Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does my right hon. Friend accept that if the major galleries of this country are to go on with their extremely enlightened and successful purchasing programme , it is essential that we bring in charging for entry ? |
| 2 | On the other hand , their situation is structured , and ( ‘ holism' here standing for the idea that the parts of a whole behave as the whole requires ) we are interested in the social constraints on their actions . |
| 3 | These were indestructible and to this day I regret ever falling for the slick adverts for trendy green ones . |
| 4 | Meaning if you hang on hoping for something to turn up , you invariably lose much more . |
| 5 | A sadness that could make her give up acting for good . |
| 6 | Solution : Give up knitting for the moment . |
| 7 | If you just stand around waiting for the enemy to come to you then of course your ladz will get bored , and naturally they 'll start to get a bit fractious , then inevitably they 'll end up failing an Animosity test probably just when you do n't want them to . |
| 8 | What sort of thing — for instance , one of the problems in some areas might be that the buses erm do n't erm that there is an insufficient bus service late in the evening , so a lot of kids hang about waiting for a bus and get into trouble waiting . |
| 9 | Should we then insist that it is all SEGLAB 's fault and sit back waiting for it to improve ? |
| 10 | Counsel then appearing for the petitioner does not seem to have appreciated that the cancellation issue had been heard in the course of the trial of the preliminary issue and finally decided by the Court of Appeal on 4 October 1991 . |
| 11 | sit here waiting for it |
| 12 | They sit around waiting for Daryl . |
| 13 | You know , you go on looking for a solution to this difficult problem . |
| 14 | Well they go on flowering for quite , you you 've got |
| 15 | Some of those waves at the bottom of the world — I mean you can tell by the look of them they have come from the beginnings of time and will roll right over you and go on rolling for ever . |
| 16 | We go on praying for the release of hostages and prisoners held without a cause ; and we pray for peace , and especially for the peace of Jerusalem . |
| 17 | So the dream becomes a symbolic expression of this conflict and what very often happens is the there 's a kind of compromise in which you go off and look for the bathroom or the drink of water or whatever it is you want , but the dream keeps postponing you finding it , in order to lengthen the dream and the state of sleep , so you go on sleeping for a bit longer . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'll never let you in , not if you go on crying for twenty years ! ’ |
| 19 | We then end up eating for entertainment , rather than nourishment . |
| 20 | Many people feel afraid to say that they are angry and show it , and end up apologising for what they are going to say , for example , ‘ I hope you do n't mind me saying this but … ’ rather than ‘ I feel disappointed/ angry/taken for granted/cross . ’ |
| 21 | If you 've just done a 12-mile ridge-walk then I 'm sure nothing will be further from your thoughts , but if you plan a weekend away with a person you 've fancied for ages and somehow end up heading for a bothy , unless you are totally alone any thought of a fumble in the sleeping-bag should be out of the question . |
| 22 | According to the Kaisha Society , 90 per cent end up working for overseas subsidiaries of Japanese firms — and become outcasts in their own countries . |
| 23 | Small peasant farmers can not compete with capitalist concerns , with the result that they often lose their land to them and end up working for them or migrating to the towns in search of wage labour . |
| 24 | If you 're not careful you end up going for those long healthy walks you always said you hated . ’ |
| 25 | . As I said , people go out looking for stress . |
| 26 | It is cheaper for them to get a garden fork and go out digging for their own . ’ |
| 27 | Oh yeah , that 's what I 'm saying , there 's eight people used to go up I 've seen eight people leaving the Stenness Hotel crofters were around go round gillying for for the Stenness Hotel . |
| 28 | I lay there waiting for the half-hour to pass ; and the silence of the house was still , that day , much more a silence of peace than one of fear . |
| 29 | ‘ I heard a vroom and a thud and then just lay there waiting for an explosion . |
| 30 | Haroun still lay there fighting for his life . |