Example sentences of "on for another [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather than alight at the Gare du Nord railway terminal , they stayed on for another stop , leaving at Châtelet in the centre of the city . |
| 2 | So he steps on for another mouthful ; and this time does n't jump back . |
| 3 | If Attlee had carried on for another year , and the economy had turned round , Labour might still be in power . |
| 4 | In 1952 Walter Luff should have retired , but was twice persuaded to stay on for another year by the Transport Committee . |
| 5 | Those that you think are worth persevering with can be grown on for another year , getting a second chance to bloom . |
| 6 | She carried on for another year and then died suddenly from a heart attack . |
| 7 | The fighting dragged on for another year , during which time the Nationalist armies occupied Catalonia and the ever-precarious unity of the Republican political forces collapsed . |
| 8 | So use the opportunity , get a return , make them take a good look at you and then you know you 're alright and can go on for another couple of years and make them look at you again . |
| 9 | Is she staying on for another couple of Luxembourg performances ? |
| 10 | You should be feeling slimmer this morning , and it should encourage you to carry on for another day . |
| 11 | ‘ Are you sure you do n't mind having us stay on for another day ? ’ |
| 12 | The dog-handlers struggled on for another hour but then they , too , gave up . |
| 13 | RAMBO 'S HALL rolled back the years yesterday and now he 's spot on for another Cambridgeshire bid . |
| 14 | No doubt he himself would have difficulties : but he thought that the Conservatives , without entering into any general undertaking , would support his Government , which would not embark upon any extravagant legislation ; and in this way the King 's Government might be carried on for another Session or even longer . |
| 15 | Hugo glanced at his watch , and decided to press on for another half-hour . |
| 16 | It will go on for another while anyway we hope . |
| 17 | ‘ Jerry here will snore his afternoon beer-snore , so I am jus ’ gon na have to put a pillow over my head and pray to God the roof stays on for another winter . ’ |
| 18 | And it 's still going on for another season . |
| 19 | The group carried on for another album and a few more singles but the charts were changing , and their time was up . |
| 20 | The matter will therefore drag on for another month until the next management committee meeting , while Ferguson has to continue his return to the first team under awkward circumstances . |
| 21 | So well we could go out there anyway to see whether they 've got any er you see if they carried it on for another month |
| 22 | I was going back to London the next day ; the actor was staying on for another week . |
| 23 | Prominent advocates of ratification included EC Commission President Jacques Delors ( who declared on Aug. 28 that he " would not stay on for another mandate if the " no " vote won " ) and also both the RPR leader Jacques Chirac and the UDF leader Valéry Giscard d'Estaing , although many RPR and UDF members were opposed to ratification . |
| 24 | And so on and so on for another hour and a half , sweating and dazed , until at 4.48 a.m. , extremely painfully , out comes young Tom ( not such a bad name ; commonplace , I know ) , emerging head looking like a terrifically cross blue Brussels sprout , splosh go the fluids , splat goes the placenta and there he is . |