Example sentences of "have gone [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It has gone on for 15 months and so far most firms have managed to survive , but they ca n't go on like this for ever . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ It has gone on for 15 months and so far most firms have managed to survive , but they ca n't go on like this for ever . ’ |
| 3 | The WRU and its leading 18 clubs are deadlocked over the issue of leagues , with no sign of a thaw in the cold war between the two bodies which has gone on for two years . |
| 4 | ‘ What has made it particularly difficult , for manufacturers of all sizes , but most of all for smaller ones , is that it has gone on for a long time . |
| 5 | This saga has gone on for quite some time . |
| 6 | In Wales the club-v-country argument has gone on for longer even than the locust years — a constant , nagging reminder of the manifold and manifest divisions that have wrought such damage on Welsh rugby . |
| 7 | This separation has gone on for far too long . |
| 8 | Daily assessment has gone on for all these years , with tests occasionally being undertaken — that is a reality . |
| 9 | Hon. Members will have an opportunity to debate the Bill , but , whatever happens , it is far better to have a system that is more accountable to local people and that will , we hope , put an end to some of the ridiculous mismanagement , inefficiency and wasting of money that has gone on for far too long . |
| 10 | Helen Lockwood , director of Teesside Society for the Blind , said : ‘ Nothing seems to be happening and this has gone on for so long now . |
| 11 | This one has gone on for so much longer — two years so far with no sign of it coming to an end . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Madam Speaker in view of the fact that the real value of pensions has gone down for many years now following the break . |
| 14 | Bantam has gone back for nearly 400,000 Maya Angelou paperbacks . |
| 15 | It had not been lived in recently it had none of that slight warmth of humanity you find in a dwelling whose inhabitant has gone out for the day . |
| 16 | Now an appeal has gone out for more than 100 of the former workers to lodge applications for payment , no matter the circumstances of their claim . |
| 17 | MY Mont Blanc fountain pen is en panne and has gone in for repairs . |
| 18 | As you may already realise , once again the Almeida has gone in for a lot of posh posturing got up as a drama of social consciousness . |
| 19 | how much was n't held until after I 'd gone up for the money for Matthew 's back . |
| 20 | Pat : He was six months old and I 'd gone down for his second immunisation and I mean the doctor I went to see was a family doctor — I 've known him since I was a baby — and he just , he was looking at him and he just said , ‘ Is your husband Chinese ? ’ |
| 21 | We 'd gone back for something for them to do something to it , it is the Metropolitan . |
| 22 | Then they 'd gone in for a look . |
| 23 | Without exception they were splattered in paint as if they 'd gone in for action art . |
| 24 | So then this fellow comes to the phone , obviously his missus had entered it and he did n't have a bloody clue that she 'd gone in for it and he 'd just come home from work and er Annika Rice there , saying oh where is she ? |
| 25 | I assaulted this position from every angle , ranging from thoughtful analyses of the male mid-life crisis , its nature and origins , to sweeping ad absurdum dismissals in which I demonstrated that by the same token Trish and Brian were equally culpable , because if they 'd gone out for the day I would have stayed at home and we would never have met in the first place . |
| 26 | She wondered if the others were playing a joke on her : perhaps they 'd gone out for a walk ; perhaps , at this very moment , they were laughing at the thought of her waiting for a killer who would never come . |
| 27 | Obviously he 'd gone out for cigarettes , or lunch — or perhaps — it was a sudden exciting hope — he was upstairs in John 's room , waiting for me there . |
| 28 | I had this octopus once in Germany and it , we 'd gone out for a meal and I was gon na have steak and mushrooms and |
| 29 | She could have gone on for hours . |
| 30 | I defended myself stoutly by pointing out that the alternative was to break off negotiations , with a dispute that could have gone on for months at great cost to the health of the nation . |