Example sentences of "going [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is enough for her to know that things are going badly for Mrs Thatcher and the Tory party ; the details of the Westland affair do not engage her interest . |
| 2 | I do n't know how long it was that things had been going badly for them but I do know there were problems . |
| 3 | if the war was going badly for NATO , and the USSR was already using nuclear weapons , the West would turn to the cruise missiles to strike back at the Warsaw Pact . |
| 4 | He and his Ibiza neighbour , Keke Rosberg , were both fed up with the sport , and things were going badly for both of them . |
| 5 | It should be stressed that even when the war was going badly for England , the partnership secured profits , which remained in England , even although the gains ultimately passed to other hands than those of the partners . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | More of a knock at the back door than a storming of the castle gate perhaps , but something is going right for Jon Solly . |
| 9 | ‘ It just seems not a lot has been going right for me this season . |
| 10 | Chelsea did n't deserve maximum points but very little is going right for Leeds this season . |
| 11 | And Friends of the Earth it 's only relatively new it 's only been going properly for what two years . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It has been going on for too long . |
| 14 | Plant collecting has been going on for thousands of years . |
| 15 | But it 's been going on for two years . ’ |
| 16 | It 's been going on for long enough and I think something should be done about it , ’ he added . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 19 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 20 | ‘ This has been going on for ten years , ’ he added . |
| 21 | It was not until the bombing had been going on for almost a week that the Iraqi foreign minister issued a protest . |
| 22 | She would phone the police and they would go out of their way to search her garden and reassure her of their vigilance , but it had been going on for years . |
| 23 | During a civil action that has been going on for years over ownership , he was made a ward of court and his bones kept in shoe boxes in a bank . ’ |
| 24 | You can eat octopus dunked in ouzo in a tiny harbourside taverna before going on for a five star dinner at an international restaurant . |
| 25 | A sort of messy , mucky drama has been going on for years , about unselectivity and conglomeration : ‘ Let them have the experience , all of them , every one of them , every minute of every time ! ’ ( p. 8 ) . |
| 26 | And EVERY day there is something going on for mum and dad or the kiddies . |
| 27 | There was still enough money and enough going on for a ‘ hot ’ property like Nicholson to walk in and begin making fortunes immediately . |
| 28 | ‘ I wo n't deny that , Mrs Wilson , but there was a period , just before she disappeared … well , I say just before she disappeared but it may have been going on for years , I do n't know … there was a period when she was very unhappy , very unhappy indeed . ’ |
| 29 | Although this written account is extremely tenuous , patient archaeological excavations that have been going on for many years on Santorin are beginning to reveal a story to rival that of Pompeii . |
| 30 | 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 . |