Example sentences of "on for about " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shelling went on for about an hour then almost complete silence descended on the area as I continued to stare to my front . |
| 2 | Leave on for about an hour , then shampoo thoroughly . |
| 3 | ‘ I did use a towel and left the conditioner on for about 6 minutes . |
| 4 | ‘ I left the treatment on for about 10 minutes but I did n't really have the time to use a plastic cap . |
| 5 | The fight went on for about an hour . |
| 6 | Apply , comb through , put on a plastic bath cap to keep in the heat and leave on for about 20–30 minutes . |
| 7 | ‘ It went on for about an hour , and although we could n't see anything we could feel what was happening to them . |
| 8 | P : I was coming home from a party with Robert Mitchum drinking cider when one of Shane 's gang came out and stabbed me in the arm … ( goes on for about ten more pages — Freudian Ed ) |
| 9 | I think the rain and I went on for about three hours . |
| 10 | These began around 1947 and went on for about two years . |
| 11 | Would one light on for about seven hours per day stop algae growth altogether ? |
| 12 | This went on for about two hours , and then they got into their boats and sailed away . |
| 13 | The wax is on for about two minutes , and it takes two seconds to pull it off . |
| 14 | Yes , this went on , it went on for about er three days , it went on for three days . |
| 15 | ‘ She does n't come on for about ten minutes . ’ |
| 16 | And then the old keeper used to come round and see that we were all right and they 'd be there till the following day and carry on for about three or four weeks you see . |
| 17 | He said he would probably stay on for about two years after the tunnel opens for passenger traffic , probably next summer , and would then take a very long holiday . |
| 18 | This went on for about ten evenings and at the end of it all he had lost a stone in weight and had attracted the waterfowl from the entire county ! |
| 19 | The power struggle went on for about a minute , then the Archon sat down . |
| 20 | It 's been going on for about seventeen months now and the in chief man at Hill House was rather interested to hear that we 'd not actually had it resolved yet , and asked for the reference numbers and . |
| 21 | but of course that does n't leave me much to talk about , becau , however he managed to go on for about ten minutes |
| 22 | ‘ I 've been canoeing off and on for about ten years , but this is my first venture on the open sea , ’ he said . |
| 23 | I mean my , one of my friend 's sons , he was a computer man , he was working on his own but he 's in his I should think he 's getting on for about forty six and he was doing freelance but this recession the people who er the firms who were employing him are using their own staff and they 're not calling on him now and er he 's not done any computing for twelve months . |
| 24 | Erm and that 's really been coming on for about five years . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The good thing about it was , it was only on for about an hour . |
| 27 | I think it was probably a ring , that sort of like went on for about a minute or so , |