Example sentences of "go [adv prt] for a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | Well that practice did go on for a long number of years where the the riveter was the was the boss of the squad and on the Friday night , when er where it came knocking off time , he would collect the wages and he would divide that up between the squad which would be , a holder-on , a rivet boy , er maybe a putter-in , er again in my time , that was mostly a squad . |
| 33 | It could go on for a long time in this condition , like the Spanish Empire in its centuries of decline . |
| 34 | History shows it can go on for a long time , as deficits and surpluses did during the golden age before the First World War . |
| 35 | The list could go on for a long time . |
| 36 | This is another list that could go on for a long time . |
| 37 | The argument will go on for a long time . |
| 38 | I could go on for a long time in praise of Maxwell . |
| 39 | But er I could er I I could go on for a long time on that subject but time 's short dear , |
| 40 | It will go on for a long time but lost it is already . ’ |
| 41 | But while the search went on for a suitable donor , Evelyn and Peter Walker kept a constant vigil by their ten-year-old daughter 's hospital bedside . |
| 42 | At nine-thirty tea was served in the next room and conversation went on for a long time , above all if Mérimée or Octave Feuillet ( the novelist who was librarian at Fontainebleau ) were seated next to the Empress . |
| 43 | It went on for a long time afterwards , I do n't know if he 's still in love with me , ’ she says . |
| 44 | This sort of exchange went on for a long time . |
| 45 | ‘ The attack went on for a long time and the victim is obviously very shocked , ’ said police . |
| 46 | The noise went on for a long time . |
| 47 | He went on for a long time — we had such energy , then , in our quarrels — and sank deeper and deeper into what was really absurdity , saying that it was all his fault , he had been a lousy husband , too absorbed in his job to notice I was bored and fretting because I was ‘ wasting my education ’ , and that if only I had been ‘ straight ’ with him , we could have done something to put this right . |
| 48 | That went on for a long time . |
| 49 | And that kind of thing went on for a long time , until I could stand it no longer and decided to leave the USSR . |
| 50 | The noise in the Opera House went on for a long time . |
| 51 | The royal dinner went on for a long time , but at last Fritz , Sapt , and I were alone in the King 's dressing-room . |
| 52 | The last dance went on for a long time . |
| 53 | This went on for a long time . |
| 54 | The embrace went on for a long time , but Miguel kept his self-control , so that their kisses , although they grew sweeter and more languid , never became threatening . |
| 55 | The talking went on for a few moments then the sudden , all too familiar , sound of a mortar bomb leaving the barrel . |
| 56 | Morrell went on for a comfortable victory over three seconds clear of the defending champion , Mark Kirk , of Ballymena . |
| 57 | 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 . |
| 58 | ‘ 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 . |
| 59 | Both have gone on for a long time . |
| 60 | This had been of something more than philosophical interest to Karen and I in our pre-coital phase , since it meant that we could count on at least a minute thirty seconds before he reappeared , or as much as three minutes forty-five seconds if we heard the seat go down for a big jobby . |