Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] for [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It all seemed to go on for a long time , but it must have been just a few seconds . ’ |
| 2 | It seemed to go on for a long time . |
| 3 | To go on for a long time doing better and better exhibitions . |
| 4 | Colleagues , it 's approximately four twenty five , what I propose to do is to go on for a short period and to take in the resolutions on the , on your erm Maastricht erm and then we 'll have a look at the time , but I think we should be able to get those in within a , a relatively short period of time . |
| 5 | It is usually noticeable that when a masochist has for years felt hard done by , often over-controlled by their partner , and then for some reason the tables are turned , he or she metes out punishment as if this has to go on for the same length of time that the masochist 's suffering was endured . |
| 6 | When he was able to sit down for a brief breather , he received a telephone call from control saying that some twenty young bullocks had got loose on the railway line heading in his direction and would he keep a look out , with the thought that trains and cattle do not mix . |
| 7 | A hundred thousand soldiers seems to have been the maximum any Hellenistic state was able to gather together for a decisive battle . |
| 8 | Then another gap , just six months , before he got a barmaid from Ipswich who 'd been visiting her granny and was daft enough to wait alone for the late bus . |
| 9 | And did the fourth consecutive Tory victory imply that Her Majesty 's loyal Opposition was destined to remain so for the foreseeable future ? |
| 10 | ‘ The players have to be prepared to put themselves into dangerous positions , to go in for a hard tackle , be brave and take the blows . |
| 11 | However , the charges on both money and other property may be postponed or other property substituted , especially where the money or property is required to provide somewhere for the assisted person to live . |
| 12 | and erm I used to do erm , keep a check on the flying times of the planes cos every forty hours they had to come in for a different check . |
| 13 | He never wrote entirely admiring reviews : ‘ It 's the essence of a book never to be perfect , ’ he said , ‘ so its writer must expect to come in for a little criticism . ’ |
| 14 | We used to come in for a fair amount of ribbing and good-natured chaff , and remarks like , Was it a red sky this morning ? |
| 15 | She said politely , ‘ Would you like to come in for a last drink ? ’ |
| 16 | He was recently fined £500 by the European Tour when , after a first round of 74 in his defence of the Mediterranean Open , he refused to come in for the requested press interview . |
| 17 | The way I was doing the deal , everyone was going to have to work together for a long time . ’ |
| 18 | After all , we 're going to have to work together for the next week or so , so maybe it will help iron out the problems we keep having . ’ |
| 19 | We decided to try to get to know one another better , seeing as we 're forced to work together for the next week or so . ’ |
| 20 | The industry still has problems but I sense an increasing willingness for its component parts to work together for the common good . |
| 21 | He did n't know if they would succeed , but it showed that , even here , there were people prepared to work together for the common good . |
| 22 | Sixty miles they used to come over for a good evening at those and maybe two principles |
| 23 | We will continue to work strenuously for a political agreement which is acceptable to all the parties involved in the talks which the Secretary of State has had during the past year with the main constitutional parties in Northern Ireland the Government of the Republic of Ireland . |
| 24 | Their manifesto says that the government ‘ will continue to work strenuously for a political solution acceptable to all parties ’ , which is to say for a gravitational system in which apples fall upwards . |
| 25 | She said : ‘ Try and persuade him to come home for a special tea . |
| 26 | The fact that the army and guerrillas had agreed to meet directly for the first time was seen as a breakthrough and a indication that " professional " elements in the army leadership wished for a political solution . |
| 27 | The strategy is to sell the plug compatibles for less than the price of the equivalent IBM machine but to make them at least as powerful , or to provide more for the same money . |
| 28 | Five years ago , increasingly concerned about the environment , he decided to work directly for an environmental group . |
| 29 | One reason there is so little change in most traditional bureaucratic organizations , I argue , is that they have conditioned out of people the willingness to stand up for a new idea . |
| 30 | Maginnis , and by implication the Official Unionists , were weak and failed to stand up for the common man . |