Example sentences of "[be] going for [adj] " in BNC.

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1 And do n't forget to use plenty of reverb if you 're going for that ‘ cathedral of sound ’ sound .
2 You 're going for that ?
3 And do n't forget to use plenty of reverb if you 're going for that ‘ cathedral of sound ’ sound .
4 ‘ My morale wo n't be shattered if we do n't win , I suppose we 're going for second place .
5 I mean now they 're going for thirty two .
6 I think , I think more and more we 're going for two , two things .
7 Yeah , cos if you 're going for fifty
8 And we 're going for three hundred this year .
9 When you can get choice of them , if they 're going for forty over a piece !
10 If you 're going for 7–0 tomorrow , I 'll be a bit more cautious and go for 2–0 .
11 On top of that the new point to point season is off and running and that 's where we 're going for this week 's Friday Feature
12 If they 've never advertised before which is unlikely if we 're going for high fli you know high flier
13 I says I 've already told you about it , she says yeah I know she says but you 're going for some petrol tonight , I just wondered if you were coming up for an hour tonight .
14 Do you know Dave I read erm we there 's a magazine called Good Housekeeping and it 's been going for it had been going for seventy years , last year it started in nineteen twenty one , women 's magazine , very good one and they had a sort of seventieth birthday issue
15 She 's been going for that ra is it radium ?
16 she said ‘ We 've been going for two months with very long hours . ’
17 Circuses have been going for two hundred years .
18 It was been going for two years .
19 I , I look at these science things where , you know , they 're sending these things , America 's sending them , it 's been going for two year thousands of miles an hour , you know , probably a minute er and the as the man came over who went to the moon , the top man , to lecture and he was asked innumerable questions and one was do you think there 's anything up there ?
20 The team has only been going for one term and we have only played two matches against other schools .
21 ‘ I have been going for 18 years and you get fan-tastic value for money , ’ he said .
22 It looks like the Army and Navy have been going for hundreds of years , Army and Navy Stores
23 Spare Rib — the UK 's first feminist magazine — had already been going for five years .
24 The schools , which cater for boys aged from 11 to 14 , have been going for five years now and are organised by Robbie Walker , Tottenham 's representative in Northern Ireland .
25 Erm the issue is is that potentially you could be goi we could 've been going for four point three extra people and we probably wo n't do that .
26 The Shrove Tuesday game has been going for 960 years .
27 We had not been going for more than half an hour when the driver of the sick man 's bullock cart came to me and said that all was now well , we need go no further .
28 I suppose I 've seen Matthew with the safe open , and I may have noticed the books , but this firm has been going for more than a century and one does n't take much notice of such things , one has grown up with them . ’
29 Micropal measures volatility for all unit trusts which have been going for three years .
30 He 's been going for three hours .
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