Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] for [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now a huge one awaited him , liberals looking for expression , eager literati to put in sculpture , worn-out hippies , anyone who wanted to see right done for once . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Yasmin is expecting another child in the autumn and , although she will have to make some difficult decisions about whether or not to continue with her career after the baby is born , she is still determined to carry on working for as long as she can . |
| 4 | Give what I hope is curt nod , though double chins seem to go on flapping for ever . |
| 5 | ‘ I said when I came to Pittodrie that I wanted to go on playing for as long as possible , ’ Aitken said afterwards . |
| 6 | The result is that in 1981 the cores and rings together accounted for nearly 9 out of 10 of the British population . |
| 7 | ‘ How can we just throw in a lad who has not played for so long ? |
| 8 | What about Democratic hopeful Paul Tsongas 's lymphoma cancer which has not recurred for over five years ? |
| 9 | A MYSTERY man who has not spoken for almost a week broke his silence yesterday to Darlington police . |
| 10 | The view that certain types of fiction occupy a mediatory position between the ‘ reality ’ of a cultural heritage and contemporary ‘ true ’ accounts of it elevates these texts to a status which the novel has not held for quite some time . |
| 11 | Chrissie is not protected to the same extent because she has not worked for long enough , and there may be grounds for dismissal . |
| 12 | Heat the frankfurters by leaving them to stand in a pan of water that has just boiled for about 5 minutes . |
| 13 | Now , suddenly , in the affluent West , that world has possibly gone for ever . |
| 14 | Among the largest and most fully-studied lake systems , Lake Bonney in the Dry Valleys of South Victoria Land has probably existed for over 100 000 years ( Hendy et al . , |
| 15 | But , when Nigel comes next year he 'll bring Eileen and I think that under circumstances I think if we say well come for about quarter to two . |
| 16 | Dear Catriona I could guess you probably worked this out a long time ago but I might as well get it over with once and for all and I finally managed to summon up the courage to do so , A S A , a secret admirer , no longer exists , he no longer admires secret or otherwise and has n't existed for almost a year now and again you probably know who he is but I might as well tell you it 's me Johnny the eleven year old , now fourteen , you met at Christmas ninety and boy do I feel stupid . |
| 17 | His wife Jennifer said : ‘ He is finding he can do things he has n't done for so long . |
| 18 | I 've never seen him like this though , I 've never se he has n't shaved for about four days . |
| 19 | One can expand the boundaries , and because it is the sentiment of the people that one should expand the boundaries , it has manifestly worked for nearly two centuries in the United Kingdom . |
| 20 | The secret which Carol has faithfully kept for more than four months was finally out yesterday as Commander Tim Laurence and his bride-to-be allowed her to claim the credit she deserves . |
| 21 | Mick Jagger and Gary Lineker are two other role models who hold little appeal for sexually inactive men . |
| 22 | Basically he 'd over indulged for too many years , to the point here even he realised he 'd gone too far . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ So you 'd best live for ever , had n't you ? … |
| 24 | All he owned were the clothes on his back and a few cassettes which I 'd partly paid for anyway . |
| 25 | His last memory was of a rather half-hearted dawn chorus outside the grey windows , so he 'd probably slept for about two hours . |
| 26 | She came here looking for somewhere to live . |
| 27 | I go and wait about for a min , half a sec , ha , you know just wait for about ten seconds I 've forgotten what I 'm supposed to say wha , can you remind you ? |
| 28 | It can not be forgotten or surpassed though gone for ever . |
| 29 | In the process , it discovered such homes often provided better care for seriously mentally frail elderly people than local authority accommodation . |
| 30 | It 's nice , I suppose please come for please I do n't like that . |