Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv prt] [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chairman Russell Nicolson said after two years of downturn ‘ growth has now resumed and will carry on strongly for many years ’ . |
| 2 | In the future , the time may come when we need that land back again for growing food , but if the top-soil has been damaged by development it will be worse than useless . |
| 3 | possibility is that Marilyn would stay up there for another year with Carris you know in their house and Timothy of course and erm , then sort of move down here |
| 4 | ‘ Hopefully I can stay out there for two years or so . |
| 5 | Fair enough I must say I 'd have given it to Whitlow myself but it does n't really matter as far a Leicester fans are concerned as long as they can hold on here for another two minutes now . |
| 6 | Beyond that , we are into the final , open stage of adult or continuing education , which may go on intermittently for many years , compensating for missed opportunities , updating and extending existing skills , or opening up new fields of interest and expertise altogether . |
| 7 | In his notes Fedin writes of his heroine : ‘ She is somehow reconciled , and of course she would never go off anywhere for good . |
| 8 | She would go off alone for long walks over the cliffs — something she had never done before in winter . |
| 9 | ‘ Your father should go back home for some years and take you with him . |
| 10 | You would think that they were — thankfully — drawing to a close , and then they would burst off again for another hour and you found yourself wishing they would just shut up . |
| 11 | ‘ I — I did n't come back just for that , ’ she confessed , looking up into his proud , handsome face . |
| 12 | Trouble was , if he put his head down then he might not wake up again for 24 hours . |