Example sentences of "going for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among Max 's other hobbies are going for long walks , travelling in the car and sitting on the fax machine , which always gives him a surprise when it starts working . |
| 2 | To avoid this aggravation , I used to spend my weekends going for long walks by the river . |
| 3 | ‘ Our favourite times are Sunday afternoons , cooking , watching television and going for long walks . ’ |
| 4 | He remembered one time he 'd walked up here , in May , after she had started seeing him in the afternoons and going for long walks along the canal-side . |
| 5 | she said ‘ We 've been going for two months with very long hours . ’ |
| 6 | He and his wife were going for two months . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's unlucky for Mo right now , but there are five strikers going for two places and I 've got to grab my chance . ’ |
| 8 | The idea of the bill was to keep them going for two weeks , you know , so they can change their mind and … |
| 9 | It was not until they had just left the Church that Joan discovered they were going for two weeks to Tenerife . |
| 10 | It was been going for two years . |
| 11 | I 'm going for easy shots . |
| 12 | Plumer determined to take the plateau in four meticulously planned stages ; he opted , as he had at Messines , at each stage to concentrate his effort , going for limited objectives with strong artillery support . |
| 13 | We 're on the same side and you know and I know that some of the troops are gon na find that , I , my opinion is that some of the troops will find that hard going for eleven weeks unless they know exactly what the hell they 're supposed to be doing in |
| 14 | And therefore the schools should remember this when looking into going for other options , which may mean there 's very little difference between them and the D S O , and the fact that th that the profits made by the D S O will be lost if they have n't got that contract , and I think that 's a very important point that they should take on , and I think a lot of schools miss out on that particular idea . |
| 15 | Are you going for other interviews for instance ? |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Spare Rib — the UK 's first feminist magazine — had already been going for five years . |
| 19 | The schools , which cater for boys aged from 11 to 14 , have been going for five years now and are organised by Robbie Walker , Tottenham 's representative in Northern Ireland . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Do you know Dave I read erm we there 's a magazine called Good Housekeeping and it 's been going for it had been going for seventy years , last year it started in nineteen twenty one , women 's magazine , very good one and they had a sort of seventieth birthday issue |
| 22 | ‘ I have been going for 18 years and you get fan-tastic value for money , ’ he said . |
| 23 | As before the Polish crisis , there was little protest except from the far left who kept the local Councils of Action going for some months as centres of mobilization and revolutionary propaganda . |
| 24 | ‘ Take my word for it , I 've been going for 30 years since the well was a bucket in a hole in the ground , and there is plenty of water , ’ she said . |
| 25 | ‘ Our factory in Scotland has been going for 15 years ’ says Smillie . |
| 26 | ‘ There is a danger in any organisation that has been going for twenty years of attracting a clique and closing the doors on others . |
| 27 | They 've been going for twenty years and er there 's er school is very much , I would have put you straight into schools |
| 28 | With X/Open Co Ltd 's help , the organisation will try and get a branding scheme going for POSC-compliant products using the SIP . |
| 29 | Doing sixty miles every hour , and I keep going for ten hours . |
| 30 | 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 . |