Example sentences of "[adv prt] to [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It often takes ages for a pair to get down to spawning for the first time and if you were to separate them now it would be extremely difficult to get them back together again . |
| 2 | Examples of such tasks are : an adolescent girl who has been having unprotected sexual intercourse with her boyfriend agrees to go to her local family planning clinic to seek contraceptive advice and to avoid having intercourse until contraception has been arranged ; a student with difficulty getting down to revising for an important examination decides that he must make a list of what he needs to do — his therapist suggests he also arranges the topics in their order of importance . |
| 3 | She 'd been down to Goring for Marius ' funeral , ( having found out the time by ringing Morrison at Orme Gardens ) . |
| 4 | ‘ But some parents find that their child 's school is not up to catering for children with special needs . |
| 5 | See basically if a customer objects , you 're about to cover the , the fact that if the customer objects , say come back to canvassing for a minute , you get somebody , you phone somebody up and they say , urgh , urgh , and they just mumble away and they listen to you and they do n't listen to you , right , it 's a waste of bloody time , but if they talk to you and they give you objections and you deal with these objections , right , they 're bound to buy |
| 6 | Do I go back to modelling for a living ? ’ |
| 7 | Ireland won 17–0 , and Cusani went back to playing for Orrell after his only cap . |
| 8 | Two-Dogs-Dying had shrugged , and gone back to waiting for his monthly security cheques . |
| 9 | As a result , he consistently neglected the search for sponsorship and , when in desperation he got around to looking for it , it was too late . |
| 10 | Rude , but true , because not for another two decades did the Scottish capital get around to paying for proper effluent disposal into the River Forth . |
| 11 | The Americans were actually behind us in discovering the importance of preventive and rehabilitative services , but when they got round to looking for permanence for children in care their strategy was a combined one of permanence with natural families and permanence with new families . |
| 12 | And erm and then we went and got my fruit and veg and then we went in Top Marks and got them so we never got we went through for a video really , never got round to looking for a video did we ? |
| 13 | Including such local luminaries as Marina Van Rooy ( left ) , singer of the sadly overlooked dance single ‘ Sly One ’ , DJ Mike Pickering , graphics star Grand Central Design , novelist Trevor Miller and ( if he ever gets round to posing for the cameras ) our very own correspondent John McCready , ‘ Faces North West ’ is an exhibition by Liverpool-based photographers Mark McNulty and Solon Papadopoulos . |