Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] be go for " in BNC.

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1 ‘ You sound as if I 'd been gone for a few hours and forgot to leave you a note . ’
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 ‘ Take my word for it , I 've been going for 30 years since the well was a bucket in a hole in the ground , and there is plenty of water , ’ she said .
5 I 've been going for so long I can do everything .
6 I have been going for 18 years and you get fan-tastic value for money , ’ he said .
7 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 ?
8 In a quiet , gentle , but troubled voice , Cardiff said , ‘ You 've been gone for twenty-six years , Barbara . ’
9 She 's been going for that ra is it radium ?
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 she said ‘ We 've been going for two months with very long hours . ’
13 Er , we 've been going for twenty six years er , and we now manage around about three thousand properties and are building er and selling around about seven hundred properties a year for , for rent and low cost home ownership .
14 Well , we 've been going for , I should think , about eighteen months in hospitals in Oxford , looking at ways in which we can give better information to consultants to help them to be more in charge of their own destiny .
15 I 'm a fool , she thought tearfully , knowing the very last vestiges of the shaky companionship they shared were gone for good .
16 But then , when you said they 'd been gone for a couple of years … ’
17 They 'd been gone for so long now .
18 They 've been going for years , they 've been making motor oils , engine oil , it 's called filtrate so that 's the liquid .
19 This is a firm and they 've been going for a number of years .
20 They 've been going for twenty years and er there 's er school is very much , I would have put you straight into schools
21 I wondered where Toby was — he 'd been gone for over thirty-six hours now .
22 Also , the mic was n't giving off the warm , mucky sound he 'd been going for .
23 Anyhow , it had been going for a very short time , not very satisfactory , because none of us really were very successful with our machine , and then a … messenger came in to say that a [ radio ] taxi driver had come into No. 10 to say he 's heard everything going on in his taxi in Whitehall .
24 Unfortunately one day when it was earlier on he , he got his commands mixed up and we was m marching down the yard and the drive , and we was marching towards the factory up and down and right wheel and about turn , left wheel , basic foot drill you know it had been going for about ten minutes and all and we was going down towards the factory and erm we kept on going , we was getting close to the factory and he , he he forgot his words forgot what er command he wanted to give and he shouted stop you 'll be in the bloody factory in a minute instead of sa shouting halt , you know , he , he got flummoxed .
25 Oh it had been going for quite some time , I do n't know really when they would start .
26 Do you know Dave I read erm we there 's a magazine called Good Housekeeping and it 's been going for it had been going for seventy years , last year it started in nineteen twenty one , women 's magazine , very good one and they had a sort of seventieth birthday issue
27 He had been gone for a long time .
28 a standard Anglepoise lamp er which it 's been going for a number of years , you can get it in about six different colours to match different designs of , er put colour into your room , now if somebody was spending a lot of time sitting knitting and has to look at the knitting or has to look at the pattern then er a good strong light which wo n't get in their eyes but goes straight on to what , whatever they 're doing , is by far the best thing for them , er but they say oh I do n't like it , it 's a bit angular is n't it , erm , modern sort of thing , er but because it 's angular it does n't mean to say it 's not gon na fit into the room it 's the right thing for it , er for the person doing that work .
29 Everyone remembers Star Trek , it 's been going for twenty five years
30 in time and it 's been going for about five years .
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