Example sentences of "[adv prt] [verb] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gilgamesh went on to search for the secret of immortality and according to the legend he almost succeeded . |
| 2 | A few youngsters may go on sniffing for a while — perhaps regularly with their friends . |
| 3 | We went on walking for a while , in silence . |
| 4 | We go on praying for the release of hostages and prisoners held without a cause ; and we pray for peace , and especially for the peace of Jerusalem . |
| 5 | He thought of sitting down to wait for a break in the storm but that could have been all night so he struggled on downhill , angling a little to the left , until he met the treeline at the bottom of the meadow . |
| 6 | She put a red plastic bowl on the refrigerator floor and sat down to wait for the ice to melt . |
| 7 | I got some quiet music and sat down to listen for a minute . |
| 8 | And Mum and Dad are going off on holiday on Saturday , so they wo n't be popping in to visit for a couple of weeks . ’ |
| 9 | POP mogul Pete Waterman is turning his multi-million empire upside down searching for a spy . |
| 10 | A fuming Jackson said : ‘ I spent 40 minutes walking up and down looking for an official , and later two hours near the control centre , but nothing happened . ’ |
| 11 | Imagine you 're throwing a party , and you can have any musicians , past or present , along to play for the night — who would you choose ? |
| 12 | I thought that if I took him down to paddle for a while , it would cool him down and distract him , so he would be able to sleep . |
| 13 | Uncle Mick found it difficult getting down to kneel for the Consecration . |
| 14 | ‘ Folly , I do n't want you to go on looking for a place of your own . |
| 15 | You know , you go on looking for a solution to this difficult problem . |
| 16 | The over-zealous male then realises his mistake , lets him go and carries on searching for a female . |
| 17 | After all , as Deborah Hutton , health editor of Vogue , put it : ‘ If you 're the sort of person who frowns , even if you do wear these things for an hour while you exercise , you 'll carry on frowning for the rest of the day after you 've taken them off . ’ |
| 18 | I , I , I , carried on smoking for a number of years after that . |
| 19 | It also allows the police and Customs to permit accountants to go on acting for a client after they have disclosed suspicious activity to them . |
| 20 | He 's he 's a quick nimble defender Speedy was just hanging hanging on waiting for the ball to be played into him and I must confess I did n't really see anything afterwards I mean well if you look at that that does n't seem anything untoward does it ? |
| 21 | Novell has no compelling reason ( nor should it have ) to keep on paying for the fuel that burns in the Unix flame . |
| 22 | Strangely , it was decided that a repeat investigation was not required and I was allowed to go on caring for the patient throughout her stay . |
| 23 | Meanwhile , those of you yet to take out a home-loan but thinking of doing so might be better off going for the repayment version where you pay off a little bit of the loan and interest as you go along . |
| 24 | The lifeboat then lay off waiting for the tug . |
| 25 | I mean yesterday after I had me dinner I dropped off to sleep for a couple of hours cos |
| 26 | Harry Fry , John Ross and Jimmy Rutherford , ordinary Scots who went off to fight for a cause in Spain and who were not to return . |
| 27 | Willis and four men were whisked off to jail for the night and released on bail . |
| 28 | Eliot goes on to wish for a combination of religious , anthropological , and neurological knowledge as exemplified by Rome , Cambridge , and Harley Street . |
| 29 | Solution : Give up knitting for the moment . |
| 30 | Marketing chief Peter Sadler was unavailable to comment on the launch plans , but it is thought four agencies have been lined up to pitch for the business . |