Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] on for " 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 | ‘ I came on for the final five minutes of that match and got 45 minutes in the second half of the second leg which we won 1–0 . |
| 3 | We did a production of The Caretaker , which I designed , directed and in which I played on for the characters . ’ |
| 4 | I hung on for ages . ’ |
| 5 | Well I do n't know , there are such good Japanese coupes now , you know you see these lovely Toyotas and Nissans that they do the sort of two plus two and they 're really lovely cars and but if I change c car this next year I 'll still have to have four seater or , you know , plenty of room in the boot so I can pick you up from Haileybury and all that crap , but if I hung on for another two years I could then get something I actually wanted , you know . |
| 6 | I walked on for perhaps forty yards and stopped , lighting a cigarette and looking vaguely in his direction . |
| 7 | I made a full statement and the contents of that I rely on for my defence . ’ |
| 8 | I made a full statement , the contents of which I rely on for my defence . |
| 9 | I struggled on for a while , but I know my limitations when it comes to design , especially as we have grown to expect a high standard in QP . |
| 10 | But I go on for ever … ‘ |
| 11 | I was meant to talk for fifteen minutes but I went on for three-quarters of an hour . |
| 12 | I think the rain and I went on for about three hours . |
| 13 | Eventually Jim 's old caddie came out of the woodwork again and I carried on for one or two other pros . |
| 14 | Jenny let them spin on for a while ; but she was above all things a sensible girl and had no desire to find herself irretrievably stuck . |
| 15 | It 's the relationship between the client and the advertiser which goes on for the next two years . |
| 16 | Food , of course , remains a topic of passionate concern — the focus of minor complaints and disagreements which rumble on for long periods — and outbursts of contentment which are extremely short-lived . |
| 17 | Hunter 's approach inaugurated a wide-ranging debate about ‘ community power structures ’ between elite theorists and pluralists which rumbled on for the next two decades . |
| 18 | A demand for the ‘ noblest ’ architecture inevitably meant that Nonconformity was caught up in the debates over the value of Gothic architecture which went on for most of the Victorian period . |
| 19 | This movement , which went on for some time , gave Franca ( and Ludens agreed with her later ) the sense that Marcus was actually creating Patrick . |
| 20 | A routine was established which went on for more than a year . |
| 21 | The Strangeways riot , which went on for days longer than necessary because of squabbling between the Home Office prison department and the prison governor . |
| 22 | One , an innings of 499 : the other , a knock which went on for the little matter of 970 minutes . |
| 23 | Then began a remarkable conversation which went on for some time ; it was getting on for five when she left . |
| 24 | Researchers at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in the United States and at the Medical Research Council Unit for Applied Psychology in Cambridge simultaneously identified the tasks sensitive to the effects of even one night 's loss of sleep as those which were not self-timed , which went on for at least ten minutes and which were not intrinsically motivating . |
| 25 | The effects of reducing sleep on sleep patterns have been studied in a number of relatively short experiments , and one which went on for two years . |
| 26 | The victory of Roman imperialism can in its turn be described as the result of four factors : the new direction given by Rome to the social — that is the military — forces of old Italy ; the utter inability of any Hellenistic army to match the Romans in the field ; the painful erosion of Celtic civilization and its appendages which went on for centuries and ultimately enabled the Romans to control the resources of western Europe from the Atlantic to the Danubian regions ; and finally the cooperation of Greek intellectuals with Italian politicians and writers in creating a new bilingual culture which gave sense to life under Roman rule . |
| 27 | One neighbour said in a written statement that she often heard a baby ‘ crying for help ’ which went on for hours and hours though she did not contact the police . |
| 28 | You 're talking about some forms of abuse which went on for a very very long time indeed to pull the average up like that . |
| 29 | Talks incessantly to the point of forgetting what the original question was , using long , rambling sentences which go on for so long that the interviewee ca n't remember where they started . |
| 30 | That did not settle the matter , which ran on for eight years more , long after Ramsey left the diocese of Durham . |