Example sentences of "[verb] [be] go for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The huge space-based extravaganza has been gone for some time . |
| 3 | Providing the plan has been going for ten years . |
| 4 | ‘ There is a danger in any organisation that has been going for twenty years of attracting a clique and closing the doors on others . |
| 5 | ‘ Our factory in Scotland has been going for 15 years ’ says Smillie . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | The Shrove Tuesday game has been going for 960 years . |
| 8 | So if you 're doing A level psychol y'know I think perhaps you ought to say , ok what we 'll do is go for less depth but a more general approach . |
| 9 | Cos what we 're doing is going for each N tuple we go through each set of states here . |
| 10 | I 'm a fool , she thought tearfully , knowing the very last vestiges of the shaky companionship they shared were gone for good . |
| 11 | In fact , practically all I did was to go for solitary walks or pretend to read Virgil or Sophocles , whose two dead languages were now as meaningless to me as mental arithmetic , and as incapable of claiming my concentration . |
| 12 | Jasper and Bert had been gone for ten days . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | In a quiet , gentle , but troubled voice , Cardiff said , ‘ You 've been gone for twenty-six years , Barbara . ’ |
| 15 | she said ‘ We 've been going for two months with very long hours . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | They 've been going for twenty years and er there 's er school is very much , I would have put you straight into schools |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | Circuses have been going for two hundred years . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It looks like the Army and Navy have been going for hundreds of years , Army and Navy Stores |
| 22 | ‘ I have been going for 18 years and you get fan-tastic value for money , ’ he said . |
| 23 | Micropal measures volatility for all unit trusts which have been going for three years . |
| 24 | 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 ? |
| 25 | She 's been going for that ra is it radium ? |
| 26 | He 's been going for three hours . |
| 27 | Everyone remembers Star Trek , it 's been going for twenty five years |