Example sentences of "[verb] be go for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm the issue is is that potentially you could be goi we could 've been going for four point three extra people and we probably wo n't do that . |
| 2 | The huge space-based extravaganza has been gone for some time . |
| 3 | ‘ There is a danger in any organisation that has been going for twenty years of attracting a clique and closing the doors on others . |
| 4 | ‘ Our factory in Scotland has been going for 15 years ’ says Smillie . |
| 5 | But the station 's spokesman Jeff Simpson said last night : ‘ It 's a direction in which Radio One has been going for a couple of years . |
| 6 | I suppose I 've seen Matthew with the safe open , and I may have noticed the books , but this firm has been going for more than a century and one does n't take much notice of such things , one has grown up with them . ’ |
| 7 | Providing the plan has been going for ten years . |
| 8 | Although the actual game has been going for over 65 years there was a slight change made in 1943 when the event became a charity match to raise funds for the specific purpose of the prevention of blindness . |
| 9 | The Shrove Tuesday game has been going for 960 years . |
| 10 | Erm I must confess to doubting whether such a pool of talent exists and I share the views er of the Noble Lord , Lord Motterstone who in a very powerful and commonsense speech made this point an and a number of other ones , but I have to say that what I do think exists is the temptation to create posts for friends of the Government , a process of which has been going for far too long and I mem and I wonder if er members on the other side would defend this position as my Noble Friend Lord Allen said earlier , quite sincerely if , say , another party were in power before when such a time arrives it will then be of little avail for them to run around complaining , for they will have sown the seeds of their own dissatisfaction . |
| 11 | They 'll let you do a activity , this has been going for years but they wo n't let you . |
| 12 | Well you have to think , International Women 's Day has been going for just about a hundred years . |
| 13 | But then , when you said they 'd been gone for a couple of years … ’ |
| 14 | I wondered where Toby was — he 'd been gone for over thirty-six hours now . |
| 15 | ‘ You sound as if I 'd been gone for a few hours and forgot to leave you a note . ’ |
| 16 | They 'd been gone for so long now . |
| 17 | Also , the mic was n't giving off the warm , mucky sound he 'd been going for . |
| 18 | I knew that I always overestimated the time these outings took , but I was certain that we 'd been going for over two hours , and still we were crashing on . |
| 19 | So , you did so many miles per hour , we calculated , you would have done so many miles if you 'd been going for a full hour at that speed , so your dis your , your speed , velocity really but we 'll call it speed , right ? |
| 20 | So if you 're doing A level psychol y'know I think perhaps you ought to say , ok what we 'll do is go for less depth but a more general approach . |
| 21 | So , the two golden rules when buying are to go for quality and buy the largest you can afford . |
| 22 | The end of Act I is a recognition scene ; a recognition by the Marschallin of the kind we all experience when we realize that something we cherished is gone for ever . |
| 23 | The only thing to do was to go for a walk . |
| 24 | She must have been going for the six o'clock train , and she was probably in a dickens of a rush when … ’ |
| 25 | she was nearly retiring by the , no still the girls go to her at the school so she must have been going for , two or three years after we came up here , but I would be in the choir just , maybe two or three years . |
| 26 | Cos what we 're doing is going for each N tuple we go through each set of states here . |
| 27 | I 'm a fool , she thought tearfully , knowing the very last vestiges of the shaky companionship they shared were gone for good . |
| 28 | I mean , I do n't know I , you see I left I had to come here so I left before Bob Monkhouse and everything , I just , I , all I did was go for couple of free drinks and plate of free food , which , I do n't think I got . |
| 29 | In fact , practically all I did was to go for solitary walks or pretend to read Virgil or Sophocles , whose two dead languages were now as meaningless to me as mental arithmetic , and as incapable of claiming my concentration . |
| 30 | Jasper and Bert had been gone for ten days . |