Example sentences of "[adv] go [adv] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a pleasant voice , with an undertone of humour , and Alexandra was immediately jealous , envisaging Matthew and his secretary in his office , laughing together , sharing jokes about his work , perhaps going out for a quick meal before they both went home . |
| 2 | There was still enough money and enough going on for a ‘ hot ’ property like Nicholson to walk in and begin making fortunes immediately . |
| 3 | ‘ We 're only going away for a weekend , for heaven 's sake ! |
| 4 | Cos we 're only going away for a weekend then are n't we ? |
| 5 | ‘ They were apparently going away for a long weekend vacation . |
| 6 | Mm Oh that would be alright if we go yeah we can all go over for a nice little run out |
| 7 | In fact , knew it for certain when , ‘ Since you 're not going anywhere for a while , perhaps you 'd like to take a seat now , ’ he suggested . |
| 8 | I am bound to say My Lords that my own view is still that the size within the limits laid down by statute with a minimum of sixteen or eighteen and maximum of twenty-four would best be determined locally and if we 're not going in for a national police force , I still ca n't see what it has to do with the Secretary of State and why the Home Office should be settling the size of forty-three or so police authorities . |
| 9 | You 're not going back for a month ? |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm just going out for a minute , Mam , I wo n't be long . ’ |
| 11 | Kissing or touching another man in a sexual way or even just going out for a drink without telling a partner is regarded by most as being unfaithful . |
| 12 | ‘ I thought we were just going out for a couple of hours ! ’ she protested hotly . |
| 13 | with , with my granddaughter , she , she did the same s she used to go and babysit at this girl 's house and she fe felt , she was only fourteen , and she felt sorry for her and she 'd go and babysit every night she 'd go and babysit and er but she used to b sit up in the bedroom , she never ever went down the sitting room thinking that the child 's mother was either down in the sitting room or just going out for a short while and coming back and then eventually they put erm a bed up in the child 's bedroom for Denise to stay there over nights and Pearl did n't worry at all , well she knew , knew where , at least she knew where and er this girl was bringing men back down in the sitting room every night , three or four , sometimes ten men in a night during the night ! |
| 14 | I 'm just going out for a bit . |
| 15 | Pike was standing by a wooden rack of pamphlets , including What Has Old Mother Walsh to Say to Us ? and a large , colourful one for the kiddies entitled Daddy is n't Dead , He 's Just Gone Out for a Bit . |
| 16 | Even when I arrived back at Thornfield , I did not go in for a while . |
| 17 | The 31-year-old ex-paratrooper 's prize for retaining his title at Wembley on Saturday night was £10,000 , which does not go far for a full-time body builder who downs half a dozen eggs after his breakfast cereal and eight to 10 chicken breasts a day when ‘ bulking up ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ One does not go out for a meal just for the food , ’ he added , hardly improving the situation . |
| 19 | book anything up , just go over for a week . |
| 20 | Just go away for a week — two at the most . ’ |
| 21 | Ca n't think in the arts , in the art bit so I just I just go in for a coffee as well , yeah . |
| 22 | We just go down for a bit of practice a few nights before . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I just go out for a bit , just for an hour or two , and when I come back you ai n't even got the kettle on . |
| 24 | It , it , it just went on for a lit a short time afterwards but er , but when the war ended course things , some things changed pretty rapidly as you can appreciate but , but by this time I , I was working for Ellwells then on long distance transport and we used to have to go and fetch tractors or bulldozers that had got armour plating on from Dagenham docks and bring them up here and start selling them to civic contractors and the , the Americans were selling a lot of equipment as well at end of the war , and I saw money made overnight like , people were buying the lorries and putting them on the road you know for work and transport firms and all that and they were getting some of them for next to nothing |
| 25 | It 's always the programmer — it 's very , very seldom the computer — and if I could just go on for a minute , I feel it 's essential that young children , particularly in the primary schools , get used to using hardware and programing , so that they will see the computer as part of their normal lives , like reading and writing and anything else they use . |
| 26 | No , well that 's it int it ? so er if things are reasonable we might just go away for a long weekend or something , go find us a place in Southport for a weekend |
| 27 | You can just go up for a ride , letting someone else do all the work while you enjoy the sensation , or learn to pilot the thing for yourself . |
| 28 | Ah ye , no I mean like go out for a |
| 29 | He had two holidays a year : in May he usually went abroad for a fortnight , then in October he would have another fortnight somewhere in this country . ’ |
| 30 | It is well known that local reversals of movement occur and may possibly go on for a number of years . |