Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , as he goes on listening for a few weeks , looking carefully at ever-new pictures of different cases , a tentative understanding will dawn on him ; he will gradually forget about the ribs and begin to see the lungs . |
| 2 | Even when under arrest , Peter goes on caring for others . |
| 3 | John Bowers , an agricultural economist at Leeds University , estimates that they will have to pay double the true ‘ conservation value ’ to protect sites — the rest goes on compensating for lost grants and agricultural subsidies of various kinds . |
| 4 | As soon as one person 's work has been built into the computer , it stays there and goes on working for as long as needed . |
| 5 | Bullied , beaten , criticized , indoctrinated , sent to the countryside and sacked from the newspaper job he loved , Liang Heng 's father goes on working for Communism even after his health is wrecked . |
| 6 | Will Serafin show his independence of mind and his refusal to be controlled by his Civil Servants and reject them all , item by item , so that he ends up discovering for himself the colleagues , procedures and methods that Summerchild has already selected for him ? |
| 7 | So each interviewer goes out hunting for informants who fit into the right boxes — or quotas . |
| 8 | In this case , the researcher decides how many of each category of person should be included in the sample , but then , instead of selecting them at random from a sampling frame , the researcher goes out looking for the right number of people in each category until the quota is filled . |
| 9 | The researcher goes out looking for respondents who conform to the quota requirements , either by knocking on doors or by asking people in the street to participate : it must be stressed that the point is not to interview everyone who happens to live on the street or who happens to pass by , but only those who conform to the quota controls and in the proportions specified . |
| 10 | He 's been told an operation will help him but says it 's only on condition he gives up smoking for six months . |
| 11 | In other words , given no food choice a cat gives up asking for variety ; given variety it demands more . |
| 12 | The over-zealous male then realises his mistake , lets him go and carries on searching for a female . |
| 13 | The sacrifice comes in dying for that valued person or thing . |