Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [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 | Given that Scotland has little going for it in the way of geography , nothing special in the natural resources department compared with the seriously oil-rich countries and now a minimal industrial base , he argues that the asset in which we have consistently under-invested is our people . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | So each interviewer goes out hunting for informants who fit into the right boxes — or quotas . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He did n't always recognize the president 's authority , there 's a wonderful , there 's a wonderful true story of er er at some point in the Korean war Truman flew out from Los Angeles and MacArthur flew out from er Korea and they met in one of the Pacific islands , I forget which one i er Wake Island I think , and , and on the runway you had the president 's plane at one end and MacArthur 's plane at the other end you see , and Truman sits there waiting for MacArthur to come to him and MacArthur sits there waiting for the president to come to him , you see , and nobody moves . |
| 12 | He did n't always recognize the president 's authority , there 's a wonderful , there 's a wonderful true story of er er at some point in the Korean war Truman flew out from Los Angeles and MacArthur flew out from er Korea and they met in one of the Pacific islands , I forget which one i er Wake Island I think , and , and on the runway you had the president 's plane at one end and MacArthur 's plane at the other end you see , and Truman sits there waiting for MacArthur to come to him and MacArthur sits there waiting for the president to come to him , you see , and nobody moves . |
| 13 | Commitment to the health service means constantly striving for better ways forward . |
| 14 | Sometimes that means not looking for the obvious , adds Mr Pilkington , who is also a real ale connoisseur and member of CAMRA . |
| 15 | But if , if I stay here it means that we 've , we 've a , a ho a home in the , the base , and he 'll get a transfer back guaranteed transfer back within two or three years , so it means just travelling for for erm you know , that length of time . |
| 16 | He 's been told an operation will help him but says it 's only on condition he gives up smoking for six months . |
| 17 | In other words , given no food choice a cat gives up asking for variety ; given variety it demands more . |
| 18 | The Fellow finished third to Sibton Abbey on unsuitably soft ground in the Hennessy last month , and Doumen ( above ) expects faster going for the £75,000 Boxing Day showpiece . |
| 19 | Milk and meat are both produced economically , and the breed 's smallness enables tight stocking for more efficient land use . |
| 20 | The over-zealous male then realises his mistake , lets him go and carries on searching for a female . |
| 21 | The sacrifice comes in dying for that valued person or thing . |