Example sentences of "[adv prt] for [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The applause that greeted them was like a thunder clap and went on for so long that the Girls could not hear the music and had to count under their breath to synchronize their kicks . |
| 2 | Talks incessantly to the point of forgetting what the original question was , using long , rambling sentences which go on for so long that the interviewee ca n't remember where they started . |
| 3 | Looking back I find it hard to believe that I did n't keep abreast of all the war news ; but the war had been going on for so long that I , like almost every girl of my generation , had lost interest in it . |
| 4 | Does the Secretary of State agree that it is vital that the public inquiry in Leicestershire establishes the circumstances that permitted the regime of terror to go on for so long and that permitted complaints made by the children to be ignored for long ? |
| 5 | Pauchling the figures has gone on for so long that even the newscasters have got sloppy , mostly failing to add the rider that the bald headcount does not include anybody excluded from claiming benefit for whatever reason . |
| 6 | But it was Berty getting stuck on the it did go on for so long . |
| 7 | so you felt that and that pulse point there if you press on it hard enough you can actually stop the one in the wrist and of course that is controlling the flow of blood to the rest of the arm and you leave a pressure point closed off like that for no more than ten minutes , because if you left it on for too long that it means not sufficient blood 's getting to the rest of the , the limbs and the limb must have its blood supply , so you leave the pressure on for ten minutes and then release it , say for ten seconds just so say that the hand comes back pinkish again and if it 's not slowing down , back on with the pressure again for another ten minutes and that 's how you use it , tap off , ten minutes at the most , tap on for a little while , if it 's leaked again reapply , ten minutes at the most , tap on again , okay and that 's how you 'll control it , so if you do have a sit a situation where the bleeding was bad cos you 've got a , a limb severed , you could n't perhaps put sufficient direct pressure over that limb , this done , right , to control the bleeding then you could use indirect pressure , here , breaking or here , right in the , no playing now please , no trying to find this one right now , do this one tonight , in bed and the old lady said now what are you doing to me , never you mind , go to sleep |
| 8 | Now of course the difficulty you ca n't i it 's a personal thing and you do n't like standing watching all this operation going on for too long . |
| 9 | Under the aegis of James Prior , the Department of Employment was unlikely to go in for strongly anti-union policies . |
| 10 | Veronica 's father was Lord Somebody-or-other , she reminded herself , and did n't the aristocracy go in for rather grand affairs ? |
| 11 | ‘ If anything , containers were left in for too long to start with , though often it works well to leave the containers rinsing while you 're doing something else like working out field rates . ’ |
| 12 | But there are guidelines for women using tampons : Do n't leave a tampon in for too long ( time differs depending on menstrual flow ) . |
| 13 | Some branches go in for quite lavish posters , some make do with local draughtsmanship . |
| 14 | But i It 's obvious that you 've always y gone in for quite stylish displays of your fruit too have n't you ? |
| 15 | I go in for really frumpy underwear . ’ |
| 16 | Given Hoving 's long-standing jealousy of John Walsh , a former curator in the European paintings department who is now the director of the J. Paul Getty Museum , it is surprising that Walsh does not come in for more snide brickbats than a conversation Hoving cites with Getty , where the eccentric billionaire asks him if he would become the director of his museum . |
| 17 | Boeing had the facilities to test aircraft structures to destruction , and they also had some old Boeing 707/300–400 series that had been traded in for more modern aircraft from which stabilisers could be taken . |
| 18 | If their naivety is to be believed , they 're in for more painful disillusionment when someone can bear to break the news to them that the tooth fairy does n't exist and that the singing Madonna is no virgin . |
| 19 | Kant , in particular , comes in for very rough treatment . |
| 20 | One training organisation , which had taken a twenty three percent cut in funds in 1990 ninety one , had to take a further twenty percent cut this year , and the people who are worst affected by these cuts were the very people that the Tory Party had been crying crocodile tears over for so long . |
| 21 | Clutching at the safety of recollection , the Glovers set off for more familiar regions . |
| 22 | Black people can be denied eligibility by rules which were originally drawn up for completely different purposes ; property let to ethnic minorities tends to be of lower quality than that allocated to the white population ; and black families , which tend to be larger , may not find council accommodation which is large enough for their needs ( Brown , 1984 ) . |
| 23 | Order large glass of dry sherry and feel its warmth penetrate toes , making up for rather painful new shoes . |
| 24 | Boredom is often used as an excuse but according to sex specialist Dr Otto Kernberg it 's just a cover up for more complex reasons . |
| 25 | Mere tittle-tattle dredged up for purely prurient interest is another matter . |
| 26 | Too much emotion has been bottled up for too long and in some firms the performance-reward link is seriously distorted . |
| 27 | During recent years , demand has been building up for greatly increased facilities for full-time substitute care . |
| 28 | Brazil 's Free Zone of Manaus ( ZFM ) provides a good illustration of the difficulties of adjustment , even though it was set up for quite different purposes . |
| 29 | And watch out for cunningly disguised snipers . |
| 30 | On an afternoon in late February they climbed to the great Iron Age hill-fort at Dowsborough , from where they looked down on ‘ a magnificent scene , curiously spread out for even minute inspection ’ ; and on other occasions they watched from the hills as the effects of the weather unfolded over the landscape below . |