Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv] for [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ As Candy would no doubt tell you , anything that stays still for too long around here gets painted or wallpapered . ’ |
| 2 | Hence , although this project will document both what employers do now on training and plan to do over the medium-term future , the inquiry has an intent which is ‘ educative ’ rather than aiming merely for either purely ‘ descriptive ’ or ‘ prescriptive ’ results . |
| 3 | The primary consideration should be to select an analytical laboratory where there is a formal , statistically based AQC system ; one that operates routinely for exactly the type of analysis we require . |
| 4 | This was the beginning of a protest that lasted continually for over five months . |
| 5 | In those days , scarlet fever victims had to go to the Isolation Hospital just outside the town , and remain there for about six weeks , until all the affected skin had peeled off . |
| 6 | Bring to the boil , then lower the heat and simmer gently for about 1½ hours . |
| 7 | He ended up in Nairobi and lived there for quite a long time . |
| 8 | Meanwhile in another pan , melt 50g ( 2oz ) butter and whisk in the flour and cook gently for approx 30 secs . |
| 9 | Add the lamb and cook quickly for about 3 minutes , turning frequently , until evenly browned . |
| 10 | Tom , meanwhile , has binned the thigh-slapping choreography that made him look like an excited primate and opted instead for more engaging shapes akin to those thrown by a boxing kangaroo . |
| 11 | The ascent was arduous and prolonged , twisting and turning upwards for more than twelve kilometres to the pass , almost a thousand metres high . |
| 12 | This competing to be noticed and admired only for how you look is treated and encouraged as normal behaviour in girls . |
| 13 | In nature these fish only come together to reproduce , and stay together for as long as is necessary to raise young . |
| 14 | I 'd go to Tenerife and stay there for ever . |
| 15 | He never realised , on that eventful day , that she would ‘ come into my arms ’ ( as he put it ) and stay there for so many years , adding in no small degree to the legends of love which keep the world sane and hopeful . |
| 16 | Follow rough road to tarmac road , turn right onto it for 400yds to Cold Harbour and turn left for about half a mile until you reach the B3311 . |
| 17 | After circling and playing together for probably a minute , the fins had lazily disappeared and Yanto had gone home a mystified man . |
| 18 | Martha mopped and scraped away for almost half an hour , long after Tilda had lost interest . |
| 19 | People have lived and worked here for about 1000 years . |
| 20 | What Dr Addison has appropriately described as the ‘ Attlee consensus ’ had arrived , and prevailed thereafter for almost a generation . |
| 21 | We pulled into Coventry police station and instead of going to a cafe , as we had hoped , we got shut in one cell and left there for about two hours with the most revolting sandwiches you 've ever seen in your life . |
| 22 | Increase the heat and boil rapidly for about 5-8 minutes until mixture reaches the ‘ soft crack ’ stage ( 290F ) . |
| 23 | Well , we have a duty to draw up the lists , and manage the ballot , and by God we will carry it out and support Sir John , or else there will be madness and misrule here for evermore . |
| 24 | Britain 's higher education system still provides excellent standards of education , but does so for too few people . |