Example sentences of "go [adv prt] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It goes on for a minute . |
| 2 | The Parks tournament at Calderstones Park , which starts on July 19 and goes on for a week , will have the added bonus of the Dunlop tennis roadshow , with Castle and other leading coaches topping the bill . |
| 3 | Yes if she 's coming out you mean you do n't , you do n't have to do it all tonight she wan might want to be talking about erm her grading a lot so you ca n't expect her to do any work until she 's got that out of her system she might want to go on for an hour or so . |
| 4 | At first it was like leaning into a thick , inert sponge , and that seemed to go on for an age . |
| 5 | You know , the computer goes down for a hour , it 's three-quarters of the day to get everything back and validated , and that 's a major interruption . |
| 6 | Firemen were called to the river Taff in Llandaff to rescue Eric , a 10-stone Irish Wolfhound who had got into deep water after deciding to go in for a swim . |
| 7 | You need the permission of the owner to go in for a title search so you 'd have to know the owner first . |
| 8 | I 'd like to go in for a bit , but there 's loads of people in there and I ai n't got no washing to do . |
| 9 | She had been accepted for the job at Ardis & Co , looking the way she normally looked , but if to keep her job — and she had no idea at that stage whether there was a Vasey junior , or similar , at G Vasey Ltd — she had to go in for a bit of de glamorisation , then so be it . |
| 10 | One of my other SCOTTISH OFFICE contacts has asked me to go in for a sandwich lunch on Wednesday ( 25th ) , which is kind . |
| 11 | Chris , tall , lithe and manly , strips off and goes in for a swim in his panda-briefs . |
| 12 | Yeah , and if goes in for a pint he gives you a packet now . |
| 13 | A packet now , goes in for a pint . |
| 14 | He goes in for a sort of hall-of-mirrors self-impersonation , telling people how he would have done the murder if he had done it ( which he has ) . |
| 15 | Spike , of course , kept saying " He wants us to go down for a drink . " |
| 16 | I 'd say we 'll have to do more than that , I 'd say we 'll have to go down for a week . |
| 17 | The laibon goes off for a moment and returns wearing his cloak as the old lady produces some stools . |
| 18 | Nosey parkering round the piles of recently acquired books while her hostess goes off for a pee , she announces on Rainbow 's return — ‘ I was right . |
| 19 | When the baby cries a lot , and Lesley gets angry with her , I tell her to go off for an hour and I 'll look after her . |
| 20 | Mm , er what to think , oh I ca n't think of any words , oh we 're going to go off for an interview now anyway . |
| 21 | ‘ It has been going on for a while — but not on the scale it is happening now . |
| 22 | This was going on for a couple of days , so I was getting worried and I took him to the prison doctor and he says , ‘ It might be with you breastfeeding , try him on the bottle . ’ |
| 23 | I lived in my house for going on for a year |
| 24 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 25 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 26 | But certainly by the end of the 17th century there was a huge concert up there at this time of the morning going on for an hour . |
| 27 | Now I did not have the slightest intention of going down for a drink : all the drinking I was going to do was at the reception — if I ever got to the wedding . |
| 28 | But erm you see , they suggested going down for a meeting he 's up to his eyes in it ! |
| 29 | I 'm going down for a week from 10 May to see many of them . |
| 30 | he 's applied to the Metropolitan police , he 's going down for an interview in June |