Example sentences of "[adv prt] [to-vb] for " 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 | The Christian should remember that Jesus will not desert his modern-day disciples who may be called on to suffer for their faith ( The Calming of the Storm ) . |
| 3 | The author , David Ottewill , qualified as an architect in the 1950s and went on to work for John Brandon-Jones . |
| 4 | Nick warmed up his caddie career from 1971 to 1974 carrying Archer 's bag , and then moved on to work for Australian Bruce Crampton until 1977 , when he moved on to another Australian , Graham Marsh . |
| 5 | Fred Crocombe went on to work for Boulton Paul Aircraft , and often reflected on how close he came to being one of those many aviator 's lost mysteriously without a trace over the wide expanse of the sea . |
| 6 | She went on to work for the Friends ' Committee in France , Austria , Poland , and Greece . |
| 7 | From this house-painter , he learnt there were other deaf people , and that there was a society in Leeds , so he went along to see for himself . |
| 8 | This Friday Geraldine settled down to wait for Newsnight . |
| 9 | She put a red plastic bowl on the refrigerator floor and sat down to wait for the ice to melt . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They were closely followed by the children who settled down to wait for their treasure trove . |
| 12 | Furious , she sat down to wait for the next vehicle . |
| 13 | He dusted off a box and sat down to wait for them . |
| 14 | Then we all settled down to wait for Madam . |
| 15 | I knew I should go back to the stockade now , but an idea came to me and I sat down to wait for darkness . |
| 16 | His face a mask of puzzlement , Davis sat down to wait for someone to tell him to do something . |
| 17 | In the 1930's , at a time when many potteries closed down to wait for more favourable conditions to return , the fifth Josiah Wedgwood decided to build a new factory . |
| 18 | The area was sealed off , sniffer dogs were called in to search for more explosives and the bags taken to the Metropolitan Police forensic science laboratory for examination . |
| 19 | A police helicopter has been called in to search for an armed robber who 's raided five petrol stations in three weeks . |
| 20 | The welcome 's over … the introductions have been made … today it 's been down to work for Oxford United 's new manager Denis Smith and his assistant Malcolm Crosby … their plan for the first game |
| 21 | The Livingstones and Crichtons did this in 1439 , when they seized James II and then settled down to squabble for the next decade ; the Boyds did the same thing with James III ; and Angus found time , despite his matrimonial problems with Margaret Tudor , to get possession of James V in 1526 and dominate politics for the last two years of the minority . |
| 22 | Paul and Nasey went in to work for you , so they got a wage from the start . ’ |
| 23 | I got some quiet music and sat down to listen for a minute . |
| 24 | 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 . ’ |
| 25 | When western doctors went in to look for thyroid and other illnesses , they could not tell whether the apparent increase they discovered in these things was due to radiation or to the fact that no one had done such a thorough diagnosis before . |
| 26 | They all come in to look for it . |
| 27 | He had gone in to look for adventure , but had found love , he told Lord Henry . |
| 28 | ‘ I went in to look for adventure , but I found love , ’ Dorian told Lord Henry . |
| 29 | Went in to look for the seeds so I m I might have changed , just gone , I du n no . |
| 30 | 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 ? |