Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the past few years , they have continued to perform successfully for this club even though they did n't know whether they would end up having their wages paid . |
| 2 | Over the past few years , they have continued to perform successfully for this club even though they did n't know whether they would end up having their wages paid . |
| 3 | Immigration laws inherited from the former East German state , which were due to expire on January 1st , are being allowed to carry on for Soviet Jews arriving in Berlin . |
| 4 | You should be feeling slimmer this morning , and it should encourage you to carry on for another day . |
| 5 | Well , they 're in detailed discussions , and negotiations are likely to go on for some hours . |
| 6 | Well I think the consideration and the research has got to go on for some time . |
| 7 | Normally , the time is fifteen minutes , and for fifteen minutes it 's five fifty , so if you 've got a lot of hair , it 's quite coarse , it 's going to go on for several months . |
| 8 | to sit down for five minutes after the tea , no the other one was , is that the biggest one ? , thanks , there you are |
| 9 | So I 've got time to sit down for five minutes before we go out ai n't I ? |
| 10 | And David Lee , spokesman for the Football Supporters ' Association said : ‘ We have asked the PFA to support the protest by asking their members to sit down for one minute on Saturday . ’ |
| 11 | I need to sit down for three minutes or , me back 'll snap in two . |
| 12 | Are you coming to sit down for this meal ? |
| 13 | Winsor & and ; Newton will be creating six ‘ mini studios ’ , each one dedicated to a different medium , where you will be able to sit down for 20 minutes and try out the materials whilst getting expert tuition in a small group . |
| 14 | Winsor & and ; Newton will be creating six ‘ mini studios ’ , each one dedicated to a different medium , where you will be able to sit down for 20 minutes and try out the materials whilst getting expert tuition in a small group . |
| 15 | Gooch , manager Keith Fletcher and England chairman Ted Dexter all praised the Whittingdale sponsorship which has allowed them to gather together for two days in each of the last six weeks . |
| 16 | The new guidelines will tell the police to give no more than two cautions , except in rare circumstances , and to caution only for minor offences . |
| 17 | When the band is removed from the machine there will be two ends of yarn to sew in for each buttonhole . |
| 18 | And through them all does there not run a consistency of effort to strengthen the ties of monastic life , to bring back those in error , to wait patiently for better times , while occupying his time with theological work , with preaching and counselling the erring , for whom he displays an affectionate concern — even for the king . |
| 19 | The precise circumstances of the birth of the Universe , perhaps some 15 billion years ago , are still a mystery — and are likely to remain so for many years . |
| 20 | With their creation , the institutional pattern is settled and seems likely to remain so for some years to come . |
| 21 | ‘ The real singer of that name was indisposed , and was likely to remain so for some time . |
| 22 | ‘ Cider is a good area at the moment , ’ says co-author Philip Shaw , ‘ and is likely to remain so for some time . |
| 23 | It concluded that the Simonian concept of state medicine was far in advance of public opinion and was likely to remain so for some time to come . |
| 24 | I voted for this government because they said they were n't going to go in for that sort of rubbish . |
| 25 | At home he decided to go in for wholesale enclosures , encouraged his tenants to take long leases by reducing their rents , and instructed them in modern scientific methods . |
| 26 | Yes , Americans , erm I have the impression , they 're being rather slow to go in for this sort of Federal legislation . |
| 27 | New York drug dealers seem to go in for sophisticated marketing ploys . |
| 28 | You set the a great egg race type topic to work on for three weeks . |
| 29 | There had been no handkerchieves for him to work on for several days and there was not very much to eat for dinner . |
| 30 | It is unusual to provide expressly for this contingency and the lease is probably best left silent on this point . |