Example sentences of "[noun pl] have gone [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pauchling the figures has gone on for so long that even the newscasters have got sloppy , mostly failing to add the rider that the bald headcount does not include anybody excluded from claiming benefit for whatever reason . |
| 2 | And black dancers had gone in for contemporary or modern dance because they had felt ballet to be a white art form to be watched by white people . ’ |
| 3 | Madam Speaker in view of the fact that the real value of pensions has gone down for many years now following the break . |
| 4 | Where once dockers and carmen had gone in for breakfast or a midday meal they now sat around drinking mugs of tea and eating slices of toast and dripping . |
| 5 | I kept just killing time until it had gone eleven o'clock and all the cinema-goers had gone in for the late shows , at which point I decided to call it a day . |
| 6 | with , with , with it , with it before I actually got involved after negotiations had gone through for the remo for the moving of the tenants . |
| 7 | The grown ups having gone out for the evening we then kept awake alternately for half-hour shifts by one of the boy 's watches until at long last we were rewarded by the sound of creaking and thumps from the stairs , accompanied by slurry avuncular curses and " shushes " from the aunts . |
| 8 | The seat includes most of Leeds University 's halls of residence ( ‘ it 's a political blessing the students have gone down for Easter , ’ admits Dr Hampson ) and the well-heeled town of Otley , where the 200-bed hospital does hip replacement jobs on patients from Cornwall and Kent . |
| 9 | England then collapsed in wonderfully spectacular fashion ; Rose made 41 , but until Willis joined Willey everyone else had failed dismally and nine wickets had gone down for 92 . |
| 10 | They put on 24 after the previous six wickets had gone down for 40 . |