Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Asking the candidate to wait on for a few minutes . |
| 2 | If Sir Geoffrey were to ask you to carry on for a bit longer , would you be willing to do so ? " |
| 3 | ‘ It all seemed to go on for a long time , but it must have been just a few seconds . ’ |
| 4 | It seemed to go on for a long time . |
| 5 | To go on for a long time doing better and better exhibitions . |
| 6 | It seemed to go on for a very long time . |
| 7 | Colleagues , it 's approximately four twenty five , what I propose to do is to go on for a short period and to take in the resolutions on the , on your erm Maastricht erm and then we 'll have a look at the time , but I think we should be able to get those in within a , a relatively short period of time . |
| 8 | ‘ It seemed to go on for an awfully long time . |
| 9 | At first it was like leaning into a thick , inert sponge , and that seemed to go on for an age . |
| 10 | Yes if she 's coming out you mean you do n't , you do n't have to do it all tonight she wan might want to be talking about erm her grading a lot so you ca n't expect her to do any work until she 's got that out of her system she might want to go on for an hour or so . |
| 11 | It is usually noticeable that when a masochist has for years felt hard done by , often over-controlled by their partner , and then for some reason the tables are turned , he or she metes out punishment as if this has to go on for the same length of time that the masochist 's suffering was endured . |
| 12 | Started as they meant to go on for the holiday . |
| 13 | Born in Cuba to a German-Jewish father and a black mother — ‘ I was sort of kosher , but swinging ’ — he cut sugar-cane in his youth before joining his father , a ship 's steward , on his travels , only to be accidentally left behind on Crete at 12 : ‘ I had to sit down for a minute — almost cried . ’ |
| 14 | It may also be useful in case the patient becomes unexpectedly tired , and needs to sit down for a moment . |
| 15 | You have to sit down for a minute — |
| 16 | When he was able to sit down for a brief breather , he received a telephone call from control saying that some twenty young bullocks had got loose on the railway line heading in his direction and would he keep a look out , with the thought that trains and cattle do not mix . |
| 17 | I needed to sit down for a minute . |
| 18 | Dosh — I was pretty sure it was Dosh — and I danced some and she finished off the Kümmel , which meant we then had to sit down for a while near the window , where some scatter cushions had been laid . |
| 19 | Because when you do run across the road , you get to the other side , and you 're thinking , good gracious , that was a close shave , I 'll have to sit down for a minute , I think I 'll have a cup of coffee or something . |
| 20 | so we had to sit down for a while . |
| 21 | I 'd like to go in for a bit , but there 's loads of people in there and I ai n't got no washing to do . |
| 22 | Firemen were called to the river Taff in Llandaff to rescue Eric , a 10-stone Irish Wolfhound who had got into deep water after deciding to go in for a swim . |
| 23 | ‘ The players have to be prepared to put themselves into dangerous positions , to go in for a hard tackle , be brave and take the blows . |
| 24 | It 's easier for you to experiment to see how it works than for me to go in for a detailed but boring explanation . |
| 25 | One of my other SCOTTISH OFFICE contacts has asked me to go in for a sandwich lunch on Wednesday ( 25th ) , which is kind . |
| 26 | You need the permission of the owner to go in for a title search so you 'd have to know the owner first . |
| 27 | She had been accepted for the job at Ardis & Co , looking the way she normally looked , but if to keep her job — and she had no idea at that stage whether there was a Vasey junior , or similar , at G Vasey Ltd — she had to go in for a bit of de glamorisation , then so be it . |
| 28 | The National Lottery will be the enemy of proper planning in all areas ; it will encourage short-term thinking , and it will be the perfect excuse for the Treasury to go in for the kind of sleight-of-hand just described . |
| 29 | Like a car needs to go in for the M O T , you 've got ta |
| 30 | I mean given that you 've got a , oh I do n't know , a pound you 're going to spend a week in gambling entertainment , if I could put it that way , you 'd do better to go in for the pools , because if you did have a win you might have a big one , than to put it on a horse — am I right ? |