Example sentences of "go [adv] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Josie glanced at the old folding travel alarm that she kept open on the makeup table , and said , ‘ I have to go somewhere for a minute . |
| 2 | The enjoyment of gross physical activity goes on for a long time , progressing to skipping and rushing-about games . |
| 3 | It goes on for a minute . |
| 4 | THE WORLD HAS stopped making sense again , and Odilo forgets everything again ( which is probably just as well ) , and the war is over now ( and it seems pretty clear to me that we lost it ) , and life goes on for a little while . |
| 5 | Meanwhile the search goes on for a scientific breakthrough . |
| 6 | The Parks tournament at Calderstones Park , which starts on July 19 and goes on for a week , will have the added bonus of the Dunlop tennis roadshow , with Castle and other leading coaches topping the bill . |
| 7 | ‘ It all seemed to go on for a long time , but it must have been just a few seconds . ’ |
| 8 | It seemed to go on for a long time . |
| 9 | To go on for a long time doing better and better exhibitions . |
| 10 | It seemed to go on for a very long time . |
| 11 | Colleagues , it 's approximately four twenty five , what I propose to do is to go on for a short period and to take in the resolutions on the , on your erm Maastricht erm and then we 'll have a look at the time , but I think we should be able to get those in within a , a relatively short period of time . |
| 12 | ‘ It seemed to go on for an awfully long time . |
| 13 | At first it was like leaning into a thick , inert sponge , and that seemed to go on for an age . |
| 14 | Yes if she 's coming out you mean you do n't , you do n't have to do it all tonight she wan might want to be talking about erm her grading a lot so you ca n't expect her to do any work until she 's got that out of her system she might want to go on for an hour or so . |
| 15 | ‘ I — I just want to go below for a moment . ’ |
| 16 | You know , the computer goes down for a hour , it 's three-quarters of the day to get everything back and validated , and that 's a major interruption . |
| 17 | I 'd like to go in for a bit , but there 's loads of people in there and I ai n't got no washing to do . |
| 18 | Firemen were called to the river Taff in Llandaff to rescue Eric , a 10-stone Irish Wolfhound who had got into deep water after deciding to go in for a swim . |
| 19 | ‘ The players have to be prepared to put themselves into dangerous positions , to go in for a hard tackle , be brave and take the blows . |
| 20 | It 's easier for you to experiment to see how it works than for me to go in for a detailed but boring explanation . |
| 21 | One of my other SCOTTISH OFFICE contacts has asked me to go in for a sandwich lunch on Wednesday ( 25th ) , which is kind . |
| 22 | You need the permission of the owner to go in for a title search so you 'd have to know the owner first . |
| 23 | She had been accepted for the job at Ardis & Co , looking the way she normally looked , but if to keep her job — and she had no idea at that stage whether there was a Vasey junior , or similar , at G Vasey Ltd — she had to go in for a bit of de glamorisation , then so be it . |
| 24 | He goes in for a sort of hall-of-mirrors self-impersonation , telling people how he would have done the murder if he had done it ( which he has ) . |
| 25 | Caird also goes in for a few unnecessary stunts , such as having two of the ladies of the town played by men in drag . |
| 26 | Chris , tall , lithe and manly , strips off and goes in for a swim in his panda-briefs . |
| 27 | Everyone goes in for a little enhancement , one way or another . |
| 28 | Yeah , and if goes in for a pint he gives you a packet now . |
| 29 | A packet now , goes in for a pint . |
| 30 | You 'll probably find when you register you 're invited to go along for a new patient medical anyway , and all sorts of things like that . |