Example sentences of "on [pers pn] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they quote epistles of St. Paul so difficult that the theologians , who have been working on them for two thousand years , have not got to the bottom of them . |
| 2 | With almost all the farms having stock on them for 365 days , and with wives restricted in the heavy work they could do , most men had quite a bit to do when they returned from work . |
| 3 | That has brought a great deal of success , because the French Government are now taking the tough measures that we have been pressing on them for 10 years . |
| 4 | You 're getting too much mouth on you for one as does n't earn her keep . |
| 5 | I 'm going to be dependent on you for three or four years . |
| 6 | If he 'd had his hands on her for one minute , he could have given her something to remember him by ; if only he 'd spat a single obscenity into her ear before running off , it would have been something . |
| 7 | A young Roman Catholic soldier from the Lancashire Fusiliers was billeted on him for two summer months of 1941 and never forgot the joyful singing which used to accompany Ramsey 's washing and shaving before he went off to the cathedral each morning . |
| 8 | When Vinnie Jones was a player here they put one camera on him for 90 minutes , nothing else . |
| 9 | This system is still available today but no new work has been attempted on it for 18 months . |
| 10 | Len , as he was known to his legion of friends , was elected to Selkirk Town Council in 1956 and served on it for 18 years , as well as on the then county council for 14 years . |
| 11 | Around 1920 when Eliot , with anthropological ideas in the forefront of his mind , had attacked Gilbert Murray 's translations of Euripides , Pound tried to persuade him to translate Aeschylus ' Agamemnon , but Eliot ‘ sat on it for eight months or some longer period ’ . |
| 12 | George made a long thinking , grumbling noise , then said , mostly to himself : ‘ The paperwork must have been good … if they were living on it for eighteen months … they were n't escaped prisoners of war trying to reach Switzerland on a hand-copied Fremdenpass … |
| 13 | Black-leaved ilexes grew in the churchyard and a brassy laburnum had flowers on it for one week out of the year . |
| 14 | This bloke , you know , had been working on it for fifty years nonstop and |
| 15 | Course he 's been on it for six weeks . |
| 16 | hand me swinging on it for ten minutes |
| 17 | No , it 's only a te , well I mean you can only stay on it for ten months a year . |
| 18 | There has n't been anyone on it for thousands of years ! ’ |
| 19 | Like the grave-diggers in Hamlet , they speculated on life : ‘ We 've been working on it for 25 years and we still have n't got round . |
| 20 | I 've got three people working on it right now and they 've been working on it for three years . |
| 21 | See I , mind you whenever I 'm late you see I can get on it for twenty pence except for first thing in morning . |