Example sentences of "[conj] go [adv prt] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My hobbies include knitting , reading nursing material , the newspapers and Stephen King novels , writing letters , badminton , walking , driving , pop music , Tamla Motown music , bowling , gardening , visiting the pub or going out for meals . |
| 2 | She did n't smoke and never drank , preferring to spend her free time reading , watching television , visiting friends or going out for supper in modest bistros . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'd far rather you waited until it 's light , or went down for Bob . ’ |
| 4 | No , I could tell you a really boring joke that goes on for ages . |
| 5 | The question is how do you break into the cycle and make that happen , and I think the answer is , as I said , in two ways — one by making teachers more aware during their period of initial training , either at college or at university or polytechnic , and secondly by looking very carefully at the amount and type of in-service training erm that goes on for teachers once they 've left college and are in the schools . |
| 6 | The question is how do you break into the cycle and make that happen , and I think the answer is , as I said , in two ways — one by making teachers more aware during their period of initial training , either at college or at university or polytechnic , and secondly by looking very carefully at the amount and type of in-service training erm that goes on for teachers once they 've left college and are in the schools . |
| 7 | ‘ Do you ever wish you 'd farmed rather than going in for horses ? ’ |
| 8 | But within this complete chronology we can discern some processes and states of affairs that are comparatively brief , others that last for an intermediate length of time , and some that go on for centuries or even millennia . |
| 9 | ‘ Most people consolidate their information periodically and report it on a monthly basis : they tend to have huge consolidation exercises that go on for days . |
| 10 | Now the story of Britain 's biggest-ever robbery — and the massive money laundering operation that went on for months afterwards — will be told tomorrow night in ITV 's £2 million drama Fool 's Gold ( 9.05pm ) . |
| 11 | On those walks , when Stephen was much younger , his father used to tell him stories about a family of moles he 'd invented , elaborate adventures that went on for miles . |
| 12 | For the first time , we had a row that went on for days . |
| 13 | Or shall we just stay at home and go out for days and |
| 14 | We often have lunch together and go out for drinks . |
| 15 | Most of the St Joseph 's boys and girls finished everything on their plates — and went back for seconds or even thirds . |
| 16 | When I 'd left the horse in the yard and gone in for breakfast I found both Mackie and Sam Yaeger sitting at the table with Tremayne , all of them discussing that day 's racing at Nottingham . |
| 17 | You ca n't start making approaches to landowners and other people who live round about until the decision has been made by the working party whether to go out for consultation or not . |