Example sentences of "[adv prt] for [det] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How could they get women to sign on for such a life ? ’ |
| 2 | After entering the wood keep straight on for half a mile . |
| 3 | ‘ You just keep on for half a mile or so and 't is up on your left . |
| 4 | Although one character does get to chunter on for half a page about how the real point of fund-raising is its feelgood side effects ( get-away ! ) , there is really no satirical content here at all : the real point of the book is that it features loads and loads of cartoon rumpy-pumpy : randy housewives and naughty underwear , haystacks and giant inflatable condoms , improbable sexual positions and unlikely transvestites . |
| 5 | Cameron raked on for half an hour , making loose heaps up the middle of the field . |
| 6 | The thing went on for half an hour at least . |
| 7 | If the Government want to fetch every one of those issues to the Floor of the House , I am quite prepared to do exactly the same , and every day we shall have points of order that go on for half an hour — |
| 8 | The conversation carried on for half an hour and then they parted company as she went to work and he went off to his job . |
| 9 | Olwen has hers on for half an hour of a morning , Joe puts it on at half eight and dead on nine o'clock that immersion 's turned off . |
| 10 | But you 've got ta have it on for half an hour have n't we Scott ? |
| 11 | The Golden Girls on for half an hour . |
| 12 | Gentlemen , it occurs to us that you 're going , we 're going to be waffling on for half an hour plus , in a sense . |
| 13 | It was a quiet time and I would sit these fellows down for half an hour and take them through what they were doing . |
| 14 | Sit down for half an hour and anybody can do it . |
| 15 | Sit down for half an hour and anybody can do it . |
| 16 | I 'm not , I 've been sitting down for half an hour . |
| 17 | Why do n't you go and lie down for half an hour ? |
| 18 | I know what I need , to put my head down for half an hour this afternoon I wo n't be fit for nothing the night . |
| 19 | It was typical of Benjamin James , as it happens , to go in for such a touch of harmless sycophancy to please his friend the vicar ; he had very soon become , as we might have guessed , a respectable pillar of the Curry Rivel establishment . |
| 20 | send you these things , I go in for all the competitions and I never put a stamp on the envelope unless I 'm ordering something |
| 21 | But it was before they went in for all the cryptonyms and digraphs and five-letter codes because that 's what computers like … ’ |
| 22 | ‘ There are least three shops in Norwich I really like , and I tend to ring them in advance and say ‘ I 'm coming in for half an hour . |
| 23 | There was a mini-rebellion about that just after the Police Strike and then they allowed policemen to go in for half an hour 's and eat breakfast . |
| 24 | Celia , having taken an extra sleeping-pill on his insistence , did not wake , and he himself dozed off for half an hour . |
| 25 | The Yard said the area around the police station was sealed off for half an hour while the package was examined . |
| 26 | But we stopped off for half an hour as well . |
| 27 | And for soon after that me father had to give up the mine be because of his health and he went to work at the depot er were the bus depot and he worked in the battery house where they made all the batteries up , charged the batteries for the buses , looked after the electrical side there was electrician , he were n't , me father were n't electrician but he was working with electrician but his main job was charging the batteries , putting them on in groups in the , in the er battery house and charging house , to keep all the batteries charged up for all the buses petrol buses tr and trolley buses . |
| 28 | It made up for all the poverty and hardship they had suffered , and planted a new , fierce determination in her to make her way in the world , to marry well and make up for all the injustice they had suffered because of her Uncle Harry . |
| 29 | The money ca n't make up for all the misery I went through . ’ |
| 30 | HEARTS ' John Robertson yesterday spoke up for all the members of Scotland 's impromptu squad to face Germany when he railed against any suggestion that the side who will tonight take on the world champions at Ibrox is made up of ‘ second class citizens ’ . |