Example sentences of "on for [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On and off for I , 500 years it has been served by a community of canons ; but an eighth-century archbishop implanted monks in its precinct , and the canons failed to depart — so that from that time on for many centuries there were two communities competing for the use of the church , and from about 835 for the golden altar which is one of the supreme glories of Carolingian art . |
| 2 | Though modern readers might wish to repay Mr Ruskin 's ‘ hard work ’ recorded in a 1854 entry , with hard labour , the practice of dismembering books went on for many centuries . |
| 3 | After this final fatal episode the eruption dragged on for many months , lasting well into 1903 . |
| 4 | Erm ironically after I wrote erm the letter was typed on Monday erm to Mr Mr the only lights that have been fixed since are the ones at the end of my street and the next street not as I complained about ones on the main road erm there 's an example that 's been going on for many months where a problem , an acknowledged problem of access existed which was the reason for delay but that as I understand it has been overcome some time ago now and it 's still there , this is a group of seven lights together , the lot , erm these lights are still out , they 're not in my ward in fact , they 're just . |
| 5 | The main point is to raise money for Christian Aid , and although preparatory work goes on for many months , the 3 weeks during which the Church is used for sorting , and them selling , seem to bring out all the best feelings . |
| 6 | The inquest went on for many days and it had all the appearances of the public inquiry that was to follow . |
| 7 | This trade carried on for many years , but as a result of more advantageously located competition , it finally ceased working in about 1930 . |
| 8 | Although this written account is extremely tenuous , patient archaeological excavations that have been going on for many years on Santorin are beginning to reveal a story to rival that of Pompeii . |
| 9 | It is an idea the Pru has been working on for many years , and Mr Lawrence has been at the forefront of the plans . |
| 10 | And they 'd go on for many years with incredible perseverance , believing when they had no reason to believe , when it was crazy for them to believe . |
| 11 | But trying to classify and understand them will show you a good deal about what is going on for that child . |
| 12 | that that green was n't put on for that competition . |
| 13 | The following Tuesday he was contacted at work to say that the jump was on for that afternoon . |
| 14 | So I said well you know , I ca n't just wind it up over the next six months , I said er what I wan na do I said is erm I got ta carry it on for that transit for that Orion till I finished anyway so it 's got ta go another year so I said well what I 'm feeling about doing I said is er just sort of keeping a finger in the pie I said , he said , if I 'd said tomorrow , if I had finished the whole the tomorrow I 've got ta buy a car I can buy it finance so I 'm gon na get no tax relief on the H P I get no depreciation no nothing like that I said so at least if I still self employed I can if I have the sort of two or three vehicles or whatever three , four , five vehicles but I said at least I can have some erm and I can then sort of they would be more utilised , where as I said at the moment we got more vehicles than we really need to keep full capacity so he said yeah , yeah fair enough then . |
| 15 | The skill , once learnt , helped make me a little more popular and outgoing at school , where there was a craze on for such things . |
| 16 | If the green light came on for either project , the paper would go straight to capitalization as a commercial company . |
| 17 | These went on for several hours , rattling doors and windows almost continuously . |
| 18 | The whole penis is then rubbed with 33% calomel ointment which is kept on for several hours . |
| 19 | This can go on for several hours on a number of occasions two hundred or more eggs have been counted . |
| 20 | The list of things to be seen goes on for several pages , and most of them have three stars . |
| 21 | Dexter watched the conversation between his boss and Russell rattle on for several minutes . |
| 22 | When he 'd been banging on for several minutes about immigration , infiltration , dilution of the great Anglo-Saxon race and a lot more of the same , I seized the opportunity , rather neatly I thought , to observe that indeed things had come to a pretty pass when the name Patel was as common as Smith in England . |
| 23 | By the time he got his foot to the brake pedal they were down among the mud and the car slid on for several yards before coming to a halt . |
| 24 | Human Touch is the album he has been working on for several years and Lucky Town a set of songs he quickly wrote and recorded at home recently , and though the tone of the two records does n't differ that much , the second set of songs are far better . |
| 25 | The Hybrid Bill procedure is also relatively speedy — 14 months from the first Channel Tunnel Bill to the final Act — when compared with major pubic inquiries which can drag on for several years . |
| 26 | Dry off gladioli corms in trays , then remove very small cormlets that have developed around the base — these will eventually flower , but only when grown on for several years . |
| 27 | The controversy smouldered on for several years fuelled by the entrenched views of some of the judges . |
| 28 | Such hopes as there may have been — American , French , even Vietminh — of a cease-fire or negotiated settlement lingered on for several months but once the French had begun fighting they presented their case , modestly , that military operations were designed with no thought of reconquest but simply to persuade the Vietminh that they had no hope of victory . |
| 29 | Normally , the time is fifteen minutes , and for fifteen minutes it 's five fifty , so if you 've got a lot of hair , it 's quite coarse , it 's going to go on for several months . |
| 30 | The process goes on for several days , a few polyps occasionally expanding briefly , until finally the coral returns to its former glory . |