Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [verb] on for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had all been going on for years , Chertro said , and apparently earlier technicians had been doing the same for a long time before . |
| 2 | You know they were only being taken on for a couple of months and they , they wanted to form a trade union but quite a lot of the tra er father Christmases would n't join a trade union . |
| 3 | By the end of the 1970s , such of these early headhunting characters who still survived could be found occupying the positions of non-executive directors and chairmen of search firms , lending respectability and weight but not necessarily being called on for practical help ; by the 1980s most had disappeared . |
| 4 | However months later he was able to start talking about his wife and the fact that they had not been getting on for some time and had begun divorce proceedings . |
| 5 | These steps into a wider world were part of a great process of expansion by western Europe that had already been going on for decades . |
| 6 | Army bomb disposal experts arrived at Dorton late this afternoon to join the search of the trackside that had already been going on for four and a half hours . |
| 7 | My head was throbbing and the shoulder was beginning to ache from the kicking , which had probably been going on for some time before I came round . |
| 8 | Erm and that 's really been coming on for about five years . |
| 9 | Well if she gets here at quarter past seven and three hours is quarter past ten , and she 's supposed to be at the Penny Farthing at nine o'clock , so you know , I , I do n't feel as though we are you know getting erm our money 's worth from her at the moment , erm also erm she told me in the beginning that this was only go on was going on for about six weeks , well it has now been going on for over eight weeks and she now says that erm she does n't know how longer it 's going on for and I think she is just erm stalling us . |
| 10 | Can I just say that in getting them , I think erm the er Lands Charity trustees are not actually obliged to report to us , and Kevin 's doing this as a matter of sort of courtesy really , because we appointed him , erm but erm erm I think it 's a subject that could well be called on for one of these sort of regular , little , important at the A G M , erm |
| 11 | The travellers say they wo n't be moving on for a few days and tonight , the festival still appears to be in full swing.Local people are angry after finding drug-taking equipment dumped in gardens , and sheep savaged to death at a local farm . |
| 12 | She said , ‘ Well , it wo n't be going on for much longer . |
| 13 | Well if she gets here at quarter past seven and three hours is quarter past ten , and she 's supposed to be at the Penny Farthing at nine o'clock , so you know , I , I do n't feel as though we are you know getting erm our money 's worth from her at the moment , erm also erm she told me in the beginning that this was only go on was going on for about six weeks , well it has now been going on for over eight weeks and she now says that erm she does n't know how longer it 's going on for and I think she is just erm stalling us . |
| 14 | A client is not easily detached from a solicitor who has been handling his affairs over a period of years , but a comparatively mild solicitation may deprive an insurance broker of valuable business which otherwise might safely be reckoned on for a period . |