Example sentences of "[adv prt] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a profession often noted for self-promotion and expediency she had become a trusted friend , hostess and shoulder to lean on for many . |
| 2 | This trade carried on for many years , but as a result of more advantageously located competition , it finally ceased working in about 1930 . |
| 3 | Although this written account is extremely tenuous , patient archaeological excavations that have been going on for many years on Santorin are beginning to reveal a story to rival that of Pompeii . |
| 4 | After this final fatal episode the eruption dragged on for many months , lasting well into 1903 . |
| 5 | On and off for I , 500 years it has been served by a community of canons ; but an eighth-century archbishop implanted monks in its precinct , and the canons failed to depart — so that from that time on for many centuries there were two communities competing for the use of the church , and from about 835 for the golden altar which is one of the supreme glories of Carolingian art . |
| 6 | It is an idea the Pru has been working on for many years , and Mr Lawrence has been at the forefront of the plans . |
| 7 | Though modern readers might wish to repay Mr Ruskin 's ‘ hard work ’ recorded in a 1854 entry , with hard labour , the practice of dismembering books went on for many centuries . |
| 8 | The inquest went on for many days and it had all the appearances of the public inquiry that was to follow . |
| 9 | And they 'd go on for many years with incredible perseverance , believing when they had no reason to believe , when it was crazy for them to believe . |
| 10 | an used to be called metermarism and I say , it 's not a word it 's not a term I 've seen on for many many years and you do n't seen it many erm modern organic texts . |
| 11 | Erm ironically after I wrote erm the letter was typed on Monday erm to Mr Mr the only lights that have been fixed since are the ones at the end of my street and the next street not as I complained about ones on the main road erm there 's an example that 's been going on for many months where a problem , an acknowledged problem of access existed which was the reason for delay but that as I understand it has been overcome some time ago now and it 's still there , this is a group of seven lights together , the lot , erm these lights are still out , they 're not in my ward in fact , they 're just . |
| 12 | He says without it the war would have gone on for many more years . |
| 13 | The main point is to raise money for Christian Aid , and although preparatory work goes on for many months , the 3 weeks during which the Church is used for sorting , and them selling , seem to bring out all the best feelings . |
| 14 | Well I think what came out of it firstly , was thanks to people like you , a tremendous amount of publicity for a problem that is certainly not a new one , one that has been going on for many many years . |
| 15 | A buffet style breakfast is also laid on for all our club Choice clients . |
| 16 | Time moves on for all of us and the next day we were homeward bound , hoping , like Peer Gynt , to return some day . |
| 17 | Right how much should we take out of this just to learn and concentrate on for all of next week ? |
| 18 | Daily assessment has gone on for all these years , with tests occasionally being undertaken — that is a reality . |
| 19 | You keep it on for all that time ? |
| 20 | He would hang on for that . |
| 21 | But trying to classify and understand them will show you a good deal about what is going on for that child . |
| 22 | that that green was n't put on for that competition . |
| 23 | The following Tuesday he was contacted at work to say that the jump was on for that afternoon . |
| 24 | Oh I think so , yeah you would n't purchase the land that it stands on for that now |
| 25 | They have n't put repeat on for that . |
| 26 | the room over really but I mean if you can keep your heating on for that little bit of length of time |
| 27 | So I said well you know , I ca n't just wind it up over the next six months , I said er what I wan na do I said is erm I got ta carry it on for that transit for that Orion till I finished anyway so it 's got ta go another year so I said well what I 'm feeling about doing I said is er just sort of keeping a finger in the pie I said , he said , if I 'd said tomorrow , if I had finished the whole the tomorrow I 've got ta buy a car I can buy it finance so I 'm gon na get no tax relief on the H P I get no depreciation no nothing like that I said so at least if I still self employed I can if I have the sort of two or three vehicles or whatever three , four , five vehicles but I said at least I can have some erm and I can then sort of they would be more utilised , where as I said at the moment we got more vehicles than we really need to keep full capacity so he said yeah , yeah fair enough then . |
| 28 | Everything he did smelt quality , even though he was on for such a short time . ’ |
| 29 | The skill , once learnt , helped make me a little more popular and outgoing at school , where there was a craze on for such things . |
| 30 | One of the frustrations of being in opposition for so long to what is , in effect , a minority Government is having to watch this country go on for such a long time without any energy policy . |