Example sentences of "go [adv prt] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hunt goes on for two climbers after body is found |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It also goes on for bloody ages . |
| 4 | There are , of course , many occupations in which similar demands of constant readiness are made , but when it goes on for twenty years or more it is inclined to upset a good domestic relationship . |
| 5 | The list of things to be seen goes on for several pages , and most of them have three stars . |
| 6 | The process goes on for several days , a few polyps occasionally expanding briefly , until finally the coral returns to its former glory . |
| 7 | Well , they 're in detailed discussions , and negotiations are likely to go on for some hours . |
| 8 | Well I think the consideration and the research has got to go on for some time . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It goes along for twelve months . |
| 11 | I voted for this government because they said they were n't going to go in for that sort of rubbish . |
| 12 | At home he decided to go in for wholesale enclosures , encouraged his tenants to take long leases by reducing their rents , and instructed them in modern scientific methods . |
| 13 | Yes , Americans , erm I have the impression , they 're being rather slow to go in for this sort of Federal legislation . |
| 14 | New York drug dealers seem to go in for sophisticated marketing ploys . |
| 15 | Edwina , the worldly mother-in-law who goes in for interior decoration . |
| 16 | Corinthian Geometric goes in for small vessels of very high technical quality , simply and elegantly decorated . |
| 17 | In the afternoon , one or both of us goes in for extra teaching , discussions , etc. in the afternoon , and then we eat dinner at 6 . |
| 18 | He also goes in for creative self-plundering by way of rhetorical and dialectical self-parody . |
| 19 | As we know , the whole indignity that women have to go through for these examinations is , of necessity , I am afraid , an unpleasant experience . |
| 20 | ‘ And these unveilings have been going on for eight years ? |
| 21 | All the happening was going on for other people miles away . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | But it 's been going on for two years . ’ |
| 25 | He went there and back and do nothing to the people bol er er involved , being consulted and we 've had that going on for two years no consultation here has taken place with the people who it affects and there 's nothing in your motion to say it will . |
| 26 | In another class , a boy is being cross-examined on complaints by both girls and boys in the class that he has been groping them ; it emerges through class discussion that this has been going on for two years . |
| 27 | Their success revealed the misunderstanding had been going on for six years . |
| 28 | The present round of talks , which broke down and sparked the trade war between the US and Europe yesterday , has been going on for six years . |
| 29 | Negotiations had been going on for 17 months before the strike . |
| 30 | But trying to classify and understand them will show you a good deal about what is going on for that child . |