Example sentences of "[adv prt] [to-vb] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gilgamesh went on to search for the secret of immortality and according to the legend he almost succeeded . |
| 2 | He thought of sitting down to wait for a break in the storm but that could have been all night so he struggled on downhill , angling a little to the left , until he met the treeline at the bottom of the meadow . |
| 3 | She put a red plastic bowl on the refrigerator floor and sat down to wait for the ice to melt . |
| 4 | I got some quiet music and sat down to listen for a minute . |
| 5 | And Mum and Dad are going off on holiday on Saturday , so they wo n't be popping in to visit for a couple of weeks . ’ |
| 6 | Imagine you 're throwing a party , and you can have any musicians , past or present , along to play for the night — who would you choose ? |
| 7 | I thought that if I took him down to paddle for a while , it would cool him down and distract him , so he would be able to sleep . |
| 8 | Uncle Mick found it difficult getting down to kneel for the Consecration . |
| 9 | I mean yesterday after I had me dinner I dropped off to sleep for a couple of hours cos |
| 10 | Harry Fry , John Ross and Jimmy Rutherford , ordinary Scots who went off to fight for a cause in Spain and who were not to return . |
| 11 | Willis and four men were whisked off to jail for the night and released on bail . |
| 12 | Eliot goes on to wish for a combination of religious , anthropological , and neurological knowledge as exemplified by Rome , Cambridge , and Harley Street . |
| 13 | Marketing chief Peter Sadler was unavailable to comment on the launch plans , but it is thought four agencies have been lined up to pitch for the business . |
| 14 | Sports reporting certainly had its difficulties for the live commentator , who might be held up to ridicule for a lapse of sense or grammar in the heat of the moment . |
| 15 | Petruchio 's servants , speaking prose among themselves , go up to verse for the entry of their master returning with his bride ( Taming of the Shrew , IV.i.120 ) , as do Valentine and Viola on the entry of their master , Orsino ( Twelfth Night , I.iv.9 ) . |
| 16 | A committee has now been set up to lobby for the restoration of the medieval paving and an invitation has been issued to the public to show its support by sponsoring a brick at L10,000 a time ( see The Art Newspaper No. 16 , March 1992 , p. 13 ) . |
| 17 | Two trade bodies were set up to press for a system of price fixing : the Associated Booksellers of Great Britain and Ireland in 1895 and the Publishers Association in 1896 . |
| 18 | Over 100 members turned up to compete for the honour of representing Limerick Area in the National Finals in Belfast . |
| 19 | BURIAL costs in Middlesbrough are going up to pay for the installation of cameras in flats overlooking cemeteries . |
| 20 | I phoned up and I got phone up to ask for the information right ? |
| 21 | Now it will go on to compete for the title of best pig in Britain . |
| 22 | Will the Salters ' chemistry A-level syllabus form a reasonable basis for those students going on to read for a chemistry degree at university or polytechnic ? |
| 23 | ‘ It is time for Drew to go back to work for a living , ’ said his manager . |
| 24 | Well , the sun is out and so I 'm off out to sunbathe for a while , if I can get past the Ed that is . |
| 25 | If you say , ‘ I wo n't let you go to any parties ’ or ‘ You ca n't go out to play for a week ’ you will probably reconsider when you cool down , change your mind and thus lose credibility . |
| 26 | In the big race … the womens championships … the favourite Andrea Whitcombe who was out to win for a record equalling third year in a row was beaten in to second place by Lisa York of Leicester … they raced for nearly four miles and at the finish there was just three seconds between them |
| 27 | One evening Friday went out to look for a turtle for meat and eggs . |
| 28 | There is no choice but to analyse your own needs and be honest with yourself , weighing up one ‘ want ’ against another , before you actually set out to look for a place to live . |
| 29 | I hope they do what they set out to do for the sake of the people of West Belfast . |
| 30 | They won 61% of the vote for Congress in March , but only 27% in December ( when far fewer people turned out to vote for the assembly ) . |