Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] be go [adv] for " in BNC.

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1 The needless slaughter has been going on for more than a century .
2 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 ) .
3 The process has been going on for some time .
4 This world has been going on for a long time , oh god knows how many , five hundred thousand million bloody years and eventually it 's going to , it , it , it , it 's going to explode and go
5 A charming little intimate orgy has been going on for centuries .
6 ‘ I know that picking the seam has been going on for years , but tampering with the ball is a different matter .
7 ‘ It just seems not a lot has been going right for me this season .
8 Plant collecting has been going on for thousands of years .
9 This phenomenon has been going on for long enough in Shetland waters for it to be given a local name of ‘ fuglicaa ’ , which is derived from old Norse ‘ fugl ’ meaning bird and ‘ caa ’ to drive ( as in sheep ) — literally a ‘ bird-drive ’ .
10 Erm if we knew the answer and this problem has been going on for for nine months .
11 ‘ The Division 's been going out for the last fifteen years ; slowly but surely . ’
12 The work at Grendon Prison has been going on for 30 years .
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