Example sentences of "[adv prt] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Hers is perhaps a 30 year plan , a code that will keep her name in neon until her teenage fans are getting on for grandparenthood and Madonna is another has-been . |
| 32 | TURN ON FOR LOVE |
| 33 | Boil eggs and decorate them with paints and put tufts of wool on for hair . |
| 34 | The show always goes on for Shirley |
| 35 | She heard his voice downstairs , talking in the rather affected boom he put on for strangers . |
| 36 | Phone Welsh National Opera Marketing on for brochure , or book direct with the theatre . |
| 37 | Dyslexic boy fights on for compensation |
| 38 | MP vows to fight on for BCCI victims |
| 39 | The street goes on for ages , but it 's pretty interesting . |
| 40 | Yeah , I mean it 's been going on for ages |
| 41 | My daughter 's been trying to get on for ages . |
| 42 | I hung on for ages . ’ |
| 43 | And it bounced and bounced and bounced and I thought it was going on for ages but it did n't . |
| 44 | Do you know it is , it 's a little tiny but it 's going on for ages and ages . |
| 45 | Do you know I if you ask Andrea about it , anything she 'll probably go on for ages , and ages , and ages , and ages ! |
| 46 | Must of been on one of the other computers and er it went on for ages and it was you know it 's was irritating more than anything ! |
| 47 | We have n't had the computer on for ages have we ? |
| 48 | No , I could tell you a really boring joke that goes on for ages . |
| 49 | And the piss was going on for ages . |
| 50 | not been on for ages . |
| 51 | Being left to hold on for ages and ages . |
| 52 | The gap seems to be widening between Serbs who want to fight on for Greater Serbia , now , and those who think that goal must be postponed . |
| 53 | Erm the housing need figure we 've been working on for Greater York has been nine thousand seven hundred and that 's been based on the parishes within the Greater York study area . |
| 54 | There were a lot of French-Canadian soldiers stationed in the area , together with British and Americans , and a weekly film show was put on for all-comers in the Methodist chapel on Saturday nights . |
| 55 | The , they used to put a conductor on for peak time and then about nine o'clock the rear door was closed and the driver took over issuing tickets , taking money and then perhaps the conductor would come on from about twelve or two and then again , perhaps from half past four till half past six . |
| 56 | The rains carried on for Music at Oxford 's other major event , the Radley Fireworks . |
| 57 | Indeed , apart from workers in holiday camps who , because they are taken on for periods expected to be in excess of 13 weeks , qualify for statutory sickness pay , most seasonal workers are not entitled to any income replacement in case of absence . |
| 58 | Judy Little , human resources director of Longman and chairwoman of the Publishing Qualifications Board , announced that increasing numbers of publishers were signing on for NVQs . |
| 59 | After the deluge , life goes on for trout |
| 60 | I do have a question and , and it has n't made , that has n't made it particularly clear as to where we are , you hinted that , and I think that was also seconded here that there might now be a post of some kind to carry on for instance the thing that I 'm particularly worried about is that there 's a sort of hiatus in the heartbeat awards , which I think would be a tragedy if that happened , and I want to be absolutely sure that that is , is n't so . |