Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] on for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It turns on to its side and as I cling on for dear life I hear a startled cry from Nathan . |
| 2 | You should be feeling slimmer this morning , and it should encourage you to carry on for another day . |
| 3 | Is she staying on for another couple of Luxembourg performances ? |
| 4 | She carried on for another year and then died suddenly from a heart attack . |
| 5 | ‘ Perhaps even die , ’ she tacked on for good measure . |
| 6 | It was in this way that Maurice , with the two of them clinging on for dear life , put out on the tide . |
| 7 | And so , for 500 dense pages , we hang on for grim death as Hughes ' locomotive intelligence hurtles down the track he has set himself . |
| 8 | They went on for some way in silence . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He came on for one match at least . |
| 11 | He insisted on trying to go it alone and lurched against the bannister where he hung on for dear life . |
| 12 | It sounded vaguely political , chiefly because it went on for some while . |
| 13 | It was a quite hard movement , dragging the flesh this way and that , and it went on for some time , perhaps ten minutes . |
| 14 | So he steps on for another mouthful ; and this time does n't jump back . |
| 15 | ‘ Are you sure you do n't mind having us stay on for another day ? ’ |