Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the past few years , they have continued to perform successfully for this club even though they did n't know whether they would end up having their wages paid . |
| 2 | Over the past few years , they have continued to perform successfully for this club even though they did n't know whether they would end up having their wages paid . |
| 3 | You should be feeling slimmer this morning , and it should encourage you to carry on for another day . |
| 4 | Well I think the consideration and the research has got to go on for some time . |
| 5 | Well , they 're in detailed discussions , and negotiations are likely to go on for some hours . |
| 6 | As I said in an earlier chapter , the principle of speaking is not to go on for more than a few minutes without getting your audience to do something — applaud or laugh or raise their hands . |
| 7 | He cleaned up his act , quit taking uppers and downers with the help of his wife and the Betty Ford Clinic , and now looks set to go on for another 40 years . |
| 8 | The slump is likely to go on for another two years . |
| 9 | He 's got to go on for another ten lines , piling on more and more out of the way references to classical paradises so that he can give it all away for God . |
| 10 | Normally , the time is fifteen minutes , and for fifteen minutes it 's five fifty , so if you 've got a lot of hair , it 's quite coarse , it 's going to go on for several months . |
| 11 | Are you coming to sit down for this meal ? |
| 12 | When the band is removed from the machine there will be two ends of yarn to sew in for each buttonhole . |
| 13 | The precise circumstances of the birth of the Universe , perhaps some 15 billion years ago , are still a mystery — and are likely to remain so for many years . |
| 14 | Yet affairs which , perhaps , appeared to be progressing well enough were not to remain so for many more years . |
| 15 | ‘ The real singer of that name was indisposed , and was likely to remain so for some time . |
| 16 | ‘ Cider is a good area at the moment , ’ says co-author Philip Shaw , ‘ and is likely to remain so for some time . |
| 17 | It concluded that the Simonian concept of state medicine was far in advance of public opinion and was likely to remain so for some time to come . |
| 18 | With their creation , the institutional pattern is settled and seems likely to remain so for some years to come . |
| 19 | I voted for this government because they said they were n't going to go in for that sort of rubbish . |
| 20 | So I , I mean , I 've got to go in for that . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Yes , Americans , erm I have the impression , they 're being rather slow to go in for this sort of Federal legislation . |
| 23 | In that way , we would increase national expenditure on training and the Secretary of State would not have to go in for these dictatorial measures . |
| 24 | ‘ The bright child who might possibly get nine GCSEs is going to be pushed to go in for more and more . |
| 25 | Was there ever a time when you had to go in for more drastic measures ? |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | She was to travel the twenty miles by train , into the city , and they were to meet , in the restaurant of Marshall and Snelgrove , to have coffee and talk , to shop together for this and that , a new spring suit , some curtain material , a lampshade and the Ceylon tea nobody would stock in the village , and back for lunch , and then for tea , with aching feet and happy conversation , until their trains home . |
| 28 | There had been no handkerchieves for him to work on for several days and there was not very much to eat for dinner . |
| 29 | It is unusual to provide expressly for this contingency and the lease is probably best left silent on this point . |
| 30 | Balbinder was always pleased to come along for these sessions , to play with my children 's toys and run in the garden . |