Example sentences of "go [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even now , there are those churlish souls who mourn the fact that Lovesexy is not a There 's a Riot Goin' On for the eighties . |
| 2 | There 's a racket goin' on , Aggie ; but you know as well as me it 's been goin' on for years . |
| 3 | After the deluge , life goes on for trout |
| 4 | The show always goes on for Shirley |
| 5 | The street goes on for ages , but it 's pretty interesting . |
| 6 | If the war goes on for long , the anxieties will increase . |
| 7 | Be aware of the time limit : no election campaign goes on for more than three or four weeks in the United Kingdom — be glad about that ! |
| 8 | Some unilateral plant closures can be expected , Campbell predicted — if the crisis goes on for long or gets worse . |
| 9 | Verbal presentations often fail because the speaker tries to cram too much into too short a time , or goes on for far too long . |
| 10 | The search now goes on for cancers over a wider area . |
| 11 | The enjoyment of gross physical activity goes on for a long time , progressing to skipping and rushing-about games . |
| 12 | The room has no corners , no walls — it goes on for ever , it merges with a moonlit garden . |
| 13 | The process goes on for several days , a few polyps occasionally expanding briefly , until finally the coral returns to its former glory . |
| 14 | It sometimes cures itself , or sometimes goes on for years . |
| 15 | So the good life goes on for George . |
| 16 | As the hunt goes on for the missing millions of the family 's crashed empire , Pandora , 32 , beamed as she declared : ‘ People will probably wonder how on earth Kevin managed it with all he 's got on his mind . ’ |
| 17 | There are the inevitable distilleries : an industry that goes on for ever . |
| 18 | P : I was coming home from a party with Robert Mitchum drinking cider when one of Shane 's gang came out and stabbed me in the arm … ( goes on for about ten more pages — Freudian Ed ) |
| 19 | It also goes on for bloody ages . |
| 20 | There are , of course , many occupations in which similar demands of constant readiness are made , but when it goes on for twenty years or more it is inclined to upset a good domestic relationship . |
| 21 | It 's best to have a time limit for a team 's deliberations — say thirty seconds — or the game goes on for ever . |
| 22 | It goes on for a minute . |
| 23 | That 's why it might be better to think of the Universe as not having a boundary — it goes on for ever . |
| 24 | THE WORLD HAS stopped making sense again , and Odilo forgets everything again ( which is probably just as well ) , and the war is over now ( and it seems pretty clear to me that we lost it ) , and life goes on for a little while . |
| 25 | The list of things to be seen goes on for several pages , and most of them have three stars . |
| 26 | It goes on for ever . |
| 27 | Lack of sleep , if the baby is demanding to be feed every two hours or so day and night , can be hell if it goes on for long . |
| 28 | ‘ But you will , if this goes on for much longer . |
| 29 | But what 's the point of holding a meeting that goes on for more than twelve hours ? |
| 30 | The transcript goes on for pages and pages , and not a single word was said about any of those increases being phased in . |