Example sentences of "[modal v] go [adv prt] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We should go in for wholesale demolition of buildings from the Sixties and Seventies . |
| 2 | I think we should go in for 10,000 of these ones … " |
| 3 | In the end my parents agreed that I could go up for one year instead of being at the Royal College of Music . |
| 4 | The troubles are going on for over 20 years and the NI Office is doing very little about it , so it could go on for another 20 years . |
| 5 | I could go on for some time sir , but I will now proceed to the technical planning matters . |
| 6 | And they 'd go on for many years with incredible perseverance , believing when they had no reason to believe , when it was crazy for them to believe . |
| 7 | And they er locked us out until we 'd go back for ten and thruppence a day , so of course we did n't go back . |
| 8 | He says time may be running out — it has run out for alot … this may go on for several more years — we have n't go several more years . |
| 9 | An ‘ abstract ’ — a summary of your claim in not more than 150 words — needs to be written for this stage , which may go on for some time . |
| 10 | ‘ This may go on for some time , Christina , and could get very complicated . |
| 11 | Oh I do n't think I shall go in for that . |
| 12 | Like a true professional , Floyd was determined the show would go on for New Year 's Eve at his pub , the Maltsters Arms . |
| 13 | Like all long-term coughers he had developed a noise-reducing technique , and all that could be heard was a chuck-chuck-chuck sound that would go on for long minutes at a time , gradually winding down like a clockwork drummer until every scrap of air was squeezed out of his poor concrete lungs . |
| 14 | ‘ The feasting would go on for seven days . |
| 15 | Jacob , increasingly since he commenced going to university , might be missing for the rest of the day ; Joshua , particularly in the summer , would go out for long walks in the country , following , he said , the course of some meshuggeneh game in which young men threw an iron ball along the road and ran after it — could there be such a game ? |
| 16 | Maybe the Sergeant Major would go in for some Greek dancing , and smash all the house DJ 's records instead of plates . |
| 17 | the project will go on for two or three weeks . |
| 18 | The conference will go on for 3 days . |
| 19 | It will go on for another while anyway we hope . |
| 20 | But the Queen will see just about every past and present RAF aircraft a flypast which will go on for three quarters of an hour . |
| 21 | I do n't think there 's a very great deal in the way of er lighting fittings one can talk about erm in houses in Harlow , it 's er , there 's a , a distinct difference between the light , a lot , lot of architects in , in Harlow have lived in Harlow you see and they will go in for all the very latest type of lighting fittings erm and because they have er access to the books for the various er designers of lighting fittings er , generally though , they , the majority of the people in the town er have come from er London boroughs and erm they view the same kind of lighting fittings they 've always been used to . |
| 22 | You will go in for these educational |
| 23 | This can go on for two hours or more , until all the eggs have been laid . |
| 24 | This can go on for several hours on a number of occasions two hundred or more eggs have been counted . |
| 25 | ‘ I can go on for another three or four years yet because I 'm still as fit as a fiddle , ’ he said . |
| 26 | John looked at his watch , ‘ Come on Mary , we can go on for another ten minutes and I 'd like to find out what is around that bend . ’ |
| 27 | So use the opportunity , get a return , make them take a good look at you and then you know you 're alright and can go on for another couple of years and make them look at you again . |
| 28 | Playing hard to get is a game which can go on for some considerable time , especially if one has as ardent a suitor as the French . |
| 29 | Once the patient is used to getting out of the house , he can go out for social occasions . |
| 30 | On the other hand , he can ask for provisional damages and get a lesser sum now which may seem unattractive even though he can go back for more later . |