Example sentences of "gone [adv] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Speedy 's lay-off Thomson collides the Forest man Gemmell and the whistle has gone eventually for a free kick to Forest . |
| 2 | ‘ What has made it particularly difficult , for manufacturers of all sizes , but most of all for smaller ones , is that it has gone on for a long time . |
| 3 | Both have gone on for a long time . |
| 4 | They had gone on for a long distance , before arriving at a door in a long , anonymous wall ; the letter bearer , a gloomily serious young man with eyebrows which met across his brow , maintaining a severe silence throughout the journey . |
| 5 | None of the European resorts has yet gone in for the wholesale investment in snow-making which we see in the United States , mainly because the capital outlay is enormous and the running costs extremely high . |
| 6 | I kept just killing time until it had gone eleven o'clock and all the cinema-goers had gone in for the late shows , at which point I decided to call it a day . |
| 7 | ‘ Your Mummy has gone away for a long time ’ usually only serves to leave the child frightened but feeling the anxiety of the adults all around which forbids further discussion . |
| 8 | Some fudge the issue by saying that the grandparent has gone away for a little while . |
| 9 | Furthermore , he contests , costs at the company have gone up for the simple reason that it has moved into different areas of activity — IBM simply made the mistake of trying to be ‘ all things to all people ’ , and so will never be able to return to the profit levels of the mid-1980s . |
| 10 | He went quickly downstairs and left a note for his mother saying that he could n't sleep and had gone out for an early morning bike ride . |
| 11 | Plans have gone ahead for a regulatory body for the direct sales channel . |