Example sentences of "it go for [num] " in BNC.

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1 No sooner did he reach York than he resurrected the York Quarterly and kept it going for five years and nineteen numbers , with the arms of the see on the outer cover , and underneath , ‘ Editor : the Archbishop of York ’ .
2 Eldorado 's death knell has been heralded since the week it started on July 6 , although BBC bosses had said they would keep it going for five years despite the torrent of criticism .
3 But you do not call an ecumenical Council and keep it going for four years at vast expense in order principally to repeat what is already well known to be the teaching of the Church .
4 Right , so it 's twenty gallons per minute times , let's say you 've got it going for ten minutes , ten mins and the per minutes and the minutes cancel out and the answer comes in gallons then .
5 I had a visitors ' visa , renewed annually but I simply forgot and let it go for two months .
6 And that she said was repossessed and it went for seventy five thousand .
7 David Lloyd , his captain at Lancashire , tells a story that once in a Gillette Cup match against Gloucestershire at Old Trafford , Clive Lloyd edged a ball from Mike Procter so hard that it went for six .
8 He tried the hook , got a top edge and it went for two over the keeper 's head .
9 But it was a Vauxhall Astra van but I mean it was E reg and it was three years ago and it went for two thousand quid !
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