Example sentences of "go [adv] for [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main point is to raise money for Christian Aid , and although preparatory work goes on for many months , the 3 weeks during which the Church is used for sorting , and them selling , seem to bring out all the best feelings . |
| 2 | The list of things to be seen goes on for several pages , and most of them have three stars . |
| 3 | The process goes on for several days , a few polyps occasionally expanding briefly , until finally the coral returns to its former glory . |
| 4 | Well , they 're in detailed discussions , and negotiations are likely to go on for some hours . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | As we know , the whole indignity that women have to go through for these examinations is , of necessity , I am afraid , an unpleasant experience . |
| 7 | " I had to go away for several days and while I was gone your mother saw some papers in Devraux 's desk . |
| 8 | Although this written account is extremely tenuous , patient archaeological excavations that have been going on for many years on Santorin are beginning to reveal a story to rival that of Pompeii . |
| 9 | Erm ironically after I wrote erm the letter was typed on Monday erm to Mr Mr the only lights that have been fixed since are the ones at the end of my street and the next street not as I complained about ones on the main road erm there 's an example that 's been going on for many months where a problem , an acknowledged problem of access existed which was the reason for delay but that as I understand it has been overcome some time ago now and it 's still there , this is a group of seven lights together , the lot , erm these lights are still out , they 're not in my ward in fact , they 're just . |
| 10 | The experiments , however , involved drawing fibres and blowing bubbles of molten glass and one day , after the work had been going on for some months , Lockspeiser went home leaving the gas torch used for melting the glass still burning . |
| 11 | A wider political initiative , with UN armed observers escorting food and convoys , and increased financial output , was not launched until as late as August , by which time looting of food supplies had been going on for some months . |
| 12 | These claims were never universally accepted ; the destruction of the unity of Christendom by the Reformation helped to undermine the authority of the Pope to allocate territory , but it was Catholic France that first challenged Spain 's position in the West Indies and that conflict had been going on for some years when in 1559 , at the end of one round of European wars , France and Spain included in the peace treaty a clause which stated that fighting in regions west of the Azores or south of the Tropic of Cancer was not to be taken as a reason for resuming hostilities in Europe . |
| 13 | ‘ My father-in-law was well aware of all this ; it has been going on for some years but he would not do what was necessary to right the situation , that is cut out the loss makers and , perhaps , substitute other lines — stationery , office equipment , videos or any other line compatible with the book trade . ’ |
| 14 | Sometimes a murder enquiry will have been going on for some days before it emerges that there is a sexual element involved . |
| 15 | I 've been going downhill for several days now . |
| 16 | Or they 're pun they 're pouring money into the countryside now forty five million , he 's going in for these developments er to create a better countryside just announced this week . |
| 17 | Just another form of the takeaway service some blacks are going in for these days . |
| 18 | I just went through and said , " I 'm going out for some cigarettes , " and went out , and I 've never been back . |
| 19 | On the contrary , they feed when food is available , frequently going without for several days , and then gorging . |
| 20 | Christopher had obviously been going there for some years . |
| 21 | But what you 're doing here I think it is er , er an example of the partnership , a partnership that goes back for many years , certainly during World War Two and I think er it is still strong and er holds firm today the partnership between the United States and Great Britain . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | This can go on for several hours on a number of occasions two hundred or more eggs have been counted . |
| 25 | Though modern readers might wish to repay Mr Ruskin 's ‘ hard work ’ recorded in a 1854 entry , with hard labour , the practice of dismembering books went on for many centuries . |
| 26 | The inquest went on for many days and it had all the appearances of the public inquiry that was to follow . |
| 27 | These went on for several hours , rattling doors and windows almost continuously . |
| 28 | Family Day at OBEX was the highlight of the year , and preparations went on for several weeks in advance . |
| 29 | They were all Dreamers , and if Daine was n't brought back to Princetown , things would go badly for all Dreamers everywhere . |
| 30 | Berkeley denies that we go in for such calculations in judging distances . |