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

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1	After a while I sat down in a secret place by the Cherwell and fell to musing about how I had once myself aspired to Oxford , how one of my lecturers at Edinburgh had urged me to go on to read for a B.Litt. there , but of course the war had put an end to any such ambitions .
2	This may have brought comfort to some but statistically it was as risky as playing Russian roulette , and I laid off smoking for the next seven years .
3	I mean yesterday after I had me dinner I dropped off to sleep for a couple of hours cos
4	Now that 's settled can I carry on moping for a few hours more ? ’
5	Still , Mr Dysart went to see what 'e could do , while I went back to phone for the police .
6	The registration plates said it was only two years old but I stopped believing registration plates about two years before I gave up waiting for the tooth fairy .
7	After positioning the wad in my cheek I sat around waiting for the hit , feeling smug with my new-found anthropological skills .
8	‘ Folly , I do n't want you to go on looking for a place of your own .
9	Most significantly , over two-thirds of those who turned out voted for the early election of a new parliament ( not now due until 1995 ) .
10	Er so so when you left school how did you go about looking for a job ?
11	Harry Fry , John Ross and Jimmy Rutherford , ordinary Scots who went off to fight for a cause in Spain and who were not to return .
12	You know , you go on looking for a solution to this difficult problem .
13	So the dream becomes a symbolic expression of this conflict and what very often happens is the there 's a kind of compromise in which you go off and look for the bathroom or the drink of water or whatever it is you want , but the dream keeps postponing you finding it , in order to lengthen the dream and the state of sleep , so you go on sleeping for a bit longer .
14	She went on to work for the Friends ' Committee in France , Austria , Poland , and Greece .
15	Furious , she sat down to wait for the next vehicle .
16	Am I glad we came out to work for the entire season , Rosie !
17	We go on praying for the release of hostages and prisoners held without a cause ; and we pray for peace , and especially for the peace of Jerusalem .
18	We went on walking for a while , in silence .
19	We went out to wait for the others .
20	I hope they do what they set out to do for the sake of the people of West Belfast .
21	After another couple of hymns and an anthem , they go down to prepare for the next service .
22	They took up flying for a hobby and say all you need is courage and a taste for adventure .
23	They carry on arguing for a bit , then Peter hits the cymbal again .
24	Then , as he goes on listening for a few weeks , looking carefully at ever-new pictures of different cases , a tentative understanding will dawn on him ; he will gradually forget about the ribs and begin to see the lungs .
25	Any decent sized salmon would be bound to show itself as it moved around waiting for the next tide to free it .
26	Putting the thoughts out of his head , he settled back to wait for the next people who could keep the Americans busy .
27	He flew around hoping for a break in the visibility .
28	Jehan suddenly thought about the possibilities of ambush , and he wheeled around to look for the trooper who was riding escort on this side .
29	As an engineer , with a craftsperson 's interest in machines , he could not believe that they were the real villains of the piece and he set about looking for the deeper fault underlying their applications .
30	‘ And Gabby turned out to be particularly good , which saved him from having to do the usual terrible , crap jobs that the Hawaiians had to do , and he ended up playing for a living in just about every joint in Hawaii — and there were lots of them in those days , because live music was a big thing .