Example sentences of "going for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She potters over , ‘ I 'm going for a walk , so if I feel sick I wo n't puke all over your lawn . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ There 's only a few minutes left , they 'll never … wait wait , Steven has it , he 's come from nowhere and yes , he 's going for a shot ! … ’ |
| 3 | Time will tell whether collecting the alpine 4000ers will become as popular as Munro bagging , but for a real challenge , how about going for a complete set of 150 peaks and 4000m tops ! |
| 4 | A sample : We 're coming in to land at Speke My legs are feeling very weak We 've just returned from Barcelona And now I 'm going for a sauna Toshack is of Scottish descent , and there is certainly a bit of McGonagall in there , though not the best bit . |
| 5 | But , said Ramsey , the idea that we can get Christian unity by going for a highest common factor and leaving everything else in the shadow will not work . |
| 6 | Team captain Peter Blyth will be going for a hat trick of wins as captain — all with different teams . |
| 7 | But I was not going for a bus ride , I was looking for the gents . |
| 8 | Tony announces that he is off for a crumble , an expression that has taken his fancy and replaced the computerese of going for a ‘ system dump . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm going for a juice , ’ she said . |
| 10 | will provide enough fuel to keep a WWF forestry team Landrover going for a week . |
| 11 | £25 will provide enough fuel to keep a WWF forestry team Landrover going for a week . |
| 12 | Going for a mere $50m , the Empire State Building is up for sale . |
| 13 | Although he made a huge bonfire of his papers and correspondence in 1916 , and kept it going for a few days , Edward preserved all her letters along with his notebooks . |
| 14 | Desmond Haynes ' first taste of Test captaincy was not a very happy experience , going for a duck in the first innings , dropping a catch and demeaning himself with the sledging as the match slipped away . |
| 15 | She was often offered lifts , but when she said , thank you , but she was going for a walk , a pitying expression spread over the faces of the drivers . |
| 16 | ‘ You mean you could n't just say you were going for a walk ? ’ |
| 17 | Dot tried to imagine that the two women in front were her footmen and she was one of the royal princesses , preferably Margaret because she would n't have to be queen which would be quite a responsibility if you thought about it , going for a drive in a carriage with her regal dogs and her regal flowers . |
| 18 | Then she realized she did n't have to pretend to be anyone going anywhere when she already was herself going for a real drive in a car with two dogs beside her and fresh flowers behind . |
| 19 | Me and my mate , here , we 're just going for a little ride . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ No good going for a soldier if you ca n't show a little decision of your own . ’ |
| 21 | My proles are a bit wary of them , when they see the steam they think they 're going for a mess of pottage . |
| 22 | She will also be going for a different image . |
| 23 | However , it is still difficult to imagine the slim person going for a real blow-out , or having dinner , going to the pub , then calling into an Indian Restaurant for a further meal before going home . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm going for a drink with Miss Hayes-Drummond . |
| 25 | He was found by a mountain rescue team near his home in Edmondstown , Rhondda , on Sunday , six days after going for a walk with his two terriers named Sweep and Red . |
| 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 | Even if the committee agree to a grant , it ca n't be more than a couple of thousand — not enough to keep you going for a few months . |
| 28 | Brookhouse was fortunate for , as the cloth trade went into decline , it managed to attract a new industry that enabled it to keep going for a century longer than many of its counterparts . |
| 29 | We thought we were going for a month or so , until the fighting died down . |
| 30 | You know the last time I went back to Britain , I was going for a month but I changed my flight and left two weeks early . |