Example sentences of "have 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 She must have been going for the six o'clock train , and she was probably in a dickens of a rush when … ’
21 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 .
22 Jasper and Bert had been gone for ten days .
23 He had been gone for a long time .
24 The others had been gone for an hour by the time she was ready to leave .
25 And , the way things had been going for Gerhard Berger , it was perhaps no surprise that it should be his McLaren which would suffer that fate .
26 They could get hot water , but only after the fire had been going for a while and the back boiler had heated up .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 ’ — and the Project had been going for so long , you see .
30 Now of course , in a , in a complete psychoanalysis , if Woodrow Wilson had been going for analysis , then all kinds of other aspects of his life and personality would have opened up .
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