Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] go [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In recent weeks his perky figure has turned up twice in the winners enclosure on Northern tracks and when Dance of Words went in for Mick O'Toole last Friday night at Downpatrick this was his seventh winner since his return to Ireland . |
| 2 | This type of question goes back for several generations , and small children are able to answer freely without any effort or strain on their part . |
| 3 | This sort of exchange went on for a long time . |
| 4 | This sort of banter went on for a while . |
| 5 | Does the Secretary of State agree that it is vital that the public inquiry in Leicestershire establishes the circumstances that permitted the regime of terror to go on for so long and that permitted complaints made by the children to be ignored for long ? |
| 6 | Well people are not bound to lose , because some people do finish up ahead , but most people should expect to lose for the simple reason that bookies have got to make a living somehow , and therefore the odds that they offer to entice people to go in are such as to expect the bookie to make a profit , but that does n't mean to say that I am against the idea of people going in for gambling . |
| 7 | And that kind of thing went on for a long time , until I could stand it no longer and decided to leave the USSR . |
| 8 | When the string of horses goes out for exercise who takes leads er , leads them out ? |
| 9 | But that one As you saw from the the past papers that 's a usually quite a bit of marks go in for that . |
| 10 | The build up for the old firm game with Rangers went on for weeks . |
| 11 | That was all they did get … the Gloucester pack huffed and puffed again and blew Bristol down … with Phillips going through for his second try … |
| 12 | After these exchanges , fighting in Kurdestan went on for some considerable time . |
| 13 | Biggar in Lanarkshire and Wick in Caithness go in for bonfires and torches , while at Stonehaven in Kincardshire young men parade with blazing fire balls . |
| 14 | Yeah I think I 'll walk down to Green went out for a couple of hours in the morning felt grotty did n't go out at all . |
| 15 | Virginia had no property qualifications to limit men 's right to vote until 1670 , and this was a little more like the usual arrangements in a company , where all shareholders were able to vote , than the position in parliamentary elections , where property qualifications for voting went on for hundreds of years to come . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , the negotiations between the three publishers jostling for position went on for over a year without reaching a conclusion : ‘ It was very difficult to find common ground and make sure that everyone had their fair share . ’ |