Example sentences of "[verb] [been] go for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the station 's spokesman Jeff Simpson said last night : ‘ It 's a direction in which Radio One has been going for a couple of years . |
| 2 | But then , when you said they 'd been gone for a couple of years … ’ |
| 3 | ‘ You sound as if I 'd been gone for a few hours and forgot to leave you a note . ’ |
| 4 | So , you did so many miles per hour , we calculated , you would have done so many miles if you 'd been going for a full hour at that speed , so your dis your , your speed , velocity really but we 'll call it speed , right ? |
| 5 | He had been gone for a long time . |
| 6 | They could get hot water , but only after the fire had been going for a while and the back boiler had heated up . |
| 7 | Anyhow , it had been going for a very short time , not very satisfactory , because none of us really were very successful with our machine , and then a … messenger came in to say that a [ radio ] taxi driver had come into No. 10 to say he 's heard everything going on in his taxi in Whitehall . |
| 8 | This is a firm and they 've been going for a number of years . |
| 9 | a standard Anglepoise lamp er which it 's been going for a number of years , you can get it in about six different colours to match different designs of , er put colour into your room , now if somebody was spending a lot of time sitting knitting and has to look at the knitting or has to look at the pattern then er a good strong light which wo n't get in their eyes but goes straight on to what , whatever they 're doing , is by far the best thing for them , er but they say oh I do n't like it , it 's a bit angular is n't it , erm , modern sort of thing , er but because it 's angular it does n't mean to say it 's not gon na fit into the room it 's the right thing for it , er for the person doing that work . |