Example sentences of "[noun] go [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | This at least gives him the freedom to go out for air and to do errands such as visiting local shops or going to the hairdresser . |
| 2 | What about if T goes on for about erm one second , when it 's going to be equal to V M one minus E to the minus one . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Well A Alison goes out for one evening so that means I have to get back early for that evening |
| 5 | Children and church helpers spent Saturday afternoon making certain there were enough traditional Mothering Sunday posies to go round for mothers of all ages . |
| 6 | Even now , there are those churlish souls who mourn the fact that Lovesexy is not a There 's a Riot Goin' On for the eighties . |
| 7 | If the pilot light goes out for any reason , a heat-sensing thermocouple detects the fault and prevents the main gas supply from operating . |
| 8 | Meanwhile the search goes on for a scientific breakthrough . |
| 9 | The transcript goes on for pages and pages , and not a single word was said about any of those increases being phased in . |
| 10 | New Scientist published an article with the transfixing title of ‘ The search for scale invariant cosmology ’ , showing that there was a search going on for a deeper understanding of the Universe . |
| 11 | He had the order books going back for years and years and he was able to show me . |
| 12 | That was the sort of thing I could imagine Denny and Kay going in for , at least in theory . |
| 13 | When our teenagers go out for the evening , most of them use something , if only occasionally , as a social prop . |
| 14 | The festivities went on for days . |
| 15 | Though modern readers might wish to repay Mr Ruskin 's ‘ hard work ’ recorded in a 1854 entry , with hard labour , the practice of dismembering books went on for many centuries . |
| 16 | Some branches go in for quite lavish posters , some make do with local draughtsmanship . |
| 17 | Current members of the Club go up for the weekend to climb ( this year it was too cold — even the lakes were frozen ) and after dinner retire to doss on whatever floor may be found . |
| 18 | ‘ the smoke of the innumerable tall chimneys lies over all like a poultice … houses and shops go on for ever , and at the back of them , blotting out all the rest of the world , rise great precipitous mills like frowning cliffs , at whose base are the small houses where the folks live like coneys at a mountain foot . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Schools went in for a lot of physical education , ‘ drill ’ , which involved jumping about in a drafty hall with your skirt tucked into your knickers if you were female . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | In recent weeks his perky figure has turned up twice in the winners enclosure on Northern tracks and when Dance of Words went in for Mick O'Toole last Friday night at Downpatrick this was his seventh winner since his return to Ireland . |
| 23 | This pantomime went on for some time and , inevitably , the emotional strain brought on a resurgence of his symptoms . |
| 24 | There was quite genuine concern you know , when blues parties went on for for days and days and days . |
| 25 | Then anti-climax , as they watched its tail-lights in the pitchy dark , lights that seemed to throb and waver in their seared sight before they blazed redly when the brakes went on for the corner by the sailing club slipway . |
| 26 | The court room at the Old Bailey was hushed dock went in for the jury to return for their verdict . |
| 27 | So the merger boom went on for a while , still fuelled by this false belief . |
| 28 | It can be said of these strong-minded and independently gifted accomplices that their work shows a dimension of reciprocity and replication , of the production unit , which stands at an appreciable remove from parody and plagiarism , and from the mimicry of other people 's voices which is comprehended in the term ‘ ventriloquism ’ , which Amis goes in for in private , among friends , and which is also a pleasure of the novels he writes . |
| 29 | The main point is to raise money for Christian Aid , and although preparatory work goes on for many months , the 3 weeks during which the Church is used for sorting , and them selling , seem to bring out all the best feelings . |
| 30 | This type of question goes back for several generations , and small children are able to answer freely without any effort or strain on their part . |