Example sentences of "to go [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Josie glanced at the old folding travel alarm that she kept open on the makeup table , and said , ‘ I have to go somewhere for a minute . |
| 2 | He goes to sleep with the feeling that things are going to go right for him in this town . |
| 3 | But I think that 's the only thing were , if I worked in a benefit office I would n't get on very well , because if I saw something I 'd try and move heaven and earth to make everything to go right for me . |
| 4 | At the outset he seems to have been on congenial terms with Palmerston , but their relationship went sour during Hall 's two-and-a-half years at the Office of Works : and almost from the date of Hall 's appointment , events started to go badly for Pennethorne . |
| 5 | It is only possible to assert that work begun with a lifting of the heart is likely to go on for longer than work begun with a contracting of the stomach , that work done with a lifting of the heart will develop further than work done with a contracting of the stomach , but there is nothing to indicate that the small amount of work which is the result of a contracting of the stomach will not be better than the large amount of work done with a lifting of the heart , than the rich development which is the likely result of work undertaken with a lifting of the heart , always bearing in mind , wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , poring over the pages covered in his friend 's tiny handwriting , wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve , glanced up at the sheet in his typewriter , always bearing in mind , he typed ( as Harsnet had written ) , that better and worse are relative terms , and that one man 's better is another man 's worse , one age 's better is another age 's worse , one civilization 's better is another civilization 's worse , better , worse , relative values , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , always bearing in mind , wrote Harsnet , that in the long run it all comes to the same thing , long run , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , same thing . |
| 6 | Time slowed down , Phoebe wanted this moment to go on for ever , this calm moment before the storm . |
| 7 | As I said in an earlier chapter , the principle of speaking is not to go on for more than a few minutes without getting your audience to do something — applaud or laugh or raise their hands . |
| 8 | He cleaned up his act , quit taking uppers and downers with the help of his wife and the Betty Ford Clinic , and now looks set to go on for another 40 years . |
| 9 | Hospital appointments seemed to go on for ever and when I left for the Sahara , I forgot to cancel one of them . |
| 10 | So upon this , my third post-chapel ‘ chat ’ of my first Lent term , ‘ The boy who refused to be confirmed at a Woodard School ’ was launched , and the annual , ‘ All those who have n't been confirmed , stay behind after matins ’ was to go on for four more weary years . |
| 11 | The hearings are likely to go on for months . |
| 12 | Today 's ‘ continuous ’ culture processes are designed to go on for months without completely emptying the fermenter . |
| 13 | She wanted it to go on for ever and ever ! |
| 14 | It is usually noticeable that when a masochist has for years felt hard done by , often over-controlled by their partner , and then for some reason the tables are turned , he or she metes out punishment as if this has to go on for the same length of time that the masochist 's suffering was endured . |
| 15 | It seemed to go on for ever , until the far-off staccato bursts of a Uzi cut into the surrealistic scene like a surgeon 's knife . |
| 16 | Broken in pieces and razor-sharp , they seemed to go on for ever . |
| 17 | I suddenly had the sense that this was going to go on for ever and the conversation became an argument . |
| 18 | ‘ It all seemed to go on for a long time , but it must have been just a few seconds . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ It seemed to go on for an awfully long time . |
| 20 | It is important not to go on for too long , or to leave difficult business unfinished . |
| 21 | It seemed to go on for a long time . |
| 22 | It seemed to go on for ever . |
| 23 | To go on for a long time doing better and better exhibitions . |
| 24 | In particular , Marian liked to see the finish of a case when as a solicitor a case ‘ seemed to go on for ever ’ . |
| 25 | The moment seemed to go on for ever , impossibly long-drawn-out . |
| 26 | And then she dived and rattled down the dirt-track which seemed to go on for ever across an empty hillside . |
| 27 | Our universe might be like that — it might have an infinite number of galaxies — but if so , it will have to go on for ever in all directions and would n't be the sort where an astronaut could do a round trip in a straight line . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Well I think the consideration and the research has got to go on for some time . |
| 30 | After Schloss Hartheim , which seemed to go on for ever , the three of us moved out of her parents ' house and came down here to Munich and its Alpine air . |