Example sentences of "go [adv] for [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main point is to raise money for Christian Aid , and although preparatory work goes on for many months , the 3 weeks during which the Church is used for sorting , and them selling , seem to bring out all the best feelings . |
| 2 | The list of things to be seen goes on for several pages , and most of them have three stars . |
| 3 | The process goes on for several days , a few polyps occasionally expanding briefly , until finally the coral returns to its former glory . |
| 4 | Well , they 're in detailed discussions , and negotiations are likely to go on for some hours . |
| 5 | Well I think the consideration and the research has got to go on for some time . |
| 6 | Normally , the time is fifteen minutes , and for fifteen minutes it 's five fifty , so if you 've got a lot of hair , it 's quite coarse , it 's going to go on for several months . |
| 7 | I voted for this government because they said they were n't going to go in for that sort of rubbish . |
| 8 | Yes , Americans , erm I have the impression , they 're being rather slow to go in for this sort of Federal legislation . |
| 9 | As we know , the whole indignity that women have to go through for these examinations is , of necessity , I am afraid , an unpleasant experience . |
| 10 | " I had to go away for several days and while I was gone your mother saw some papers in Devraux 's desk . |
| 11 | I have to put him into kennels tomorrow as I have to go away for some time and they insist that he be fully vaccinated . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Erm ironically after I wrote erm the letter was typed on Monday erm to Mr Mr the only lights that have been fixed since are the ones at the end of my street and the next street not as I complained about ones on the main road erm there 's an example that 's been going on for many months where a problem , an acknowledged problem of access existed which was the reason for delay but that as I understand it has been overcome some time ago now and it 's still there , this is a group of seven lights together , the lot , erm these lights are still out , they 're not in my ward in fact , they 're just . |
| 14 | But trying to classify and understand them will show you a good deal about what is going on for that child . |
| 15 | And it 's still going on for another season . |
| 16 | The experiments , however , involved drawing fibres and blowing bubbles of molten glass and one day , after the work had been going on for some months , Lockspeiser went home leaving the gas torch used for melting the glass still burning . |
| 17 | A wider political initiative , with UN armed observers escorting food and convoys , and increased financial output , was not launched until as late as August , by which time looting of food supplies had been going on for some months . |
| 18 | Talks have been going on for some time on a range of scientific matters including fusion , nuclear safety and the environment . |
| 19 | The process has been going on for some time . |
| 20 | I hear his couchée going on for some time . |
| 21 | My head was throbbing and the shoulder was beginning to ache from the kicking , which had probably been going on for some time before I came round . |
| 22 | The argument had been going on for some time . |
| 23 | The argument must have been going on for some time , although Lucien had been hardly aware of it . |
| 24 | One thing Mam said suggested it had been going on for some time … |
| 25 | When questioned they admitted that this state of affairs had been going on for some time . |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't really think they have done enough this has been going on for some time . |
| 27 | Well you say that International Women 's Day has been going on for some time , but here in Britain what 's known as the Women 's Movement has been in operation now for about , what , twenty one/twenty two years , something like that . |
| 28 | These claims were never universally accepted ; the destruction of the unity of Christendom by the Reformation helped to undermine the authority of the Pope to allocate territory , but it was Catholic France that first challenged Spain 's position in the West Indies and that conflict had been going on for some years when in 1559 , at the end of one round of European wars , France and Spain included in the peace treaty a clause which stated that fighting in regions west of the Azores or south of the Tropic of Cancer was not to be taken as a reason for resuming hostilities in Europe . |
| 29 | ‘ My father-in-law was well aware of all this ; it has been going on for some years but he would not do what was necessary to right the situation , that is cut out the loss makers and , perhaps , substitute other lines — stationery , office equipment , videos or any other line compatible with the book trade . ’ |
| 30 | Sometimes a murder enquiry will have been going on for some days before it emerges that there is a sexual element involved . |