Example sentences of "[been] going for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | She 's been going for that ra is it radium ? |
| 3 | she said ‘ We 've been going for two months with very long hours . ’ |
| 4 | Circuses have been going for two hundred years . |
| 5 | It was been going for two years . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | The team has only been going for one term and we have only played two matches against other schools . |
| 8 | ‘ I have been going for 18 years and you get fan-tastic value for money , ’ he said . |
| 9 | It looks like the Army and Navy have been going for hundreds of years , Army and Navy Stores |
| 10 | Spare Rib — the UK 's first feminist magazine — had already been going for five years . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The Shrove Tuesday game has been going for 960 years . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | Micropal measures volatility for all unit trusts which have been going for three years . |
| 17 | He 's been going for three hours . |
| 18 | Providing the plan has been going for ten years . |
| 19 | ‘ There is a danger in any organisation that has been going for twenty years of attracting a clique and closing the doors on others . |
| 20 | Er , we 've been going for twenty six years er , and we now manage around about three thousand properties and are building er and selling around about seven hundred properties a year for , for rent and low cost home ownership . |
| 21 | They 've been going for twenty years and er there 's er school is very much , I would have put you straight into schools |
| 22 | Everyone remembers Star Trek , it 's been going for twenty five years |
| 23 | ‘ Our factory in Scotland has been going for 15 years ’ says Smillie . |
| 24 | ‘ Take my word for it , I 've been going for 30 years since the well was a bucket in a hole in the ground , and there is plenty of water , ’ she said . |