Example sentences of "[adv prt] [verb] for [art] [noun] " 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 She went on to work for the Friends ' Committee in France , Austria , Poland , and Greece .
6 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 .
7 She put a red plastic bowl on the refrigerator floor and sat down to wait for the ice to melt .
8 I got some quiet music and sat down to listen for a minute .
9 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 . ’
10 POP mogul Pete Waterman is turning his multi-million empire upside down searching for a spy .
11 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 . ’
12 Went in to look for the seeds so I m I might have changed , just gone , I du n no .
13 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 ?
14 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 .
15 Uncle Mick found it difficult getting down to kneel for the Consecration .
16 ‘ Folly , I do n't want you to go on looking for a place of your own .
17 You know , you go on looking for a solution to this difficult problem .
18 The over-zealous male then realises his mistake , lets him go and carries on searching for a female .
19 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 . ’
20 I , I , I , carried on smoking for a number of years after that .
21 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 .
22 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 ?
23 Novell has no compelling reason ( nor should it have ) to keep on paying for the fuel that burns in the Unix flame .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 The lifeboat then lay off waiting for the tug .
27 I mean yesterday after I had me dinner I dropped off to sleep for a couple of hours cos
28 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 .
29 Willis and four men were whisked off to jail for the night and released on bail .
30 Eliot goes on to wish for a combination of religious , anthropological , and neurological knowledge as exemplified by Rome , Cambridge , and Harley Street .
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