Example sentences of "on for [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leek out , had this heart trouble , and he 'd been in the Signals about oh ten year , he , he was on for twelve engagement and he nearly completed it when he had this heart trouble . |
| 2 | In the illustration the trial phase is turned on for fixed times and the rate of current rise , and corresponding rotor position , is deduced from the current level attained at the end of the trial . |
| 3 | The traveller who rides on a local bus can learn a lot : in the mountains of Greece everyone clings on for dear life and makes the sign of the cross at every bend in the road ; in the Thar Desert , Rajasthan , a sense of humour is essential , especially when the giggling driver moves the sheltering bus to reveal squatting passengers answering the call of nature , and in South America it helps if you do n't mind sitting next to a chicken or sharing the floor with a goat . |
| 4 | Women 's work in sweated trades ( defined with some difficulty by a Select Committee on the subject in 1890 as work carried on for inadequate wages and for excessive hours in insanitary conditions ) , was also opposed because of the threat it posed to motherhood and the rearing of an imperial race . |
| 5 | This went on for 13 months until my parents realised that I needed medical attention . |
| 6 | Apply to face and neck , leave on for 10–15 minutes and rinse off with cool water . |
| 7 | The inquest went on for many days and it had all the appearances of the public inquiry that was to follow . |
| 8 | ‘ There 's no reason why I ca n't go on for 200 goals and I do n't agree with the argument that you should retire at the top . |
| 9 | This can go on for two hours or more , until all the eggs have been laid . |
| 10 | Hunt goes on for two climbers after body is found |
| 11 | This problem has been carrying on for two months or more , and so far I have not found a successful treatment . |
| 12 | He carried on for two days but finally , in excruciating pain , had to go to hospital when a splint was put on his damaged limb . |
| 13 | I put the central heating on for one hour before the kids go to bed and one hour before they get up . |
| 14 | Seven cases in the sample ( 14 per cent ) had gone on for four years or longer . |
| 15 | The battles went on for four days that August and at least thirty-four people were killed . |
| 16 | There are , of course , many occupations in which similar demands of constant readiness are made , but when it goes on for twenty years or more it is inclined to upset a good domestic relationship . |
| 17 | With construction costs for purpose-built vessels so high , the hunt was on for production-type boats that would keep within reasonable limits of the budget . |
| 18 | After pitching their tents , the travellers held a rave party that went on for 3 days and nights . |
| 19 | Human Touch is the album he has been working on for several years and Lucky Town a set of songs he quickly wrote and recorded at home recently , and though the tone of the two records does n't differ that much , the second set of songs are far better . |
| 20 | Such hopes as there may have been — American , French , even Vietminh — of a cease-fire or negotiated settlement lingered on for several months but once the French had begun fighting they presented their case , modestly , that military operations were designed with no thought of reconquest but simply to persuade the Vietminh that they had no hope of victory . |
| 21 | There had been no handkerchieves for him to work on for several days and there was not very much to eat for dinner . |
| 22 | Please call her on for further details and tickets . |
| 23 | so you felt that and that pulse point there if you press on it hard enough you can actually stop the one in the wrist and of course that is controlling the flow of blood to the rest of the arm and you leave a pressure point closed off like that for no more than ten minutes , because if you left it on for too long that it means not sufficient blood 's getting to the rest of the , the limbs and the limb must have its blood supply , so you leave the pressure on for ten minutes and then release it , say for ten seconds just so say that the hand comes back pinkish again and if it 's not slowing down , back on with the pressure again for another ten minutes and that 's how you use it , tap off , ten minutes at the most , tap on for a little while , if it 's leaked again reapply , ten minutes at the most , tap on again , okay and that 's how you 'll control it , so if you do have a sit a situation where the bleeding was bad cos you 've got a , a limb severed , you could n't perhaps put sufficient direct pressure over that limb , this done , right , to control the bleeding then you could use indirect pressure , here , breaking or here , right in the , no playing now please , no trying to find this one right now , do this one tonight , in bed and the old lady said now what are you doing to me , never you mind , go to sleep |
| 24 | The musical interlude went on for ten minutes and finished with the mad figures collapsing on the ground . |
| 25 | The industry is still stuffed with excess capacity , mostly taken on for Big Bang and the freak year of boom that followed ( until the 1987 crash ) . |
| 26 | Contact : Motif Editions on for everyday range and Publications Department , City Art Gallery on for Eric Gill cards |
| 27 | My head was throbbing and the shoulder was beginning to ache from the kicking , which had probably been going on for some time before I came round . |
| 28 | However months later he was able to start talking about his wife and the fact that they had not been getting on for some time and had begun divorce proceedings . |
| 29 | This pantomime went on for some time and , inevitably , the emotional strain brought on a resurgence of his symptoms . |
| 30 | Ernie , who was employed by him , would go up on a Sun day to feed his stock and unbeknown to Dick Gooding would bring the old mule back with him , hitch him to the hand cart and pull it over to Birling Bank , this went on for some time and poor old Dick knew nothing of these goings on . |