Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [verb] [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are sites where it is not only possible to visit and see the reconstructions , but also to take part in activities simulating the way people lived on that site in the past , or even to live there for several days to get some sort of impression of the way of life . |
| 2 | She would have been locked up in a mental hospital , or alternatively taken off for parapsychological testing and Rachel would have been unforgiving . |
| 3 | Buck rabbits on their own seldom or never go in for serious digging . |
| 4 | The situation was desperate : Holmes was away on a case , and not expected back for some time . |
| 5 | Remove rude jokes and deliberate sexual innuendos , and also watch out for unintended double entendres which might make inebriated members of the audience laugh when you are being serious and sincere . |
| 6 | At festivals she went back home and often stayed away for several days , despite the knowledge that her late return would meet with an endless round of angry curses . |
| 7 | Members of groups , especially those in their formative years , find themselves thrown into unnaturally close contact with one another , squashed together in the backs of uncomfortable vans night after night , obliged to eat , live and even sleep together for much of their time . |
| 8 | Horoscopes were also extremely popular and frequently drawn up for Protestant clergy and laity ; even Queen Elizabeth , the head of the English church , consulted her astrologer before deciding on a date for her coronation . |
| 9 | sometimes they come to Edinburgh and then go away for six months and come back to Glasgow |
| 10 | Erm I er move straight over to er er Graham and then open up for any questions or if anybody wants to say anything from the floor . |
| 11 | Under these schemes , which had first been developed in the 1970s as a means of raising capital from the private sector for new development , for example , on office and shopping complexes ( i.e. as a means of avoiding constraints on capital spending ) , council property was sold on a long lease to another agency and then leased back for shorter periods until the long lease expired . |
| 12 | Film-making involves acting for 10 minutes and then waiting around for two hours . |
| 13 | Provost John Cuningham , as leader of his party in the council of Inverkeithing , was well aware of political realities and accordingly pressed strongly for some support from his patrons , particularly in the case of the well-known John Main . |
| 14 | But it was Beckett who invented bedsit absurdism , and occasionally went in for theatrical fourth-wall busting ( ‘ What is there to keep us here ? ’ |
| 15 | I ai n't going to bloody go to work and come back and bloody sit home for thirty quid . |