Example sentences of "going [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Even while the war was going badly for the English , they suffered fewer major military defeats , and fewer English nobles had to pay ransoms than received payments from their French equivalents . |
2 | But maybe your Ministerial colleague is n't going right for the very top , McLeish thought with unreasonable conviction , and you were going to stop her working at Yeo Davis when you could . |
3 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
4 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
5 | You can eat octopus dunked in ouzo in a tiny harbourside taverna before going on for a five star dinner at an international restaurant . |
6 | There was still enough money and enough going on for a ‘ hot ’ property like Nicholson to walk in and begin making fortunes immediately . |
7 | New Scientist published an article with the transfixing title of ‘ The search for scale invariant cosmology ’ , showing that there was a search going on for a deeper understanding of the Universe . |
8 | ‘ It 's been going on for a long time , but yer Mum 's bin very foolish an' so have the rest . |
9 | There are already many alternatives to the research carried out on animals which has been going on for a long time . |
10 | This was going on for a couple of days , so I was getting worried and I took him to the prison doctor and he says , ‘ It might be with you breastfeeding , try him on the bottle . ’ |
11 | She said it had been going on for a few months . ’ |
12 | It was the Friday after the twelfth was always the gatheri Glen Ayloch gathering and is yet , and is going on for a hundred and s something year a hundred and What did I we say a hundred and twenty years since it was started I think . |
13 | I lived in my house for going on for a year |
14 | Here was this summer evening , their forms seemed to say , to be enjoyed by all , going on for a long time yet , with more ahead , and the fair when they felt like it , and the fireworks . |
15 | It is part of a rather complicated arrangement that has been going on for a few years now . ’ |
16 | ‘ It has been going on for a while — but not on the scale it is happening now . |
17 | This world has been going on for a long time , oh god knows how many , five hundred thousand million bloody years and eventually it 's going to , it , it , it , it 's going to explode and go |
18 | They get typically twice or two and a half times the salaries that our people get and that 's being going on for a very long time . |
19 | But certainly by the end of the 17th century there was a huge concert up there at this time of the morning going on for an hour . |
20 | In the West End there seems at the moment a tendency to rely too much on the goodwill of actors which is often accompanied by a failure to maintain a true interest in what is going on for the actor . |
21 | Ramped Craft Logistic and mexeflote rafts had been arriving regularly throughout the night , continuing the build-up of vehicles and ammunition Which had been going on for the past two days . |
22 | In Guatemala too , the 1980s marked a high point of repression in a political conflict which has been going on for the best part of thirty years . |
23 | They tell us what 's been happening on the unit that we 're going to be working on , so that we know what 's been going on for the morning . ’ |
24 | The whiplash dynamics of Batman Returns represent the culmination of a process that has been going on for the last 15 years . |
25 | Well if you remember that the Jarrow marches and the general strike were n't very many years erm you know be behind the preparations that were going on for the second world war . |
26 | It is common for patients to appear for their first out-patient appointment with one or other of these problems , which has been going on for the previous few weeks . |
27 | PLENTY of barmy things going on for the next few days , as the Festival of Comedy gets underway . |
28 | This , like the argument about human progress , suggests that the universe can have been going only for a finite time . |
29 | ‘ We only wanted athletes of distinction and no one is going along for the trip , ’ Murray said . |
30 | In November 1974 , it was he who talked me into going along for the audition for ‘ New faces ’ at the Blue Angel nightclub in Leeds . |