Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been raining heavily — and it was to go on raining heavily for another nine days . |
| 2 | In the early 19th Century many yards were associated with a particular guild or craft with weavers , fullers , dyers , etc. gathering together for their convenience . |
| 3 | The policies of the Ministry of Finance were widely blamed both for peasant misery and for the threat to social stability which it entailed . |
| 4 | Moxon was eventually caught behind for 80 off Allan Warner . |
| 5 | I understand the definition of a bar is somewhere used principally for the consumption of alcoholic beverages . |
| 6 | A great many people seemed to be crowding in , presumably returning home for their Saturday half day . |
| 7 | Such ensembles were not merely gathered together for the occasional ballet ; there were , in fact , three standing oboe bands at court , or , more accurately , three ensembles whose members played the oboe much of the time . |
| 8 | Then another gap , just six months , before he got a barmaid from Ipswich who 'd been visiting her granny and was daft enough to wait alone for the late bus . |
| 9 | ‘ Supposing she slipped out during the afternoon , perhaps to go home for something she 'd forgotten ? ’ |
| 10 | B : You 'd better make straight for the bank , otherwise you 'll be too late . |
| 11 | Mind you , I suspect she 'll only stay ashore for a couple of hours , but that 's better than nothing at all . ’ |
| 12 | You only lived here for a couple of years . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Even if he only lived here for a few years when he was small , I wanted him to know something of his roots , to be aware of his background . ’ |
| 14 | Cos he , he , well he said she only lived there for two months . |
| 15 | Luckily Mike Farquharson who had only come offshore for two days and ended up staying a week , volunteered to cover until my colleague Jim Gibb arrived . ’ |
| 16 | He could only wait patiently for her to draw closer once more . |
| 17 | Such is the experience of most of us when we go to bed late : we might sleep slightly later than usual but rarely long enough to compensate completely for the late night . |
| 18 | I says , oh well I better wait here for her coming back , cos I 'll probably pass her on t' way . |
| 19 | The 1980s ended with the tabloids ' confidence waning , and with the Sun 's nudes moving to page five , perhaps to slip away for good . |
| 20 | The Channel Tunnel is to be built using the grand Chantier , or large scale works , procedure hitherto used only for the construction of nuclear power stations . |
| 21 | And it 'll find the next So skip again for ninth . |
| 22 | People in late twentieth-century Britain do not necessarily do less for their relatives than they have done for the past two centuries , nor do they necessarily have a weaker sense of obligation , but they do have to work out the nature of their relationships and the patterns of support associated with them , in circumstances which are very different from the past . |
| 23 | It seems to err in moving the death of Archbishop Lyfing to 1019 ( C and E together speak strongly for 1020 ) , but D adds that his other name was Ælfstan and that he was very firm in counsel whether in matters of church or state . |
| 24 | ‘ How can she have deteriorated so seriously in such a short time , when she only came here for a check-up ? ’ |
| 25 | These figures only hold accurately for large files — 100 or more tracks in extent — although they will act as a guide even for very small files . |
| 26 | He replaced the receiver and said , ‘ You 'd better do enough for four . ’ |
| 27 | and people all turned sideways for the tourists , |
| 28 | Her husband and colleague Dr E.A. Maury writes , ‘ She continues to show the way for those who have been willing to recognise her and will long do so for those who seek a new orientation for their moral and physical well-being ’ . |
| 29 | Well absolutely , I mean we 've got together a little earlier this year to make sure we did n't have the same problem as last year , and obviously that 's a good thing to get all the problems out of the way so early and so we can all plan ahead for next year without facing any problems that , you know , just before the season starts like we did this year , so altogether a good thing , yes . |
| 30 | ‘ We 're only going away for a weekend , for heaven 's sake ! |