Example sentences of "go [adv] for [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | but of course that does n't leave me much to talk about , becau , however he managed to go on for about ten minutes |
| 2 | That 's why it is expensive compared to eh , other cars , but , they , they seemed to go on for ever those cars , I mean they 're quite incredible are n't they ? |
| 3 | Under the aegis of James Prior , the Department of Employment was unlikely to go in for strongly anti-union policies . |
| 4 | Do you think there 's enough of it in the educational profession , or do you think that one ought to go in for much more evaluation ? |
| 5 | There was too much going on for just one person to deal with . |
| 6 | Her admirer had already been bound over to keep the peace after being arrested on her doorstep , and his unwelcome attentions had been going on for over six years . |
| 7 | Well if she gets here at quarter past seven and three hours is quarter past ten , and she 's supposed to be at the Penny Farthing at nine o'clock , so you know , I , I do n't feel as though we are you know getting erm our money 's worth from her at the moment , erm also erm she told me in the beginning that this was only go on was going on for about six weeks , well it has now been going on for over eight weeks and she now says that erm she does n't know how longer it 's going on for and I think she is just erm stalling us . |
| 8 | The search for Louise Butler had been going on for over two days . |
| 9 | The troubles are going on for over 20 years and the NI Office is doing very little about it , so it could go on for another 20 years . |
| 10 | Investigations into the activities of this particular smuggling gang had been going on for nearly twelve months prior to the climax of Yashmak and were initiated in Sussex . |
| 11 | The affair had been going on for nearly two years . |
| 12 | I 'm actually concerned that if we , did anybody know about this issue earlier on because I think this has been going on for quite some time erm probably over the last two years and if anyone did know then why did n't they address it before and if anyone did n't know , why not ? |
| 13 | It 's going on for quite some time . |
| 14 | It 's been going on for about seventeen months now and the in chief man at Hill House was rather interested to hear that we 'd not actually had it resolved yet , and asked for the reference numbers and . |
| 15 | Well if she gets here at quarter past seven and three hours is quarter past ten , and she 's supposed to be at the Penny Farthing at nine o'clock , so you know , I , I do n't feel as though we are you know getting erm our money 's worth from her at the moment , erm also erm she told me in the beginning that this was only go on was going on for about six weeks , well it has now been going on for over eight weeks and she now says that erm she does n't know how longer it 's going on for and I think she is just erm stalling us . |
| 16 | This may mean they have been going together for as little time as a few weeks , and a relationship of more than a month or two may be regarded as serious . |
| 17 | The same goes even for apparently outward-looking practices like experiments in physics . |
| 18 | This went on for about two hours , and then they got into their boats and sailed away . |
| 19 | These began around 1947 and went on for about two years . |
| 20 | I think the rain and I went on for about three hours . |
| 21 | This went on for about ten evenings and at the end of it all he had lost a stone in weight and had attracted the waterfowl from the entire county ! |
| 22 | departure indeed from last year where the official parade went on for around 2 hours and there was really very little hint of even a bit of descent . |
| 23 | This saga has gone on for quite some time . |
| 24 | Veronica 's father was Lord Somebody-or-other , she reminded herself , and did n't the aristocracy go in for rather grand affairs ? |
| 25 | He 'll go in for about four months , they 'll give him shock treatment and all that , but as soon as he comes out he starts drinking again . |
| 26 | Some branches go in for quite lavish posters , some make do with local draughtsmanship . |
| 27 | I go in for really frumpy underwear . ’ |
| 28 | But i It 's obvious that you 've always y gone in for quite stylish displays of your fruit too have n't you ? |
| 29 | the only battleship I know about is the girl friend go away for about three months at a time and you 'd say of where 's Norman , oh he 's er working and then we all knew he 's working for a he 'd put them in the computer systems right the way throughout the ships |
| 30 | In those days , ICI had a sabbatical system and the chairman of my division went away for nearly four months . |