling hip injury , which has troubled him on and off over the past year and hampered his preparation , was closer to the root of his troubles than any age-related downswing . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've seen him on and off over the years . ’ |
| 16 | That misconception had continued on and off over the following six or seven years . |
| 17 | A particular variant of special deposits , used on and off during the 1970s , was supplementary special deposits ( ‘ the corset ’ ) . |
| 18 | I turn back and carry on looking in the window , but it 's hard to concentrate with this blue light flashing on and off in the glass . |
| 19 | Cell proliferation is constantly being turned on and off in the target organs . |
| 20 | And , backing this melodic chorus , we were aware of another noise — as we had been on and off throughout the day — the all-pervasive hum of the power station transformers . |
| 21 | She switches them on and off like the electric light . ’ |