Example sentences of "and [adv prt] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The lights flickered on and off for the last dance . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Nor does it rely principally on my experience in classrooms , though I have been , briefly , a secondary schoolteacher and have been visiting schools and working with young people in a variety of ways on and off for the last sixteen years . |
| 5 | He 'd had them on and off for the past couple of weeks . |
| 6 | I was worried sick when I saw it , and I 've been ringing your number on and off for the past hour . |
| 7 | They made it to the end of the road in Bombay where all the cars had to be steam cleaned inside and out for the last leg of the journey . |
| 8 | The insects are out and about for the same reason as us , moving at night to beat the midday heat at the very centre of the Grand Canyon . |