Example sentences of "going [adv] for the " 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 | And that was for them going just for the day . |
| 4 | ‘ Going away for the week-end , are you , love ? ’ she said . |
| 5 | Sorry , old boy , going away for the weekend . ’ |
| 6 | He must , if he is going away for the winter , turn off the water and empty the boiler . |
| 7 | I sha n't be there , gone out , going away for the weekend . |
| 8 | And then you 're going away for the weekend ? |
| 9 | Oh , must be Friday then , I knew they were going away for the week , weekend |
| 10 | It 's hard to imagine UI going elsewhere for the stuff . |
| 11 | ‘ You 'd make them a lot happier if you 'd start singing again , ’ Candy returned , going unerringly for the jugular . |
| 12 | ‘ We 'll take a quick break for some tea and then we should be ready to run it up in another hour , ’ he briefs Captain Tuck-Brown , who has come across to check on progress before going home for the day . |
| 13 | ‘ Now we 're going home for the first proper Christmas Laura has ever had , ’ said Fran . |
| 14 | And then you could go on going home for the vacations . |
| 15 | So , instead of going straight for the big one , we decided to build up our acclimatisation by first visiting some of Kenya 's other mountains . |
| 16 | For semiconductor makers not already committed to building 16-megabit production lines , the case for going straight for the 64-megabit device looks increasingly attractive . |
| 17 | Things were n't going well for the American studios , either at home or in the UK , and they became increasingly desperate , hunting around for the winning formula some had lost and others never found . |
| 18 | Yet , at the end of a week of alternating euphoria and gloom , the sober verdict so far must be that the military side of this war is going well for the allies . |
| 19 | The second trial was going well for the Masons when it , too , was stopped after 11 weeks . |
| 20 | The war was going well for the galactic empire . |
| 21 | In times past , I had tried to get across to the continent as much as possible , but now , while other people were going abroad for the first time because of all the cheap travel around , I was ( without intending to be anti-social ) doing exactly the opposite and taking a look around the British Isles . |
| 22 | Add to this the fact that everything here can cost considerably less than almost anywhere else , and it becomes hard to see why young people go anywhere other than this sophisticated , cosmopolitan , exciting and dynamic resort , which we think is particularly good for those going abroad for the first time . |
| 23 | At the Invalidenstrasse crossing , an older man wept as he explained : ‘ I 'm going across for the first time since August 12 , 1961 . |
| 24 | Plans are going ahead for the proposed course — arrival on the Friday 16th May — start 17th May and end 23rd May — departure Saturday 24th May . |
| 25 | I do hope you and Per and the girls are well , and that work is going satisfactorily for the two of you and studies likewise for them . |
| 26 | To do that would be an achievement because at present the unchartable wilderness of trees seemed as unstable a nowhere as a cloudless sky or as fields under a carpet of snow , a world in which they might go round and round , and from which they might never emerge , a world in which there was no point in going anywhere for the reason that there simply was … nowhere . |