Example sentences of "[adv prt] [verb] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few youngsters may go on sniffing for a while — perhaps regularly with their friends . |
| 2 | We went on walking for a while , in silence . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I got some quiet music and sat down to listen for a minute . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | POP mogul Pete Waterman is turning his multi-million empire upside down searching for a spy . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ Folly , I do n't want you to go on looking for a place of your own . |
| 9 | You know , you go on looking for a solution to this difficult problem . |
| 10 | The over-zealous male then realises his mistake , lets him go and carries on searching for a female . |
| 11 | I , I , I , carried on smoking for a number of years after that . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I mean yesterday after I had me dinner I dropped off to sleep for a couple of hours cos |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Eliot goes on to wish for a combination of religious , anthropological , and neurological knowledge as exemplified by Rome , Cambridge , and Harley Street . |
| 16 | ( Norman Mailer gave up smoking for a year and wrote not one word in that time . ) |
| 17 | And although scores of people turned up looking for a pet , new waifs were being brought in almost as quickly . |
| 18 | If you 've just done a 12-mile ridge-walk then I 'm sure nothing will be further from your thoughts , but if you plan a weekend away with a person you 've fancied for ages and somehow end up heading for a bothy , unless you are totally alone any thought of a fumble in the sleeping-bag should be out of the question . |
| 19 | Probably , you will end up paying for a remix . |
| 20 | Sports reporting certainly had its difficulties for the live commentator , who might be held up to ridicule for a lapse of sense or grammar in the heat of the moment . |
| 21 | Two trade bodies were set up to press for a system of price fixing : the Associated Booksellers of Great Britain and Ireland in 1895 and the Publishers Association in 1896 . |
| 22 | They took up flying for a hobby and say all you need is courage and a taste for adventure . |
| 23 | ‘ And Gabby turned out to be particularly good , which saved him from having to do the usual terrible , crap jobs that the Hawaiians had to do , and he ended up playing for a living in just about every joint in Hawaii — and there were lots of them in those days , because live music was a big thing . |
| 24 | Will the Salters ' chemistry A-level syllabus form a reasonable basis for those students going on to read for a chemistry degree at university or polytechnic ? |
| 25 | The other dhāmis carry on dancing for a while and then their gods go too . |
| 26 | ‘ It is time for Drew to go back to work for a living , ’ said his manager . |
| 27 | Well , the sun is out and so I 'm off out to sunbathe for a while , if I can get past the Ed that is . |
| 28 | If you say , ‘ I wo n't let you go to any parties ’ or ‘ You ca n't go out to play for a week ’ you will probably reconsider when you cool down , change your mind and thus lose credibility . |
| 29 | In the big race … the womens championships … the favourite Andrea Whitcombe who was out to win for a record equalling third year in a row was beaten in to second place by Lisa York of Leicester … they raced for nearly four miles and at the finish there was just three seconds between them |
| 30 | One evening Friday went out to look for a turtle for meat and eggs . |