Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Generally , it is best to send out a strong opener , that is someone who can be relied upon to go all out for a victory . |
| 2 | Under the STV popularity is nevertheless what our MPs would have to go all out for if they wanted to be re-elected . |
| 3 | Under the new captaincy of Ken Mentle , the club decided not to go all out for the title but simply to consolidate their Premier Division status . |
| 4 | And then I r I realized that the job was only gon na last a year , cos it 's only a year job , so the best thing I can do is to go all out for what I wan na do when I leave the centre . |
| 5 | Powerful , yet emotive , and sometimes melodramatic , The Power of One goes all out for the heartstrings with the weight of justice and the inevitability of history on its side . |
| 6 | He left half his breakfast and wandered aimlessly about for an hour or two , listening to the other residents telling one another how awful it was . |
| 7 | I 've been searching all over for you ! |
| 8 | They must be looking all over for me . |
| 9 | I hurried back to the house to be met immediately by the first footman saying : ‘ We 've been looking all over for you , sir . |
| 10 | ‘ Luke , darling , ’ she simpered , winding a thin , heavily tanned arm around Luke 's waist , ‘ we 've been looking all over for you , you naughty boy ! ’ |
| 11 | I 've been looking all over for you … ’ |
| 12 | It gave her the uncomfortable feeling of being turned inside out for better examination . |
| 13 | She had to sit down , she thought , looking dazedly around for a chair . |
| 14 | Athelstan stood in the hallway looking carefully around for this was the first time he had been to Cranston 's house and met his wife . |
| 15 | She jumped to her feet , looking wildly round for escape , but he stood directly between her and the door . |
| 16 | Lucie began to look nervously around for fear it was part of an ambush by footpads . |
| 17 | DAVID ESSEX Going all out for the Cliff Richard Award for persistent youthfulness . |
| 18 | In accountancy , for example , by the time you 've done your training and spent some years establishing yourself , you then have your children just at the time when you 're supposed to be going all out for partnership . |
| 19 | The modern tournament is now won by a side carefully garnering its resources for two or three vital games — witness Italy in 1982 — rather than by going all out for emphatic victories in each match . |
| 20 | THE Antrim and East Antrim encounter was a hard fought game with both teams going all out for vital points , particularly East Antrim , struggling at the bottom of the league . |
| 21 | Pompey are third in the table and are now going all out for a top two place and automatic promotion . |
| 22 | Bingham , in charge of his 116th international and scheduled to retire in December , said : ‘ I 'm going all out for a win . |
| 23 | The rotary input gain control can be set to the optimum level so that the overload light flashes momentarily on for the loudest peaks of signal . |
| 24 | Its taken a rush ‘ nose job ’ , a dubious penalty , an unlucky bounce on Newsomes knee and a short back header cuased by Campbell pulling kelly back for 10 yards for those people to score goals . |
| 25 | Nevin , a £300,000 club record signing from Everton on Thursday , goes straight in for his debut at Sunderland today . |
| 26 | Finding decent practice facilities was a constant headache , leading to some crazy situations ; in St Vincent , for example , Ken Barrington , the assistant manager , hunted all over for a place for Boycott to practise , and eventually found a piece of flat ground near the airport which had ducks waddling around and a donkey at long leg . |
| 27 | Robyn rummaged frantically around for her shoes . |
| 28 | Then he walked heavily on for a pace or two until his tracks merged with the cart-way , then he turned back along the ruts to the stream and did the same thing again , more lightly this time . |
| 29 | As the ball hangs there , moon-white against the wall of cloud , everything in the world seems briefly up for grabs and I am seized by two contradictory feelings : there is so much beauty in the world it is incredible that we are ever miserable ; there is so much shit in the world that it is amazing we are happy even for a moment . |
| 30 | As they came through the exit doors , Ricky looked wearily round for an Avis sign . |