Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] for [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dunedin House was built by the surgeon J. S. Land in the mid 19th century , and lived in for over 50 years this century by the late Dr Cripps , Medical Officer of Health for the Holderness area . |
| 2 | The argument ground on for almost two years , in a mood of escalating resentment and bitterness . |
| 3 | Mere tittle-tattle dredged up for purely prurient interest is another matter . |
| 4 | He cast around for somewhere to put them , and at once Mei Ling took them and gave them to a waiting servant . |
| 5 | So while his empire teetered , Mr Bond sailed on for more than three days incom-municado . |
| 6 | The company came in for quite a bit of stick with their new version of the Escort and if the Mondeo had not been well received they could have been in real trouble . |
| 7 | He waited for me every year — we came back for about six years , until I was ready to be sent to finishing school . |
| 8 | No , he came out for about ten minutes then he said I 'm going back in the house mummy , just then flopped on the chair |
| 9 | I walked on for perhaps forty yards and stopped , lighting a cigarette and looking vaguely in his direction . |
| 10 | In the 82 patients followed up for more than six months , all three post-dissolution regimens were well tolerated . |
| 11 | Before their initial gall stone dissolution treatment , 15 of 82 patients followed up for more than six months had had solitary stones , compared with 67 who had had multiple stones . |
| 12 | Research studies , however , including ( … ) those of Wolkind and Kozaruk ( 1983 ) on children placed through the Adoption Resource Exchange , and Reich and Lewis ( 1986 ) , and Maca-skill ( 1985a ) concerning the agency Parents for Children , indicate that children who have been placed against their parents ' wishes seem to be settling quite well , but there are insufficient numbers , followed up for insufficiently long , for us to know what the impact of adoption of older children without consent is going to be in the long term . |
| 13 | But it was certainly not one-way traffic in front of an absorbed 19,528 crowd although Dean Saunders had the ball in the net for Villa as early as the tenth minute only to see it wiped out for offside . |
| 14 | A host of chances went begging and they had a cracking goal from John Hartless ruled out for offside . |
| 15 | Norwich did have other chances , top scorer Mark Robins seeing a superb volley ruled out for offside — but most of those came towards the end of the game as desperate Oldham charged forward in a vain attempt to gain a point . |
| 16 | A major Cabinet dispute rumbled on for nearly a year . |
| 17 | " Intense gunfire " broke out for about an hour near the government palace in central Algiers soon after the decree was announced , Agence France-Presse reported . |
| 18 | As she said , ‘ The audience did n't know what the f — we were on about and it went on for simply ages , but Ken could be very indulgent with that sort of manic streak . ’ |
| 19 | This went on for well over a month , with the owls flying free in the barn , until we were sure they were confident and happy in their surroundings . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , the negotiations between the three publishers jostling for position went on for over a year without reaching a conclusion : ‘ It was very difficult to find common ground and make sure that everyone had their fair share . ’ |
| 21 | The war went on for over a thousand years . |
| 22 | The shelling went on for about an hour then almost complete silence descended on the area as I continued to stare to my front . |
| 23 | The fight went on for about an hour . |
| 24 | ‘ It went on for about an hour , and although we could n't see anything we could feel what was happening to them . |
| 25 | I think the rain and I went on for about three hours . |
| 26 | These began around 1947 and went on for about two years . |
| 27 | This went on for about two hours , and then they got into their boats and sailed away . |
| 28 | Yes , this went on , it went on for about er three days , it went on for three days . |
| 29 | This went on for about ten evenings and at the end of it all he had lost a stone in weight and had attracted the waterfowl from the entire county ! |
| 30 | The power struggle went on for about a minute , then the Archon sat down . |