Example sentences of "gone [adv] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Speedy 's lay-off Thomson collides the Forest man Gemmell and the whistle has gone eventually for a free kick to Forest . |
| 2 | I was surprised , for I had lost all count of time and had felt it had gone on for a week . |
| 3 | ‘ What has made it particularly difficult , for manufacturers of all sizes , but most of all for smaller ones , is that it has gone on for a long time . |
| 4 | Both have gone on for a long time . |
| 5 | They had gone on for a long distance , before arriving at a door in a long , anonymous wall ; the letter bearer , a gloomily serious young man with eyebrows which met across his brow , maintaining a severe silence throughout the journey . |
| 6 | He had watched until the night nurse had left the office and now he was as sure as he could be that she had gone below for a meal . |
| 7 | As you may already realise , once again the Almeida has gone in for a lot of posh posturing got up as a drama of social consciousness . |
| 8 | And as often as you tell yourself she 's not your type , that you do n't like blondes , your taste tends towards the browns , even redheads but not blondes , no ; and what 's more , her face is round , but you do n't like round faces ; and you 've always gone in for a bit of shape and she 's flat as a pancake . |
| 9 | Then they 'd gone in for a look . |
| 10 | Well , we 've done that , as we said we would and of course , in a business such as Pearson , which is a people business er , although we regularly monitor employment statistics , such as total employ total number of employees er , revenue per employee , cost per employee , profit per employee , there are times when we have to take er , difficult decisions and er , so we 've gone in for a lot of redundancy , which we 'll see in , in er during the next slide or two . |
| 11 | If I had gone away for a couple of days , I returned expecting almost to have to push the door open but to my amazement , the place was immaculate . |
| 12 | ‘ Your Mummy has gone away for a long time ’ usually only serves to leave the child frightened but feeling the anxiety of the adults all around which forbids further discussion . |
| 13 | After all they had been force-fed about the godliness of the Khomeini regime , here was Reagan as a ‘ man of God ’ ( North 's words ) who had gone away for a ‘ whole weekend ’ to pray about the Frankfurt meeting and had come up all by himself with an inscription for a Bible to be given to the Iranians . |
| 14 | Some fudge the issue by saying that the grandparent has gone away for a little while . |
| 15 | She told him in fact that Dinah had gone away for a day or two , but shortly a letter came . |
| 16 | They 've gone away for a few days . |
| 17 | ‘ Gone away for a time . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ He 's gone away for a while . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Oh — it 's my son — he 's got cystic fibrosis , and my wife 's gone away for a few days with a friend for a break . |
| 20 | He says a boy had gone away for a weekend and had come back to the school with the tablets and then sold them . |
| 21 | It was sent to Alison 's brother , Mark , and implied that she and their father had gone away for a break as both were suffering from depression . |
| 22 | Going back to your earlier point , the , the press do need to have a contact , and it 's very important that the contact is contactable and that , that they have n't gone away for a holiday during the two weeks in which the the thing is an issue . |
| 23 | She 's gone over for a closer look . ’ |
| 24 | BOXER Michael Watson has gone home for a family Christmas to help with his recovery . |
| 25 | It was a small grave , and at its head was a low wooden cross inscribed with his name , date of birth , and date of death ; and as I passed , I had a vision of a little Aberdeen terrier who had gone off for a run by himself , and was now sporting in the fields of Paradise . |
| 26 | Dad 's gone up for a bath . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Gone back for a further inspection , ’ provided a voice out of the gloom . |
| 28 | who were the religious police who were actually watching , so we have n't gone back for a while |
| 29 | She wondered if the others were playing a joke on her : perhaps they 'd gone out for a walk ; perhaps , at this very moment , they were laughing at the thought of her waiting for a killer who would never come . |
| 30 | ‘ Gone on holiday , gone out for a walk … ’ |