Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | A friend he had not seen for ages came into the bar with his wife , and , in the end , the three of them went on somewhere for dinner . |
| 2 | Ahead , the wall goes on interminably for mile after mile to the distant swelling on the horizon marking the summit . |
| 3 | Just leave it on basically for about an hour as long as you 're having a conversation |
| 4 | American liberals have taken the lead in defining equal opportunity as the goal of a decent society , but the European left is following on only for lack of anything better to pursue . |
| 5 | The heating is switched on only for as long as it takes to dry the washing . |
| 6 | Come on in for a cup of tea … " |
| 7 | If he loses both he will still want to hang on in for the three autumn World Cup games in which England 's fate is still in his own hands . |
| 8 | Er I mean they there were one or two that just went on literally for days and days and days and days . |
| 9 | Rose walked on thoughtfully for a bit , then she turned to Hilary and said : ‘ You went to see your mother last week , did n't you ? ’ |
| 10 | There , she was high up above the woods , but instead of being able to see all that was going on below for miles around , as she had expected , all she could see was — leaves ! |
| 11 | The Saturday shift always seemed to drag on endlessly for the elderly night watchman and he envied people who did not have to work at the weekends . |
| 12 | Therefore if during this first shopping trip of your preparation phase you want to pop in somewhere for a drink and a snack ( assuming that this is fairly usual for you ) , go ahead and do it . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'd have had it in properly for you if you had n't . |
| 14 | All I could do was to mumble that I regretted not taking my degree , and , though I could see it was irritating of me to whine , to feel stale and bored was not such a trivial thing ; that though we might have the vote now , meals still had to be prepared and children looked after and since this kind of drudgery was despised by society as not being ‘ real work ’ , we were in the hideous position of being both exhausted and imprisoned by it and also looked down on for doing it ; that I had honestly tried to be the sort of wife Richard wanted — and the sort of wife I felt I ought to be — but it was like being in a kind of airless cell and I could only see Richard as a jailer ; that I saw myself becoming progressively more and more incapable of doing anything , not just mentally , but from some kind of paralysis of will . |
| 15 | That you 've got to have it written down somewhere for when someone takes over . |
| 16 | Only Mr Kenneth Baker , secretary of state for education , said promptly , ’ more money and put in successfully for a rise in the science-research budget . |
| 17 | ‘ Waiting down below for us , I should n't wonder — wanting us to get a move on so ‘ s 'e can keep 'is hand in at 'is old trade ! |
| 18 | They only thing they could do was to go walk up to walk up a road to and contact the Evie bus but it did n't come down along for years and years . |
| 19 | After my divorce , we seemed to get along better for a while . |
| 20 | Well a great situation Scott Gemmell followed up the long ball picked up the as they ran at the defence and then he 's committed to play it and then he 's just just slid it in nicely for Kingsley Black on his left side . |
| 21 | The Admiral did n't go in much for saluting . |
| 22 | The success of these personalised clocks mean business is ticking along nicely for Graham and Julia Sale , but it was their daughter who got them going . |
| 23 | By March things had settled down sufficiently for the DCAC to mount a mass demonstration which successfully traversed the original 5 October route — this time without diversions , but this was the last occasion on which the DCAC was able to organise a peaceful mass demonstration . |
| 24 | By 27 May , though , things had quietened down sufficiently for a daring ( or foolhardy ) party to charter a steamboat from Batavia ( now Djakarta ) and sail out to the islands to see what was going on . |
| 25 | So sure enough we let the tyres down sufficiently for it to be roadworthy and not to destroy the tyres on the way there , but soft enough just so that it would go down , and we edged it through and Roy got it through the middle and off we went . |
| 26 | Melanie and Victoria each had a fat , foil-wrapped tangerine from an aromatic , tissue-padded cardboard box , which was being unpacked when they went in together for potatoes and cooking apples ; and the greengrocer lady , nodding her gold earrings , promised Victoria a solid triangle of muscatel raisins if she was a good girl and if the muscatel raisins did not sell . |
| 27 | Urquhart sauntered along thoughtfully for a moment , stopped and turned to face her . |
| 28 | Maybe not , she might fucking chuck me in tonight for all I know , I do n't know . |
| 29 | He neither filling another form , I says well I 'll fill it in tonight for him he 'll sign it and if I post it tonight you 'll probably get it tomorrow . |
| 30 | , did n't even congratulate me when I walked in tonight for my wonderful singing . |