Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [verb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Folly , I do n't want you to go on looking for a place of your own . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | After a while I sat down in a secret place by the Cherwell and fell to musing about how I had once myself aspired to Oxford , how one of my lecturers at Edinburgh had urged me to go on to read for a B.Litt. there , but of course the war had put an end to any such ambitions . |
| 4 | If she 'd been staying on the boat for any length of time it would have been necessary to find somewhere to go for a shower or a bath , but it did n't look as if that particular problem would arise . |
| 5 | The best place to go like to go for a wee dance , the only place you could go for a wee da , that 's the . |
| 6 | ‘ It is time for Drew to go back to work for a living , ’ said his manager . |
| 7 | Some policies will also include eventualities like job loss or having to stay home to care for a sick relative . |
| 8 | Dad would go out very early each morning , without even a cup of tea inside him , to tramp round looking for a job — anything to tide us over . |