Example sentences of "on for [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Constanza was getting on for fourteen and everybody had forgotten about an heir . |
| 2 | President dos Santos appealed for the UN to stay on for two or three months after the elections . |
| 3 | And that went on for two or three weeks you know , and I said to the the station master at when he came across on his once a week visits he would come across . |
| 4 | the project will go on for two or three weeks . |
| 5 | Eventually Jim 's old caddie came out of the woodwork again and I carried on for one or two other pros . |
| 6 | He was getting on for seventy and had arthritis . |
| 7 | Army bomb disposal experts arrived at Dorton late this afternoon to join the search of the trackside that had already been going on for four and a half hours . |
| 8 | It is reported on the front page of The Times today that the common agricultural policy — that squalid policy which is costing British families an average of £18.50 a week each — will destroy the world free trade talks , which have been going on for four or five years , and involve just about every country in the world . |
| 9 | ‘ The Seconds needs a manager and as the senior professional I took the job on for four or five weeks . ’ |
| 10 | It is only possible to assert that work begun with a lifting of the heart is likely to go on for longer than work begun with a contracting of the stomach , that work done with a lifting of the heart will develop further than work done with a contracting of the stomach , but there is nothing to indicate that the small amount of work which is the result of a contracting of the stomach will not be better than the large amount of work done with a lifting of the heart , than the rich development which is the likely result of work undertaken with a lifting of the heart , always bearing in mind , wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , poring over the pages covered in his friend 's tiny handwriting , wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve , glanced up at the sheet in his typewriter , always bearing in mind , he typed ( as Harsnet had written ) , that better and worse are relative terms , and that one man 's better is another man 's worse , one age 's better is another age 's worse , one civilization 's better is another civilization 's worse , better , worse , relative values , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , always bearing in mind , wrote Harsnet , that in the long run it all comes to the same thing , long run , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , same thing . |
| 11 | Even when played clean , the notes ring on for longer than you would believe possible . |
| 12 | Nobody wants to lose and if nobody wants to lose it means it gets fiercer and it goes on for longer and it does takes a long time to resolve , if it ever is and often to the detriment of one person to the success of another . |
| 13 | We keep we keep going on for longer and longer but it 's taking a lot longer for us to get any closer . |
| 14 | As I said in an earlier chapter , the principle of speaking is not to go on for more than a few minutes without getting your audience to do something — applaud or laugh or raise their hands . |
| 15 | Other remedies will be needed if Aconite does not suffice and the condition lingers or continues on for more than a day or so . |
| 16 | A routine was established which went on for more than a year . |
| 17 | This has always been strongest in the southern States , with their history of slavery and the implicit belief , well-established in the local culture , in black inferiority — a belief capitalized on for more than a century after the Civil War by the Democrats ( see below ) . |
| 18 | The needless slaughter has been going on for more than a century . |
| 19 | The strike , in support of a suspended colleague , has been going on for more than a week . |
| 20 | Gateshead Family Health Service 's Authority admitted it had known what was going on for more than a year , but action was taken only after a patient contacted them . |
| 21 | Someone , someone told me it 's on for three and a half hours ! |
| 22 | Very big , and also for the West Germans , because they 've got to absorb these sixteen million or so new er citizens and they 've got to pay for them until they pay for themselves , and meanwhile they 've got to carry various international costs , especially payments to Russia for the Russian troops who are going to stay on for three or four years , and pay for them to withdraw and pay to build barracks for them in , in Russia so that they can withdraw . |