Example sentences of "to go [adv] for [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been accepted for the job at Ardis & Co , looking the way she normally looked , but if to keep her job — and she had no idea at that stage whether there was a Vasey junior , or similar , at G Vasey Ltd — she had to go in for a bit of de glamorisation , then so be it . |
| 2 | The National Lottery will be the enemy of proper planning in all areas ; it will encourage short-term thinking , and it will be the perfect excuse for the Treasury to go in for the kind of sleight-of-hand just described . |
| 3 | Maurice was deserted , Maurice having been invited , as he quite often was , to go down for the day to Brighton . |
| 4 | He had hidden it , thinking it would come in useful if he persuaded any girls to go away for the weekend with him . |
| 5 | A couple of weeks later , just as most of the officers and men of the Allied Screening Commission in Verona were preparing to go off for the weekend to the country , an enormous , chauffeur-driven Fiat motor car with a flag on the front of it rolled up in the drive . |
| 6 | Last night angry shareholders called on the Deanses to go now for the good of the 117-year-old club . |
| 7 | We used to have a lunch break at around about half past ten I think ti was , we used to go out for a quarter of an hour into the school yard to play and have your lunch . |
| 8 | They arranged to go out for a drink on the second evening , although Kathleen was n't really looking forward to it as it was bound to turn into a ‘ What was the name of that blonde with the big chest ? ’ sort of session and she would end up driving them both home and quite likely putting them both to bed ! |
| 9 | I want to go out for a ride in the open air . ’ |
| 10 | it 's no good I 'm gon na have to go out for a breath of fresh air . |
| 11 | Most people are ready to go out for the evening at that time , ’ laughs Ted . |
| 12 | I said if you had n't I 'd get you to go back for a chat with him . ’ |
| 13 | She leant forward , saying she wanted to go back for a moment to what the TV presenter had said about Jim Lancaster . |