Example sentences of "[adv prt] for [art] [adj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | William lived on for a further 16 years after that , into the reign of George V and the First World War . |
| 2 | The scallops would be put on to the seabed after about two years growth in special nets , and grown on for a further two years before harvesting . |
| 3 | Clarke drove on for a further 200 metres before stopping and when he did emerge from the van witnesses reported that he was in a confused state . |
| 4 | Afterwards the whole group stayed on for a few extra days . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , actually , this is such a beautiful place , I was thinking of maybe staying on for a few extra days , ’ she invented hastily , knowing her mother would worry herself silly if she knew the half of it — let alone that her car had packed up . |
| 6 | So , the tree which from which bows used in the Battle of Agincourt could have been fashioned seems set to live on for a few more generations yet . |
| 7 | And so it went on for a few more minutes and then Anna returned , bearing a red packet labelled " Marlboro " . |
| 8 | We carried on for a few more yards , then retraced our steps down to the main level and back out into the sunshine . |
| 9 | The Steady State Theory floundered on for a few more years , being continually revised , but eventually its three proponents conceded defeat . |
| 10 | ‘ But if you carry on for a few more days on an unofficial basis , that 's your business . |
| 11 | I can go on for a few more days . |
| 12 | The weather was still warm and sunny , though , an Indian summer that looked like stretching on for a few more days yet . |
| 13 | The eruption of Krakatoa has some parallels in these respects , for after an impressive opening , the eruption dragged on for a full three months before reaching its climax on 26 and 27 August . |
| 14 | I had been asked to teach a course of lectures at the Teachers ’ College , which is the only place in NZ to run a speech therapy course ( run jointly with the university ) ; so I was staying on for an extra 4 weeks , while the others ( except Ned , who was also staying in Christchurch with his job ) headed for Auckland to fly home . |
| 15 | And so it went on for the first 14 years of their friendship . |
| 16 | ‘ I came on for the final five minutes of that match and got 45 minutes in the second half of the second leg which we won 1–0 . |
| 17 | This allowance is very limited — it is available only for married women whose child/children are over four years of age and who have been signing on for the previous six months . |
| 18 | It is common for patients to appear for their first out-patient appointment with one or other of these problems , which has been going on for the previous few weeks . |
| 19 | Hunter 's approach inaugurated a wide-ranging debate about ‘ community power structures ’ between elite theorists and pluralists which rumbled on for the next two decades . |
| 20 | It 's the relationship between the client and the advertiser which goes on for the next two years . |
| 21 | The Pavlova Works will carry on for the next three months and some jobs will be made available at the group 's other centres . |
| 22 | PLENTY of barmy things going on for the next few days , as the Festival of Comedy gets underway . |
| 23 | Ramped Craft Logistic and mexeflote rafts had been arriving regularly throughout the night , continuing the build-up of vehicles and ammunition Which had been going on for the past two days . |
| 24 | Watching on for the past few weeks have been a small handful of experts , among them Jim Railton of The Times , who 's been following the Boat Race for twenty years . |
| 25 | In the U K the improvement plans we 've been working on for the last two years have been very successfully implemented but they 've been overtaken by the U K recession . |
| 26 | ‘ I was thinking about coming on for the last five minutes when we were 2-0 down , to get a bit of glory , but the legs would n't let me , ’ he joked . |
| 27 | The whiplash dynamics of Batman Returns represent the culmination of a process that has been going on for the last 15 years . |
| 28 | LLANDUDNO General Hospital will be virtually closed down for the next few days while the scale of the damage is assessed . |
| 29 | Michelle has been paralysed from the chest down for the past 11 years — the result , she claims , of a routine jaw operation she underwent at Poole General Hospital in November 1982 . |
| 30 | It 's been really getting me down for the last four seasons — I 've been running disgustingly . |