Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] for [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The enjoyment of gross physical activity goes on for a long time , progressing to skipping and rushing-about games . |
| 2 | THE WORLD HAS stopped making sense again , and Odilo forgets everything again ( which is probably just as well ) , and the war is over now ( and it seems pretty clear to me that we lost it ) , and life goes on for a little while . |
| 3 | Meanwhile the search goes on for a scientific breakthrough . |
| 4 | Everyone goes in for a little enhancement , one way or another . |
| 5 | When Eddie gets the brush off from his new female boss ( the very wonderful Robin Givens ) , director Reggie Hudlin cues up comic reversals ( she stands him up , drops in for a quick fuck , he bleats about commitment ) , which may not quite reflect the complexity of modern sex wars ( no mention of Aids here ) but are still funny . |
| 6 | River Island women 's range has already got party dresses in for the festive season . |
| 7 | His crisis is precipitated by word of his transfer to another school ; he staggers towards resigning from the school he 's at , and maybe from the profession , and then bunks off for a long afternoon 's superlager , home-brew and whisky with his brother , who is on the dole , and two of his brother 's mates . |
| 8 | This line of islands swings round to the north , and finally back to the west through South Georgia , describing a great loop , and then heads off for the extreme south of South America . |
| 9 | As a result of the rebellion in 1745 , there was no election in the burgh of Montrose , and indeed there may well have been no elections in a number of other burghs , but Montrose stands out for the following reason . |
| 10 | ‘ Rover stands out for the dogged determination with which its faced a world recession , for introducing an ever wider range of quality cars and for the spectacular success of Land Rover ’ |
| 11 | No water flows from the sprinklers here , and clearly has n't for a long time . |
| 12 | And Runcorn striker Steve Shaughnessy stands by for a possible call-up into the F.A . |
| 13 | She lies there for a long time , not saying nothing . |
| 14 | He cares neither for the broad sweep of grand strategy nor for the narrow focus of specific campaigns , so he ignores both government archives and the memoirs of the great and the good . |
| 15 | Its end , that is , the singular future that lies ahead for the collapsing object . |
| 16 | For this reason , it jars oddly for an English ear to hear words like ‘ soul ’ , ‘ destiny ’ and ‘ national psyche ’ being the common currency of political discourse in Germany . |
| 17 | Ms or Mr Trim wakes up for an early morning drink , has tea or coffee with either no milk or skimmed milk and definitely no sugar . |
| 18 | Then she reaches nervously for a hand-rolled fag . |
| 19 | The confidential reports , leaked by the unions , were compiled by 15 internal ‘ taskforces ’ charged with considering the BBC 's prospects as it gears up for the public debate over renewing its royal charter in 1996 . |
| 20 | ‘ Hangs about for a long time , that smell . ’ |
| 21 | He has received a card with drawings of gangsters on it and threats of a ‘ warm welcome ’ if he turns up for the second-round tie . |
| 22 | Vic waits law-abidingly for the green light , then presses the accelerator hard . |
| 23 | In the present situation , the officers find themselves in a very difficult position , I can not imagine an officer saying no to a member and this is what has happened if we run out of money , then the very thing that we are seeking to do , in other words to implement the democratic process to allow people to come to meetings and speak will go by the way , and I can remember some time ago when I was a new member on here saying I would be prepared to attend property sub-committee briefings as a deputy and not be paid and I was very smartly brought up by a friend in the labour group who said that 's all right for you , you can afford it , but it 's not alright for some of us 'cause we can't. and the difficulty is if we run out of money and we either have to stop the allowances or we have to slash the allowances , yeah , knows who it was , we have to slash the allowances , then legitimately people will be able to say that the democratic process is being stifled because they are not going to be allowed to go to meetings , and therefore , I think that situations whereby a member attends to speak to a , an item , a specific item and then stays on for a double length meetings and claims double length allowances that sort of thing has got to be stopped , and also members attending just to nod approval at something that has happened that they 've been associated with , that should stop , if they want to come they should come at their own expense . |
| 24 | It also takes longer for an old person to use the toilet and they may sense impatience from other residents or staff if they spend as long as they would like in a toilet . |
| 25 | After a week , Shaun calls back for the full container and drops off a new one . |
| 26 | I compared my yardages with a wheel once , and we were no more than two paces out for the whole course . |
| 27 | It calls instead for a negotiated settlement based on two principles . |
| 28 | Above all , from a Unionist point of view , the republic 's government has behaved with crass insensitivity in clinging to a constitution that still calls explicitly for a unitary state . |
| 29 | As Lane points out for the Soviet Union : ‘ However much control they have over Soviet production enterprises , managers and administrators can neither dispose of their assets for their private good , nor can their children have any exclusive rights to nationalised property ’ ( Lane 1982 , p. 135 ) . |
| 30 | And Hoddle 's Heroes … a town turns out for the big salute . |