Example sentences of "on and [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lights flickered on and off for the last dance . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | A 30 year old woman presented with asthma which she had on and off for 3 years . |
| 4 | After a few years caddying on and off for de Vicenzo , Dave went into full-time caddying in the mid-1970s , although he was still doing work other than caddying when he took the bag of Vicente Fernandez . |
| 5 | He 'd had them on and off for the past couple of weeks . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Its light flickered on and off for a moment , as if it was making itself comfortable in a mechanical kind of way . |
| 8 | You can either run some contrast knit rows between each sample , or cast on and off for each one . |
| 9 | Jazzbeaux had been wearing them on and off for two days . |
| 10 | Well , I had known him on and off for about nine years , and my attitude was resentful — you know , I 'm not going to be another notch in his gun belt , and all that , was going on . |
| 11 | The Election had been on and off for weeks now . |
| 12 | She 'd known its cut and thrust on and off for years now . |
| 13 | ‘ The Secret Police looked for me just the day after I left and they kept looking for me on and off for a year . |
| 14 | Anyway she 's been going out on and off for quite a while now . |