Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] be going for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Jacquard looms have been going for over 100 years , improvements are still being carried out . |
| 2 | ‘ Our factory in Scotland has been going for 15 years ’ says Smillie . |
| 3 | Providing the plan has been going for ten years . |
| 4 | Well you have to think , International Women 's Day has been going for just about a hundred years . |
| 5 | Now of course , in a , in a complete psychoanalysis , if Woodrow Wilson had been going for analysis , then all kinds of other aspects of his life and personality would have opened up . |
| 6 | Circuses have been going for two hundred years . |
| 7 | And , the way things had been going for Gerhard Berger , it was perhaps no surprise that it should be his McLaren which would suffer that fate . |
| 8 | It looks like the Army and Navy have been going for hundreds of years , Army and Navy Stores |
| 9 | Although the actual game has been going for over 65 years there was a slight change made in 1943 when the event became a charity match to raise funds for the specific purpose of the prevention of blindness . |
| 10 | The Shrove Tuesday game has been going for 960 years . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | ’ — and the Project had been going for so long , you see . |
| 13 | Remember estate agents have been going for so long they say , Oh is that another folder ? |
| 14 | Thunderbirds have been going for over half a century … and with the next generation Its they 're set to continue for another twenty five years Fab . |
| 15 | They could get hot water , but only after the fire had been going for a while and the back boiler had heated up . |