Example sentences of "[adv prt] [verb] for [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gilgamesh went on to search for the secret of immortality and according to the legend he almost succeeded . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He thought of sitting down to wait for a break in the storm but that could have been all night so he struggled on downhill , angling a little to the left , until he met the treeline at the bottom of the meadow . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Folly , I do n't want you to go on looking for a place of your own . |
| 6 | You know , you go on looking for a solution to this difficult problem . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | I , I , I , carried on smoking for a number of years after that . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I mean yesterday after I had me dinner I dropped off to sleep for a couple of hours cos |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Eliot goes on to wish for a combination of religious , anthropological , and neurological knowledge as exemplified by Rome , Cambridge , and Harley Street . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Sports reporting certainly had its difficulties for the live commentator , who might be held up to ridicule for a lapse of sense or grammar in the heat of the moment . |
| 16 | Petruchio 's servants , speaking prose among themselves , go up to verse for the entry of their master returning with his bride ( Taming of the Shrew , IV.i.120 ) , as do Valentine and Viola on the entry of their master , Orsino ( Twelfth Night , I.iv.9 ) . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Over 100 members turned up to compete for the honour of representing Limerick Area in the National Finals in Belfast . |
| 20 | Hughie Smith , president of the National Gypsy Council , a body set up to fight for the rights of gypsies , said : ‘ The point is that York does have hundreds of acres of land . |
| 21 | BURIAL costs in Middlesbrough are going up to pay for the installation of cameras in flats overlooking cemeteries . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | Now it will go on to compete for the title of best pig in Britain . |
| 24 | We do n't say nothing on the way back , but sometimes we just burst out laughing for no reason at all . |
| 25 | One evening Friday went out to look for a turtle for meat and eggs . |
| 26 | I hope they do what they set out to do for the sake of the people of West Belfast . |
| 27 | George and Bute set out to press for a policy of peace and lower taxes , which recognized the great strain the economy had been asked to bear . |
| 28 | Then dig out to allow for a layer of hardcore plus about 75mm ( 3in ) of concrete on top . |
| 29 | They work out how much money to feed back to pay for the inputs for the next year , and the remainder is profit . |
| 30 | Hun Sen went on to call for a meeting of the all-party Supreme National Council ( SNC ) in Bangkok . |