Example sentences of "[pron] on for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Put them on for me , Conroy , ’ she said , leaning back on both hands against the dressing-table . |
| 2 | In the late seventies some people in the mainstream of literary study were inclined to believe , or halfbelieve , these ideas , or to try them on for size . |
| 3 | Pulling the centre-half back left a gap in midfield which needed a link man to pick up passes from defence and lay them on for the forwards . |
| 4 | Call them on for more details . |
| 5 | But we do take some of them on for work experience — we have to remember that we 'll always need a pool of new photographers to choose from . ’ |
| 6 | I am in the process of compiling a book on old fashioned remedies for horse ailments and am writing to ask if any of your readers have experience of any , and would they be kind enough to pass them on for possible publication . |
| 7 | Almost imperceptibly the practice began of signing them on for voyages to Britain , Europe and North America so that the numbers of Chinamen and Lascars on ships based in these areas gradually increased and with it the Chinese , Indian and half-caste population of such ports as Cardiff and Liverpool . |
| 8 | He actually likes rolling them on for me . |
| 9 | I keep them on for the programme . |
| 10 | The centre forward , whom they nicknamed Ossie , wore his sideburns long and his shorts even longer — but at least he kept them on for the duration . |
| 11 | No he did n't er P C found some trousers , I 'm not sure where he got them from er and put them on for him . |
| 12 | ‘ I always wanted to work with a squad of young players and bring them on for a few seasons . |
| 13 | Never mind I 'll sew them on for you , I hate sewing but I 'll do it for you Mary Lou . |
| 14 | That 's what I 'd like to know said Gwendoline smugly , six buttons all ripped off I 'm putting them on for Mary Lou because I 'm so sorry any one should play at such a dirty trick . |
| 15 | Go to a pushbike shop they whip them off and whip them on for you you buy , you know , if you go out and buy one then just take wheel with you they 'll stick them straight on . |
| 16 | I would just like to I know we need to the television programmes on about the Gulf and so on , but I 've two young children at home , and I find that yesterday was a very long day because there was just nothing on for them at all B B C two at four o'clock . |
| 17 | He pulled rank and went to bed at half past eleven , leaving me on for the late-night drinks . |
| 18 | Are you on for the treble ? |
| 19 | and they 're willing to take you on for x you know erm it just , a lot of it is word of mouth . |
| 20 | He drove in a goal and then laid one on for German driver Michael Schumacher . |
| 21 | In fact I did one for , for erm one on for two years I think to ab about the same as that , just in pretty colours , but it went on and on . |
| 22 | I could put another one on for any member of staff who wishes to take one to use at interviews . |
| 23 | Put that heater on then would you that one on for a while just before they come . |
| 24 | had this one on for a few days . |
| 25 | We 'll probably have something on for Mother 's day . |
| 26 | The Campbells steamer his mother had once taken him on for a day trip to Ilfracombe . |
| 27 | He found another vessel whose captain ( a Scot ) was prepared to sign him on for the voyage to New York . |
| 28 | ‘ You could have kept him on for two quid a week . |
| 29 | Call him on for appointments . |
| 30 | I concluded from what Heather told me that Alan had taken him on for old time 's sake . ’ |