Example sentences of "go [adv prt] for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's a racket goin' on , Aggie ; but you know as well as me it 's been goin' on for years . |
| 2 | The question is how do you break into the cycle and make that happen , and I think the answer is , as I said , in two ways — one by making teachers more aware during their period of initial training , either at college or at university or polytechnic , and secondly by looking very carefully at the amount and type of in-service training erm that goes on for teachers once they 've left college and are in the schools . |
| 3 | The question is how do you break into the cycle and make that happen , and I think the answer is , as I said , in two ways — one by making teachers more aware during their period of initial training , either at college or at university or polytechnic , and secondly by looking very carefully at the amount and type of in-service training erm that goes on for teachers once they 've left college and are in the schools . |
| 4 | The street goes on for ages , but it 's pretty interesting . |
| 5 | No , I could tell you a really boring joke that goes on for ages . |
| 6 | The search now goes on for cancers over a wider area . |
| 7 | The transcript goes on for pages and pages , and not a single word was said about any of those increases being phased in . |
| 8 | It sometimes cures itself , or sometimes goes on for years . |
| 9 | The hearings are likely to go on for months . |
| 10 | Today 's ‘ continuous ’ culture processes are designed to go on for months without completely emptying the fermenter . |
| 11 | And one man who seemed to go on for years was Cecil Dunford or " Slap " as he was known , an active man in all his pursuits in the village . |
| 12 | And then , at half past eight , we used to have to get everything ready for breakfast and have it all ready ; and then we had to go in for prayers . |
| 13 | But the Greeks , though they enjoy buying the products of other people 's factories , are stubbornly reluctant to go in for factories themselves . |
| 14 | My , my watch is the one Irene bought me gone wrong , it 's had to go in for repairs . |
| 15 | I do n't know how often Rotherhithe goes in for gunfights , but this could be one of ours . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Doubtless he visits the alehouse when he goes in for supplies . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't think Zeinab goes in for compromises much , ’ said Owen gloomily . |
| 18 | Yeah , I mean it 's been going on for ages |
| 19 | And it bounced and bounced and bounced and I thought it was going on for ages but it did n't . |
| 20 | Do you know it is , it 's a little tiny but it 's going on for ages and ages . |
| 21 | And the piss was going on for ages . |
| 22 | These steps into a wider world were part of a great process of expansion by western Europe that had already been going on for decades . |
| 23 | The relationship between cash crops , particularly those for export , and subsistence crops for local consumption , has occasioned an intense and sometimes bitter debate that has been going on for decades , if not centuries , and goes to the very heart of the global capitalist system and its transnational contradictions . |
| 24 | In many , the enclosure award of Georgian days was only the final clearing-up of remnants of open field that survived after piecemeal enclosure had been going on for generations or even centuries . |
| 25 | Almost equally important was the ending , by a series of agreements in 1745 , 1773 and 1790 , of a struggle for influence which had been going on for generations between the Reichskanzlei ( Imperial Chancery ) under its hereditary head , the Elector of Mainz , and the Hofkanzlei ( the Chancery of the Habsburg hereditary lands ) . |
| 26 | I thought this phone call had been going on for hours . |
| 27 | But Folly was in no mood to have her character analysed — and she knew that once her mother started on her favourite hobby-horse she was quite capable for going on for hours . |
| 28 | She would phone the police and they would go out of their way to search her garden and reassure her of their vigilance , but it had been going on for years . |
| 29 | During a civil action that has been going on for years over ownership , he was made a ward of court and his bones kept in shoe boxes in a bank . ’ |
| 30 | A sort of messy , mucky drama has been going on for years , about unselectivity and conglomeration : ‘ Let them have the experience , all of them , every one of them , every minute of every time ! ’ ( p. 8 ) . |