Example sentences of "on for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her voice was no longer the fussy one she put on for ticking Léonie off . |
| 2 | They 're making so much noise I think we could be in danger of being moved on for creating a public disturbance . ’ |
| 3 | So that you know things are all spot on for handing books in . |
| 4 | He knew that I had always stopped and got off if there was anything else on the road — and that was back in wartime remember — so he said that with the sort of traffic that 's on the road now I would never be on for getting off ! |
| 5 | When the case was called on for hearing only one justice was available . |
| 6 | The Official Solicitor answered the call of the court within minutes and , although this application only came to the notice of the court officials at 1.30 p.m. it has come on for hearing just before 2 p.m. and now at 2.18 p.m . |
| 7 | The case came on for hearing at the beginning of April 1992 . |
| 8 | As I said to her we 've got two shelves of hardbacks in the alcove because I do think they furnish a room as the man said , but I would n't be on for lending them out because you do n't know the condition they 'd come back in . |
| 9 | well then if I go onto a medium , then you 're getting all this length and all this business here , all that business and it 's too much , if I could of found a four I 'd certainly tried it on for swimming you know , but I do n't want it all baggy and horrible you know |
| 10 | But what a thing to happen so close from home when you 're on for winning the Open ! |
| 11 | Ooh it sparkled when I first got it ooh I would n't put it on for washing up but I forget now |
| 12 | The response to the questionnaire about training has been very satisfactory and it has provided the Training Committee with plenty of information to work on for planning future training programmes . |
| 13 | Shall we put some other shoes on for driving ? |
| 14 | All I could do was to mumble that I regretted not taking my degree , and , though I could see it was irritating of me to whine , to feel stale and bored was not such a trivial thing ; that though we might have the vote now , meals still had to be prepared and children looked after and since this kind of drudgery was despised by society as not being ‘ real work ’ , we were in the hideous position of being both exhausted and imprisoned by it and also looked down on for doing it ; that I had honestly tried to be the sort of wife Richard wanted — and the sort of wife I felt I ought to be — but it was like being in a kind of airless cell and I could only see Richard as a jailer ; that I saw myself becoming progressively more and more incapable of doing anything , not just mentally , but from some kind of paralysis of will . |
| 15 | Come on for crying out loud |
| 16 | ‘ It must be nice living here , ’ I said , changing the subject , ‘ but how d' you go on for shopping ? ’ |
| 17 | If we 'd a carried it on for say this time of the year now you with this erm Whitsun Holiday now , we 'd have had to do it seven days a week , cos you 'd have to be there Saturday and Sunday to stop anything going in there . |
| 18 | She stopped for a moment , and put her shoes back on for walking on the hard tarmac . |