Example sentences of "go [adv prt] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like all long-term coughers he had developed a noise-reducing technique , and all that could be heard was a chuck-chuck-chuck sound that would go on for long minutes at a time , gradually winding down like a clockwork drummer until every scrap of air was squeezed out of his poor concrete lungs . |
| 2 | And they 'd go on for many years with incredible perseverance , believing when they had no reason to believe , when it was crazy for them to believe . |
| 3 | Describing the American feature film , The Last Temptation of Christ , to which he awarded a certificate , as a challenging religious film he said that acontroversial scene : ‘ It indicated that Christ had sex , but it did not go on for 14 minutes . ’ |
| 4 | Like a true professional , Floyd was determined the show would go on for New Year 's Eve at his pub , the Maltsters Arms . |
| 5 | But did n't it go on for such a long time ! |
| 6 | This can go on for two hours or more , until all the eggs have been laid . |
| 7 | the project will go on for two or three weeks . |
| 8 | ‘ There 's no reason why I ca n't go on for 200 goals and I do n't agree with the argument that you should retire at the top . |
| 9 | But it 's important not to say they 've only got two minutes for something , and then let them go on for ten . |
| 10 | ‘ I can go on for another three or four years yet because I 'm still as fit as a fiddle , ’ he said . |
| 11 | The troubles are going on for over 20 years and the NI Office is doing very little about it , so it could go on for another 20 years . |
| 12 | John looked at his watch , ‘ Come on Mary , we can go on for another ten minutes and I 'd like to find out what is around that bend . ’ |
| 13 | So use the opportunity , get a return , make them take a good look at you and then you know you 're alright and can go on for another couple of years and make them look at you again . |
| 14 | Are you saying you 're quite prepared to let them , how they cut it , you 'll let it go on for another two years without you doing anything about it ? |
| 15 | And it 's gon na get worse if this situation of er you know erm jobs and that is gon na go on for another two years . |
| 16 | It will go on for another while anyway we hope . |
| 17 | This can go on for several hours on a number of occasions two hundred or more eggs have been counted . |
| 18 | He says time may be running out — it has run out for alot … this may go on for several more years — we have n't go several more years . |
| 19 | Erm , and , and I think sadly , as well the problem is that if this recession does go on for any length of time then we will be losing many of our |
| 20 | But the Queen will see just about every past and present RAF aircraft a flypast which will go on for three quarters of an hour . |
| 21 | The conference will go on for 3 days . |
| 22 | Playing hard to get is a game which can go on for some considerable time , especially if one has as ardent a suitor as the French . |
| 23 | An ‘ abstract ’ — a summary of your claim in not more than 150 words — needs to be written for this stage , which may go on for some time . |
| 24 | I could go on for some time sir , but I will now proceed to the technical planning matters . |
| 25 | ‘ This may go on for some time , Christina , and could get very complicated . |
| 26 | ‘ The feasting would go on for seven days . |
| 27 | ‘ And she did n't go in for violent amateur dramatics with a bunch of friends ? ’ |
| 28 | ‘ We are not a national daily ; we do not go in for moral crusades . ’ |
| 29 | I do n't think there 's a very great deal in the way of er lighting fittings one can talk about erm in houses in Harlow , it 's er , there 's a , a distinct difference between the light , a lot , lot of architects in , in Harlow have lived in Harlow you see and they will go in for all the very latest type of lighting fittings erm and because they have er access to the books for the various er designers of lighting fittings er , generally though , they , the majority of the people in the town er have come from er London boroughs and erm they view the same kind of lighting fittings they 've always been used to . |
| 30 | But the non-conformists did n't go in for much decoration . |