Example sentences of "go [adv] for the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Now we 're going home for the first proper Christmas Laura has ever had , ’ said Fran .
2 In times past , I had tried to get across to the continent as much as possible , but now , while other people were going abroad for the first time because of all the cheap travel around , I was ( without intending to be anti-social ) doing exactly the opposite and taking a look around the British Isles .
3 Add to this the fact that everything here can cost considerably less than almost anywhere else , and it becomes hard to see why young people go anywhere other than this sophisticated , cosmopolitan , exciting and dynamic resort , which we think is particularly good for those going abroad for the first time .
4 At the Invalidenstrasse crossing , an older man wept as he explained : ‘ I 'm going across for the first time since August 12 , 1961 .
5 Erm , all goes well for the first two years , no real problems there , the client is now , had an accident , an illness , sickness or whatever , now needs to claim on the policy .
6 More than 20 years since he started flying , he went solo for the first time .
7 She went home for the first time after twelve weeks … but she 's been in and out of the unit constantly ever since .
8 I went yesterday for the first time .
9 It might go well for the first three or four months , and then all of a sudden we might have a lapse in a few months ,
10 They also had previous experience , so we hoped all would go well for the second run .
11 Queen Victoria went there for the first , very influential time in 1889 , though even before that the surprisingly large English community in Pau had begun to colonize it , to such an extent that by the 1870s not only did the Church of England have congregations in Biarritz but they were already schismatic and the Archbishop of Canterbury had to travel out on a pastoral visit to try and stifle the factionalism .
12 But on 69 minutes Apoel went ahead for the first time in the entire tie and it was to prove decisive , Christodoulous Pounas curling his corner into the far corner of the net .
13 ‘ It would seem the £100m needed to build the jail would be a ripe contender for the cuts and it wo n't go ahead for the next financial year at least . ’
14 ‘ It would seem the £100m needed to build the jail would be a ripe contender for the cuts and it wo n't go ahead for the next financial year at least . ’
15 While we remember those involved in medical missionary work overseas , let us also remember those who are currently in training to go overseas for the first time .
16 Hall , in fact , might well have won in straight games , as he led 9-6 in the opening game and then missed four successive smashes to allow Baddeley to go ahead for the first time at 10-9 .
17 Hall , in fact , might well have won in straight games , as he led 9-6 in the opening game and then missed four successive smashes to allow Baddeley to go ahead for the first time at 10-9 .
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