Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing goes right for Walter ; his father dies early , soon followed by his mother , a rigid , religious woman , who treats the boy harshly but teaches him good conduct , to write and to hold down a job in a sweet factory where he is patronised by his superiors and ridiculed by his fellow workers . |
| 2 | ‘ The radio set can remain on for hours at a time ; you can enjoy it as background to reading , writing , homework , housework … . |
| 3 | These are extreme cases , but competition for business clients between travel companies is keen and the services laid on for business travellers are considerable and proclaimed through high pressure marketing . |
| 4 | There 's a racket goin' on , Aggie ; but you know as well as me it 's been goin' on for years . |
| 5 | One can say that Niki continued to drive on for McLaren in 1985 . |
| 6 | The show goes on for Swindon , that 's for sure . |
| 7 | After the deluge , life goes on for trout |
| 8 | The question is how do you break into the cycle and make that happen , and I think the answer is , as I said , in two ways — one by making teachers more aware during their period of initial training , either at college or at university or polytechnic , and secondly by looking very carefully at the amount and type of in-service training erm that goes on for teachers once they 've left college and are in the schools . |
| 9 | The question is how do you break into the cycle and make that happen , and I think the answer is , as I said , in two ways — one by making teachers more aware during their period of initial training , either at college or at university or polytechnic , and secondly by looking very carefully at the amount and type of in-service training erm that goes on for teachers once they 've left college and are in the schools . |
| 10 | The street goes on for ages , but it 's pretty interesting . |
| 11 | No , I could tell you a really boring joke that goes on for ages . |
| 12 | The search now goes on for cancers over a wider area . |
| 13 | The transcript goes on for pages and pages , and not a single word was said about any of those increases being phased in . |
| 14 | The show always goes on for Shirley |
| 15 | And we only know that if it goes on for Monday afternoons for an hour , instead of |
| 16 | It sometimes cures itself , or sometimes goes on for years . |
| 17 | So the good life goes on for George . |
| 18 | With the residents , they applied successfully for finance through the Inner Area Programme to establish the Braunstone workshops on the estate . |
| 19 | In any case , Charles Henstock cared little for creature comforts , and had lived there for several years , alone , in appalling conditions of cold and discomfort , until his marriage to Dimity Dean , a few years before , had brought companionship and a slight mitigation of the hardship of his surroundings . |
| 20 | I do have a question and , and it has n't made , that has n't made it particularly clear as to where we are , you hinted that , and I think that was also seconded here that there might now be a post of some kind to carry on for instance the thing that I 'm particularly worried about is that there 's a sort of hiatus in the heartbeat awards , which I think would be a tragedy if that happened , and I want to be absolutely sure that that is , is n't so . |
| 21 | Then , she shared the prize for a novel , Wmffra , but this year wins outright for Tisio Tshipsan ? a novel aimed at the 9–12 age group , published at £2.50 by Gwasg Gomer . |
| 22 | At the outset he seems to have been on congenial terms with Palmerston , but their relationship went sour during Hall 's two-and-a-half years at the Office of Works : and almost from the date of Hall 's appointment , events started to go badly for Pennethorne . |
| 23 | Bring the soup to the boil , stirring from time to time , then simmer slowly for 45–60min , until the vegetables are soft and the lentils have cooked and thickened the soup . |
| 24 | Add sufficient water to cover the beans and simmer slowly for 45min , until the beans are just tender . |
| 25 | On occasion there were more serious charges where preliminary hearings were held and the case either dismissed or passed on for trial at a higher court . |
| 26 | There is a view that is as old , probably , as the human race , and certainly as old as Homer and the ancient Greeks , that there is one ethical structure that represents right for men : a composite of manly virtues , such as courage , endurance , physical stamina , wiliness and political judgement , and a corresponding but complementary conception of what is right for women , womanly virtue being seen as a mixture of timidity , tenderness , compliance , docility , softness , innocence and domestic competence . |
| 27 | The hearings are likely to go on for months . |
| 28 | Today 's ‘ continuous ’ culture processes are designed to go on for months without completely emptying the fermenter . |
| 29 | And one man who seemed to go on for years was Cecil Dunford or " Slap " as he was known , an active man in all his pursuits in the village . |
| 30 | It seemed fitting for Thatcherism to end , not with a bang , but with the protracted whimper of a ‘ hung ’ parliament ; with the Tories struggling on for days trying to patch up some squalid deal with the Ulster Unionists , before Neil Kinnock and Paddy Ashdown were driven to 10 Downing Street in their Daimlers . |