Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [verb] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Eliot goes on to wish for a combination of religious , anthropological , and neurological knowledge as exemplified by Rome , Cambridge , and Harley Street .
2 ‘ Folly , I do n't want you to go on looking for a place of your own .
3 It also allows the police and Customs to permit accountants to go on acting for a client after they have disclosed suspicious activity to them .
4 All too often husbands actually prevented their wives from coming to the picket line and there were cases where parents-in-law forced women to go on working for the sort of reasons described in Chapter 6 .
5 Strangely , it was decided that a repeat investigation was not required and I was allowed to go on caring for the patient throughout her stay .
6 He 's he 's a quick nimble defender Speedy was just hanging hanging on waiting for the ball to be played into him and I must confess I did n't really see anything afterwards I mean well if you look at that that does n't seem anything untoward does it ?
7 What is anatomical basis of this orientation selectivity ? ( personal communication ) suggests an answer which is reminiscent of that proposed by to account for the ability of octopuses to recognize spatial patterns .
8 After all , as Deborah Hutton , health editor of Vogue , put it : ‘ If you 're the sort of person who frowns , even if you do wear these things for an hour while you exercise , you 'll carry on frowning for the rest of the day after you 've taken them off . ’
9 Willis and four men were whisked off to jail for the night and released on bail .
10 I mean yesterday after I had me dinner I dropped off to sleep for a couple of hours cos
11 Will the Salters ' chemistry A-level syllabus form a reasonable basis for those students going on to read for a chemistry degree at university or polytechnic ?
12 BURIAL costs in Middlesbrough are going up to pay for the installation of cameras in flats overlooking cemeteries .
13 And although scores of people turned up looking for a pet , new waifs were being brought in almost as quickly .
14 Over 100 members turned up to compete for the honour of representing Limerick Area in the National Finals in Belfast .
15 Solution : Give up knitting for the moment .
16 They won 61% of the vote for Congress in March , but only 27% in December ( when far fewer people turned out to vote for the assembly ) .
17 If you just stand around waiting for the enemy to come to you then of course your ladz will get bored , and naturally they 'll start to get a bit fractious , then inevitably they 'll end up failing an Animosity test probably just when you do n't want them to .
18 What sort of thing — for instance , one of the problems in some areas might be that the buses erm do n't erm that there is an insufficient bus service late in the evening , so a lot of kids hang about waiting for a bus and get into trouble waiting .
19 I actually started with eng civil engineer , going round looking for the camp site and then we did tramp the hills .
20 And Mum and Dad are going off on holiday on Saturday , so they wo n't be popping in to visit for a couple of weeks . ’
21 Uncle Mick found it difficult getting down to kneel for the Consecration .
22 I hope they do what they set out to do for the sake of the people of West Belfast .
23 Then dig out to allow for a layer of hardcore plus about 75mm ( 3in ) of concrete on top .
24 ‘ It is time for Drew to go back to work for a living , ’ said his manager .
25 Novell has no compelling reason ( nor should it have ) to keep on paying for the fuel that burns in the Unix flame .
26 A committee has now been set up to lobby for the restoration of the medieval paving and an invitation has been issued to the public to show its support by sponsoring a brick at L10,000 a time ( see The Art Newspaper No. 16 , March 1992 , p. 13 ) .
27 Two trade bodies were set up to press for a system of price fixing : the Associated Booksellers of Great Britain and Ireland in 1895 and the Publishers Association in 1896 .
28 The good news is that giving up smoking for the sake of the unborn baby is all that has to be done to bring an end to these needless deaths and halt the other harm suffered by these most defenceless of nonsmokers .
29 He flew around hoping for a break in the visibility .
30 I sometimes think that if we were back in biblical days and John the Baptist was running around looking for a wilderness he would n't go to the desert he would come to Creggan !
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