Example sentences of "[adv prt] for [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Getting on for 50% of the money spent on advertising goes into television , and more like 70% in big agencies . |
| 2 | Almost equally important was the ending , by a series of agreements in 1745 , 1773 and 1790 , of a struggle for influence which had been going on for generations between the Reichskanzlei ( Imperial Chancery ) under its hereditary head , the Elector of Mainz , and the Hofkanzlei ( the Chancery of the Habsburg hereditary lands ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I could go on for minutes on end . |
| 5 | There were a lot of French-Canadian soldiers stationed in the area , together with British and Americans , and a weekly film show was put on for all-comers in the Methodist chapel on Saturday nights . |
| 6 | The rains carried on for Music at Oxford 's other major event , the Radley Fireworks . |
| 7 | Strandli again came on for Wallace with about 5 mins left . |
| 8 | And this she did , holding on for support to the iron rail that rimmed the wooden edge of the cart and which helped to keep the rags in place . |
| 9 | These trainee hostesses our among nearly five hundred new recruits being taken on for flights to up to eight additional cities starting in the new year . |
| 10 | — subs were Newsome , Whelan ( who came on for Sharpe towards the end ) and Lukic |
| 11 | One can say that Niki continued to drive on for McLaren in 1985 . |
| 12 | DIR — but read on for warnings about using BACKUP with pseudo-devices . ) |
| 13 | Nigel Lawson 's tax cuts will , it seems , be defended to the last ( though the International Monetary Fund is reportedly applying pressure in that regard ) and the search is on for cutbacks in the social side of public spending . |
| 14 | She had on that special queasy-bright look women like her put on for girls of my age . |
| 15 | The search now goes on for cancers over a wider area . |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't mind lobbyists , I 'd just rather they called themselves by their proper name as they do in Washington , rather than wittering on for hours about relationships with opinion-formers . |
| 17 | Given such prompts , some informants may then go on for hours with their recollections and reminiscences . |
| 18 | ‘ The radio set can remain on for hours at a time ; you can enjoy it as background to reading , writing , homework , housework … . |
| 19 | It was so fascinating to observe that I was very sorry when the party broke up , and even more so when Margaret did not ask her old pal Richard to stay on for supper with us after the Rolls drove away . |
| 20 | Half time — Malone 0 Greystones 8 Adrian Bush came on for Willis in the second half and made an immediate impact with a 40 second minute penalty and then a splendid forty metre touch clearance . |
| 21 | Aye , because I 've , I 've gone on for weeks with it , you |
| 22 | Talks have been going on for weeks over the future of the Royal marriage , but despite repeated attempts to save it , the Queen finally decided it was all over on Tuesday afternoon . |
| 23 | School dragged on for month after month , year after year , with Rebecca Salmon going up to collect prize after prize on Speech Day . |
| 24 | Strandli came on for Rocky towards the end . |
| 25 | Leeds battled fiercely with Whelan playing well up front , holding the ball and putting decent balls in the box a lot ( he came on for Rocky at half time ) but when we did get back in it it was Deano who was in the box and looking like scoring who got hauled down and the ref points to the spot . |
| 26 | Child suffers on for need of op |
| 27 | The couriers signed on for courses at two language schools in order to get visas , but were caught when one had his baggage searched at Heathrow . |
| 28 | Thus the hunt was on for heads of functions who could deliver results , and executive search was seen to be the only truly effective way to actually define and attract this key talent . |
| 29 | The 39-nation Conference on Disarmament meeting in Geneva on Sept. 3 adopted a draft treaty banning the use , production or stock-piling of chemical weapons , and agreed to pass it on for approval by the UN General Assembly . |
| 30 | That was not done in this case and as a result this matter comes on for appeal with only three weeks of a two-and-a-half month order to run . |