Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [v-ing] [noun] for " in BNC.

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1 The upward spiral on which film budgets were set suggests that Rank might have had to go on losing money for a long time before hitting on a way to achieve a steady supply of sellable films .
2 When they lock the man up with Jim and John and Henry and Mary and Dolores and Grace — I hope they will give him access to books , with paper enough for him to go on making translations for us from the classics such as we have never seen except at his hands in our language .
3 Normally the appeals committee , based in Geneva , sits on Saturday but Copenhagen are anxious to sort out travelling arrangements for Belfast and Thursday afternoon is the new time .
4 It explains how to go about adjusting LIFESPAN for a particular application : for example , allocating the resources and privileges of the LIFESPAN accounts .
5 Not all have to go round selling clothes-pegs for a crust of bread .
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