Example sentences of "[verb] go [adv prt] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like a car needs to go in for the M O T , you 've got ta |
| 2 | It had not been lived in recently it had none of that slight warmth of humanity you find in a dwelling whose inhabitant has gone out for the day . |
| 3 | how much was n't held until after I 'd gone up for the money for Matthew 's back . |
| 4 | I assaulted this position from every angle , ranging from thoughtful analyses of the male mid-life crisis , its nature and origins , to sweeping ad absurdum dismissals in which I demonstrated that by the same token Trish and Brian were equally culpable , because if they 'd gone out for the day I would have stayed at home and we would never have met in the first place . |
| 5 | Nicky Cruz and his gang , the Mau Maus , decide to go along for the ride … . |
| 6 | So they all must have gone out for the dinner . |
| 7 | The grown ups having gone out for the evening we then kept awake alternately for half-hour shifts by one of the boy 's watches until at long last we were rewarded by the sound of creaking and thumps from the stairs , accompanied by slurry avuncular curses and " shushes " from the aunts . |
| 8 | Started as they meant to go on for the holiday . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ It would have been just like Jean to have gone along for the journey . ’ |
| 11 | We 're chasing up two other people who were at that party , and who both seem to have gone out for the day . |
| 12 | The driver of the van had been wanted for questioning , and the way CI5 had gone in for the arrest had clearly been the direct cause of the van 's destruction on the hot end of the booby-trap bomb it had been carrying . |
| 13 | What I had meant to say was that he was being inducted as a churchwarden , and the two of them had gone off for the ceremony — my friend was having a busy day ! |
| 14 | ‘ You have to go out for the kids , you have to go to the schools and sign autographs . |
| 15 | I phoned Kevin , I 've got Kevin 's mum and dad 's phone number off Dave and phoned at home but he 's gone out for the day or something they said . |