Example sentences of "[vb mod] go [adv] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You ought to go in for beauty comps , he said when he was winding up his film . |
| 2 | The relationship between American distributors and British producers was an unequal one , but when British studios started to make films that went down well in America , executives became optimistic that they could turn the new relationships formed with US companies in their favour , and brushed aside Maxwell 's repeated warnings that ‘ as their films were produced in a manner most acceptable to their own people , there was no reason why they should go outside for pictures . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ He 'll go on for hours . ’ |
| 4 | I wonder if we could get away with telling my mum that we 'll go away for Christmas and New Year . |
| 5 | We 'll go out for dinner . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ You 'll go down for life . ’ |
| 7 | She might go on for years ; I could be as old as she is now before she finally gives up the ghost . |
| 8 | The room , Robert felt , might go on for yards and yards . |
| 9 | Wright said the board might go overseas for reprocessing , if necessary . |
| 10 | And this party looked as if it could go on for hours yet ! |
| 11 | This could go on for hours . |
| 12 | Let's hope the ms strikes lucky this time , otherwise this could go on for generations . |
| 13 | I could go on for pages . |
| 14 | I could go on for minutes on end . |
| 15 | ‘ Oh , well then , that trip could go on for years . |
| 16 | ‘ But this could go on for years . ’ |
| 17 | Every week she gets worse and yet it could go on for years . |
| 18 | It could go on for years possibly . |
| 19 | Up to now , the Government , rather than the UN , has met the cost of the 3,000-strong British contingent and the UN presence could go on for years , he said . |
| 20 | ‘ I suppose I could go in for advertising . ’ |
| 21 | If you were lucky er and you had friends in , you could go out for tea and , and that 's about all there was . |
| 22 | We 'd go out for dinner or we 'd be |
| 23 | Me and an aunt , just outside Norwich we used to go up for Sunday dinner it was very nice along the river there , and a , I thought the very nice part of cathedral , there 's a cathedral lies very low it had some very nice erm , mm , what you call it , close , is it ? |
| 24 | And er he used to go there for meat but he used to buy two lots , one for his o his own place and one for the farm he had you see . |
| 25 | The day I came here I 'd gone down to Age Concern — I used to go there for meetings and bingo — and I told them I was n't stopping because I 'd no money . |
| 26 | An analysis may go on for years , so the free associations , and the dreams recalled , will be conditioned by the analytic process itself , the patient 's contribution increasingly representing the assumptions of the analyst . |
| 27 | Let's go back for Benny . ’ |
| 28 | So he would go instead for Mallorca in June , 14 nights half board for £239 in Alcudia , or the Hotel America in Calas de Mallorca . |
| 29 | ‘ A typical Robson team-talk would go on for hours — no wonder the Ipswich lads in the squad had nicknamed him Mogadon . |
| 30 | She needed strength : her and Bernard 's nightly love play would go on for hours , limbs lurching and surging in some kind of gladiatorial combat as if the one who weakened first lost . |