Example sentences of "[vb base] [be] go for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a quiet , gentle , but troubled voice , Cardiff said , ‘ You 've been gone for twenty-six years , Barbara . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Take my word for it , I 've been going for 30 years since the well was a bucket in a hole in the ground , and there is plenty of water , ’ she said . |
| 3 | she said ‘ We 've been going for two months with very long hours . ’ |
| 4 | Er , we 've been going for twenty six years er , and we now manage around about three thousand properties and are building er and selling around about seven hundred properties a year for , for rent and low cost home ownership . |
| 5 | They 've been going for years , they 've been making motor oils , engine oil , it 's called filtrate so that 's the liquid . |
| 6 | I 've been going for so long I can do everything . |
| 7 | This is a firm and they 've been going for a number of years . |
| 8 | They 've been going for twenty years and er there 's er school is very much , I would have put you straight into schools |
| 9 | Well , we 've been going for , I should think , about eighteen months in hospitals in Oxford , looking at ways in which we can give better information to consultants to help them to be more in charge of their own destiny . |
| 10 | Micropal measures volatility for all unit trusts which have been going for three years . |
| 11 | ‘ I have been going for 18 years and you get fan-tastic value for money , ’ he said . |
| 12 | Microsoft 's have been going for $69 . |
| 13 | Although Jacquard looms have been going for over 100 years , improvements are still being carried out . |
| 14 | Circuses have been going for two hundred years . |
| 15 | and outside the porches , to light their number up outside their house , erm people do n't seem to have erm , really changed their ideas very much , we still sell the same type of fitting to people , er the one that goes over the garage doors , on the corner of the , of the house wall , er lanterns er outside the front door with coloured glass in them er things that have been going for |
| 16 | Remember estate agents have been going for so long they say , Oh is that another folder ? |
| 17 | Thunderbirds have been going for over half a century … and with the next generation Its they 're set to continue for another twenty five years Fab . |
| 18 | The schools , which cater for boys aged from 11 to 14 , have been going for five years now and are organised by Robbie Walker , Tottenham 's representative in Northern Ireland . |
| 19 | It looks like the Army and Navy have been going for hundreds of years , Army and Navy Stores |