Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv prt] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ It will make up for the dismal showing of the England football and cricket teams , lift some of the sporting gloom . |
| 32 | Arguments about this change continue to rage , and will probably burn on for the foreseeable future . |
| 33 | 45133 and 50015 will then move on for a short period to the North Yorkshire Moors Railway before returning to Butterley . |
| 34 | If they are unusually anxious or irritated , they may find the noise just too much to deal with and stalk off in a feline sulk rather than squat down for a good meal . |
| 35 | On employment , the Labour party would sign up for a massive extension of Community competence and majority voting in the name of the social charter . |
| 36 | The disk will whizz around for a few seconds , and then you get the rows of statistics . |
| 37 | She would twitter on for a few sentences to get everyone else to give their opinions , then make a decision . |
| 38 | The last I heard Trish was going to become a teacher , I mean I I we are supposed to be trying to think about whether we can have a sh a panel that we of people that we can call on for the short term crisis appointments or whatever , but |
| 39 | Often the Phantasms — daemon-masked , each dabbed with different costly scents , and gowned in luminous silk appliquéd with lascivious emblems — would bomb around the broad upper avenues on their jet-trikes , and through almost deserted midnight malls , seeking stylised mayhem with another brat gang or hunting for an odour bar or an elegant brothel which they could take over for a few hours before fleeing just ahead of a Judge patrol . |
| 40 | We could also decide on points where the accompaniment could take over for a brief period , or perhaps form a dialogue with the melody . |
| 41 | Together with a partner , one lucky reader will jet off for a luxury £600 Paris weekend . |
| 42 | It could go on for a long time in this condition , like the Spanish Empire in its centuries of decline . |
| 43 | History shows it can go on for a long time , as deficits and surpluses did during the golden age before the First World War . |
| 44 | The list could go on for a long time . |
| 45 | This is another list that could go on for a long time . |
| 46 | The argument will go on for a long time . |
| 47 | I could go on for a long time in praise of Maxwell . |
| 48 | But er I could er I I could go on for a long time on that subject but time 's short dear , |
| 49 | Well that practice did go on for a long number of years where the the riveter was the was the boss of the squad and on the Friday night , when er where it came knocking off time , he would collect the wages and he would divide that up between the squad which would be , a holder-on , a rivet boy , er maybe a putter-in , er again in my time , that was mostly a squad . |
| 50 | It will go on for a long time but lost it is already . ’ |
| 51 | I can go on for a few more days . |
| 52 | The way things are , you might struggle on for a few months . |
| 53 | The extension of the theatre of war to south-eastern Europe had , despite the German triumph , led to increased concern that the war could now drag on for a long time . |
| 54 | This had been of something more than philosophical interest to Karen and I in our pre-coital phase , since it meant that we could count on at least a minute thirty seconds before he reappeared , or as much as three minutes forty-five seconds if we heard the seat go down for a big jobby . |
| 55 | if I won bigger money , I should go in for a new house , which would be built to our own idea , so that we could get a bigger scullery … . |
| 56 | So then I decided I would like to be that I knew there was a job going on the electricians , so I thought well I 'll I 'll go in for the electrical side . |
| 57 | But perhaps I give that impression because I have strong views on certain subjects and because I do n't go in for the social whirl , for fast cars and fast women . ’ |
| 58 | There will be video feedback too , and those who feel up to it can go in for the local skischool giant slalom race . |
| 59 | Once a celebrity has agreed to be a guest , the researcher assigned to him or her will go along for an exploratory conversation . |
| 60 | A clenched fist , a frosty stare or a head-thrust , feet-planted , arms-akimbo posture , being recognizable as proper parts or adjuncts to acts of real violence , can stand in for the real thing in the ritualized ‘ aggression ’ to be described in a later chapter of this book . |