Example sentences of "go [adv prt] [adv] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ahead , the wall goes on interminably for mile after mile to the distant swelling on the horizon marking the summit . |
| 2 | On Saturday , Payton fluffed a simple chance then regained his composure to score the goal that ensured victory and finished up having to change his jersey because it was stained with the blood of a cut that required him to go off temporarily for stitches . |
| 3 | There , she was high up above the woods , but instead of being able to see all that was going on below for miles around , as she had expected , all she could see was — leaves ! |
| 4 | I have n't been there for oh I 'm always going down there for petrol now . |
| 5 | They would go mid-week when he had to go up there for Joskiss 's ; they need not be vulgar weekend lovers . |
| 6 | We do n't have to go out together for years . |
| 7 | I was afraid to go back home for fear of the trouble I 'd be in from Mum . |
| 8 | Fighting may go on intermittently for days and the original owner does not tire easily . |
| 9 | I took off the yellow waistcoat with its white lining and hung it on a hanger , and I took off my shoes , but rather like George I still felt myself to be on duty , so I switched off the light and lay on top of the bedclothes watching the black Canadian land slide by , while the free northern show went on above for hours in the sky . |
| 10 | A friend he had not seen for ages came into the bar with his wife , and , in the end , the three of them went on somewhere for dinner . |
| 11 | Er I mean they there were one or two that just went on literally for days and days and days and days . |
| 12 | The Admiral did n't go in much for saluting . |
| 13 | Melanie and Victoria each had a fat , foil-wrapped tangerine from an aromatic , tissue-padded cardboard box , which was being unpacked when they went in together for potatoes and cooking apples ; and the greengrocer lady , nodding her gold earrings , promised Victoria a solid triangle of muscatel raisins if she was a good girl and if the muscatel raisins did not sell . |
| 14 | She went on : ‘ They would go off together for days on end on their bicycles . |
| 15 | He went off happily for Christmas in Worcestershire : |
| 16 | you never guess what Andy Spence 's mum did when I went up there for dinner once ? , it 's vile |
| 17 | But she has n't gone up there for ages . |
| 18 | An appeal went out locally for building rubble and the volunteers started their task two days prior to Christmas . |
| 19 | Why did n't she go back home for dinner ? |
| 20 | This was followed by Julie and Cynthia talking in their comfortable Wandsworth home , indistinguishable from thousands of homes owned by married couples — so indistinguishable that the two women are faced with such questions as , ‘ If you go out together for dinner , who pays the bill ? ’ , and ‘ How do you organise your domestic life together ? |
| 21 | I go out less for drinks , less visiting friends , going to listen to music . |
| 22 | I went to see where , she puts lollipop in school like and I went to see exactly she 's supposed to start at quarter to twelve so I went round there for quarter to twelve about five past twelve when she , it 's like yours . |
| 23 | I thought oh my god we arranged to go round there for dinner or something , I 'd forgotten . |