Example sentences of "and [adv prt] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And friendship with Clan Diarmaid , that we 've been fighting off and on for five generations ! |
| 2 | He strolled up and down for five minutes then , on the dot of ten , dropped the fat envelope through the letter-box of the apartment-house . |
| 3 | She walked up and down for some time , looking and sniffing , but not touching , and he waited by the door in the shadows and watched her . |
| 4 | ‘ Thursday : More ‘ set discussions ’ ; I 'm dragging a chair on and off for each sketch : ‘ Re:Pickfords ’ , I mentally mutter . |
| 5 | Jazzbeaux had been wearing them on and off for two days . |
| 6 | We were lovers on and off for three years . |
| 7 | She lived here on and off for three years . |
| 8 | What was attractive about the American consortium approach — and I must emphasise that it was never a take-over bid , Sikorsky 's stake is only eight per cent — was firstly , we had worked with Sikorsky on and off for forty years . |
| 9 | But , apart from a winter break , whatever is planned around the 23rd relates to one specific plan or association which has been on and off for several months and is now back on again . |
| 10 | These devices can be set by you to switch lights on and off for determined periods while you are away from home . |
| 11 | A 30 year old woman presented with asthma which she had on and off for 3 years . |
| 12 | ‘ Having studied these on and off for some days , what is your opinion ? ’ |
| 13 | She was worried about a pair of wild barn owls : they had been nesting in her barn for years and she knew there were young up there , but had n't seen the parent birds going in and out for several days . |
| 14 | My experience is almost entirely confined to patients of 65 years and under for practical reasons . |
| 15 | All workers are assumed to have continuous twice differentiable ( indirect ) utility of income functions , denoted by where denotes the net wage , which is given by w for non-unionists and by for paid-up unionists . |
| 16 | You went out and about for twelve weeks with your tutor constable , if you like , they call it puppy walking he was the highly trained policeman and I was the new policeman , I was with him for twelve weeks . |