Example sentences of "[verb] go [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The conversation is about how to respond to an invitation to " step outside " at a party : the gist of B's turn is that if someone were to ask her to go outside for " fresh air " at a party , she would not want to go outside for fresh air , and would not go . |
| 2 | I find some people on the streets are quite like , pigheaded and they do n't really want to go back for some reason really . |
| 3 | But Jay did n't want to go home for three , what , four hours to mope over Lucy , alone ? |
| 4 | When I started travelling extensively in trains ( 1966 ) , which tend to go faster for longer than bicycle , car or bus , I could think better . |
| 5 | The WRU and its leading 18 clubs are deadlocked over the issue of leagues , with no sign of a thaw in the cold war between the two bodies which has gone on for two years . |
| 6 | Daily assessment has gone on for all these years , with tests occasionally being undertaken — that is a reality . |
| 7 | ‘ It has gone on for 15 months and so far most firms have managed to survive , but they ca n't go on like this for ever . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ It has gone on for 15 months and so far most firms have managed to survive , but they ca n't go on like this for ever . ’ |
| 9 | In Wales the club-v-country argument has gone on for longer even than the locust years — a constant , nagging reminder of the manifold and manifest divisions that have wrought such damage on Welsh rugby . |
| 10 | Madam Speaker in view of the fact that the real value of pensions has gone down for many years now following the break . |
| 11 | ‘ The bright child who might possibly get nine GCSEs is going to be pushed to go in for more and more . |
| 12 | The list of things to be seen goes on for several pages , and most of them have three stars . |
| 13 | In the diary Mr Springhall reports how the emigrants ' luggage was searched going aboard for intoxicating liquor , and how the ‘ stress of weather ’ kept the ship in port before before setting sail . |
| 14 | He 'd just stopped going back for more . |
| 15 | Normally , the time is fifteen minutes , and for fifteen minutes it 's five fifty , so if you 've got a lot of hair , it 's quite coarse , it 's going to go on for several months . |
| 16 | I voted for this government because they said they were n't going to go in for that sort of rubbish . |
| 17 | New York drug dealers seem to go in for sophisticated marketing ploys . |
| 18 | He 's got to go on for another ten lines , piling on more and more out of the way references to classical paradises so that he can give it all away for God . |
| 19 | Well I think the consideration and the research has got to go on for some time . |
| 20 | So I , I mean , I 've got to go in for that . |
| 21 | In that way , we would increase national expenditure on training and the Secretary of State would not have to go in for these dictatorial measures . |
| 22 | At home he decided to go in for wholesale enclosures , encouraged his tenants to take long leases by reducing their rents , and instructed them in modern scientific methods . |
| 23 | Refused to go back for any more . |
| 24 | He says without it the war would have gone on for many more years . |
| 25 | Glenn Hoddle says he thinks his team will win because there is a determination running throughout the club and the supporters who were robbed three years ago and could have gone on for another fifty or sixty years waiting a chance like this … |
| 26 | Shout , they 'd shout something but er well since we 've been living up here , my mother used to give , the man used to come for the order for the grocery , the baker used to come round , the milk used to come round , they all used to come round at she 'd ha she did n't have go out for heavy loads of stuff to bring in it was all delivered , but when they started some new technique of er of ordering by computer , it 's going to come back to square one again you know , they 'll be delivering stuff in the same jolly old way hey . |
| 27 | Shrimp kept going up for some water , trod on Andrew . |
| 28 | We keep we keep going on for longer and longer but it 's taking a lot longer for us to get any closer . |
| 29 | I can count the number of trout that I have taken from this lovely loch on the fingers of one hand and blank days are the rule , but I keep going back for more . |
| 30 | Time dulls the memory , though , and we keep going back for more . |