Example sentences of "go [adv prt] [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | it 's going on now for seven weeks |
2 | ‘ I thought I 'd ring and congratulate you on managing at last to see what some of us have been going on about for all these years . ’ |
3 | ‘ I would n't mind going out there for two or three months at a time but not permanently . ’ |
4 | We had been going out together for four years ; he was more like a brother than a boyfriend . |
5 | Liberties , you like to go up there for that do n't you ? |
6 | Now when it had had a general repair on it , there was a little plate put on it and er then i it w it was supposed to go out again for three years . |
7 | Beyond that , we are into the final , open stage of adult or continuing education , which may go on intermittently for many years , compensating for missed opportunities , updating and extending existing skills , or opening up new fields of interest and expertise altogether . |
8 | All that turbulence went on elsewhere for each and this third circle linking two others was its own territory . |
9 | As for our music sessions and lessons , they went on intermittently for several years until eventually the drums were abandoned , put away for the sake of both higher education and marriage . |
10 | We go in mainly for first editions of the classics but we do have some rather nice botanical books , floras mostly , sought after for their plates … |
11 | Well we go down there for all the permits and things anyway you see , recording there with the documents the P F A. |
12 | The bigger surprise still is in sixth place good old Hartlepool United who 've not gone down anywhere for 23 seasons . |
13 | In his notes Fedin writes of his heroine : ‘ She is somehow reconciled , and of course she would never go off anywhere for good . |
14 | She would go off alone for long walks over the cliffs — something she had never done before in winter . |
15 | It did n't read like some pick-up place where everyone went off together for topless holidays ; nor did it make it seem as if it was your fault for not having a social life . |
16 | ‘ Your father should go back home for some years and take you with him . |
17 | My fear has made me a prisoner in my own home ; I go out only for essential shopping . |