Example sentences of "on [adv] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mercer Lorrimore 's colours , red and white like the rosette he had pinned on gamely For the Sake of Canadian Racing , could be seen entering the outermost stall . |
| 2 | But investors who have clung on grimly for the past five years should hang on a while longer . |
| 3 | And Vivienne kept telling me , I should have stayed on just for the grant . |
| 4 | Yeah , I wonder what cartoons they 'll have on tomorrow for the kid 's holiday ah ? |
| 5 | Yes it did it run down to the river and we used to have to write to get a permit to camp on there for the week but then there used to be an old , the old foreman of he used to come round every Saturday night , have you got your permit ? |
| 6 | For better or worse , it is a de-historicized ‘ history ’ : a reservoir of literary and cultural materials that can be drawn on precisely for the purpose of making novels ; a reservoir , more exactly , of cultures , themes , characters , rhetorical forms , stereotypes and structures … |