Example sentences of "going for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some feeling like that which had attacked Jim Nesbitt last year and made him marry that girl in Durham , who , to his mind , had nothing going for her . |
| 2 | Still , she 's got precious little else going for her . ’ |
| 3 | She had so much going for her , why had she felt the urge to destroy herself ? |
| 4 | Sara used to spy on the boys but if she ever had anything going for her I did n't know about it . ’ |
| 5 | I agreed but then thought , yes I do , what else have I got going for me ? |
| 6 | ‘ I would seriously think about coming here for a longer stay if the right opportunity arose , but I do have a lot going for me back home , ’ said Lloyd , who spent his early years in Epping . |
| 7 | I have a lot going for me . |
| 8 | Mowat is n't half going for him . |
| 9 | This is hard to understand , for he had everything going for him . |
| 10 | OK , so Zacchaeus was clever , but that was about all he had going for him . |
| 11 | He 's got a job and everything going for him , and yet still he teams up with Billy . |
| 12 | ‘ Why jeopardize what he had going for him by getting greedy ? |
| 13 | ‘ So he had a lot going for him . ’ |
| 14 | I think he done it because he was picked on a lot and most likely thought he had n't got a lot going for him . |
| 15 | Another horse with a lot going for him is Cahervillahow who two years ago was being touted as a future winner of the Cheltenham Gold Cup . |
| 16 | Always articulate and knowledgeable about the pitfalls of this game , McWilliams has a lot going for him and if I had to decide who would be the best man to represent the province at this level , I would be hard pushed to go past him . |
| 17 | ‘ I mean , deliberately going for him . ’ |
| 18 | If two such people , the one popular with Conservatives , the other a nominee of the new Liberal Government in London , took that view , the Prince had a lot going for him . |
| 19 | With all he 'd got going for him , was it any wonder that she should find him more — um — interesting than any man she had ever met ? |
| 20 | He spoke of one boy ‘ who did n't really have a lot going for him ’ who managed to qualify to compete in regional athletics events . |
| 21 | The way things are going for him right now , he would grab a hat-trick if he played up front . |
| 22 | That 's the only thing he 's got going for him . |
| 23 | cos you could , I mean if if she asked you about it , you know , you could just say well honestly I 'm quite , I did n't think you were the kind of person who 'd go for I know , I know that thing is I mean I can see , I can see that she 's going for him because |
| 24 | Mostly they were second-rate copies of the kind of American bar-room R&B bands the members of these pub bands had seen in the days when they had a bit more going for them and had actually made it to the States one time in the late sixties or early seventies . |
| 25 | Ah me , the Home , Light and Third had a lot going for them . |
| 26 | The events have everything going for them . |
| 27 | Alton had the incentives all going for them . |
| 28 | As a model of renewal , the festivals have a lot going for them . |
| 29 | We have a signal when we are going for them and it is up to me to go in and score . |
| 30 | Impressive rock scenery , deep pools and silvery cascades ; the ravines of the Peak District have a lot going for them as interesting ways of reaching the high moorland , suggests Jerry Rawson |