Example sentences of "goes [adv prt] for a " in BNC.

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1 The enjoyment of gross physical activity goes on for a long time , progressing to skipping and rushing-about games .
2 It goes on for a minute .
3 THE WORLD HAS stopped making sense again , and Odilo forgets everything again ( which is probably just as well ) , and the war is over now ( and it seems pretty clear to me that we lost it ) , and life goes on for a little while .
4 Meanwhile the search goes on for a scientific breakthrough .
5 The Parks tournament at Calderstones Park , which starts on July 19 and goes on for a week , will have the added bonus of the Dunlop tennis roadshow , with Castle and other leading coaches topping the bill .
6 You know , the computer goes down for a hour , it 's three-quarters of the day to get everything back and validated , and that 's a major interruption .
7 He goes in for a sort of hall-of-mirrors self-impersonation , telling people how he would have done the murder if he had done it ( which he has ) .
8 Caird also goes in for a few unnecessary stunts , such as having two of the ladies of the town played by men in drag .
9 Chris , tall , lithe and manly , strips off and goes in for a swim in his panda-briefs .
10 Everyone goes in for a little enhancement , one way or another .
11 Yeah , and if goes in for a pint he gives you a packet now .
12 A packet now , goes in for a pint .
13 The laibon goes off for a moment and returns wearing his cloak as the old lady produces some stools .
14 Nosey parkering round the piles of recently acquired books while her hostess goes off for a pee , she announces on Rainbow 's return — ‘ I was right .
15 So we sort of switched all around now , so she eats with us at half past six stroke seven , goes up for a bath at seven thirty , eight o'clock and she 's in bed by nine , then she , she 's usually asleep by half past ten , but eh , it seems to have cured the problem we had with her , wanting , wanting me all the time , after she 's gone to bed .
16 The next morning he goes out for a walk round the town .
17 when she goes out for a meal she 's got a problem , now if that was me I 'd be having loads of big ones
18 A very young kid goes out for a walk with his parents he 's only ever seen cats and dogs before they go
19 It goes back for a hundred years or more .
20 Well really when I had the same thing , you know , and goes back for a little bit this morning and er same sort of thing .
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