Example sentences of "[verb] go [adv prt] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Thank you , but I do n't want to go out for a meal tonight . ’ |
| 2 | I want to go out for a ride in the open air . ’ |
| 3 | Oh well might have perhaps will you have a spare day No I want to go out for a meal No , but I been home but at dinner time just . |
| 4 | they tried to go out for a meal , I do n't know whether it was christmas day or boxing day down in and they could n't get n in nowhere , I said well you would n't on a boxing day ! |
| 5 | As you may already realise , once again the Almeida has gone in for a lot of posh posturing got up as a drama of social consciousness . |
| 6 | Then they 'd gone in for a look . |
| 7 | She wondered if the others were playing a joke on her : perhaps they 'd gone out for a walk ; perhaps , at this very moment , they were laughing at the thought of her waiting for a killer who would never come . |
| 8 | I had this octopus once in Germany and it , we 'd gone out for a meal and I was gon na have steak and mushrooms and |
| 9 | My hon. Friend the Member for Norfolk , North ( Mr. Howell ) spoke recently on the radio about his idea of paying , say , £100 a week to people joining a community task force , enabling them to obtain work experience and contribute to society , which does not simply mean filling in holes in the road but involves going in for a range of useful activities , from working on environmental improvements to caring for the vulnerable in society . |
| 10 | Firemen were called to the river Taff in Llandaff to rescue Eric , a 10-stone Irish Wolfhound who had got into deep water after deciding to go in for a swim . |
| 11 | ‘ Would you like to go out for a drink ? ’ |
| 12 | I met him at my wee cousin 's wedding — he was the Best Man — he says to me would you like to go out for a bite to eat ? |
| 13 | I 'd like to go in for a bit , but there 's loads of people in there and I ai n't got no washing to do . |
| 14 | If you are aiming to go back for a landing , only stay long enough in that thermal to get properly centred before moving off again down to 1500 feet and starting to look for the next bit of lift . |
| 15 | 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 ! |
| 16 | I 'd say we 'll have to do more than that , I 'd say we 'll have to go down for a week . |
| 17 | yeah so I mean he said we 're gon na have to go out for a drink and sit down and discuss it , you know |
| 18 | it 's no good I 'm gon na have to go out for a breath of fresh air . |
| 19 | For instance , the beginning could be ‘ It was a nice sunny day and all the fishes decided to go out for a swim . |
| 20 | ‘ Dominic had left his AA card at home — we had a bit of a row about that — so we gave up on the car and decided to go out for a meal . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm going to have to go out for a while . ’ |
| 22 | I 'd love to go out for a meal . |
| 23 | ‘ She had to go out for a moment . ’ |
| 24 | The House of Lords allowed the defendant 's appeal with the result that the case had to go back for a retrial eleven years after the plaintiff had suffered damage . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | They 've gone out for a walk to have a cigar but as far we 're concerned they 're not having a cigar . |
| 27 | Well , we 've done that , as we said we would and of course , in a business such as Pearson , which is a people business er , although we regularly monitor employment statistics , such as total employ total number of employees er , revenue per employee , cost per employee , profit per employee , there are times when we have to take er , difficult decisions and er , so we 've gone in for a lot of redundancy , which we 'll see in , in er during the next slide or two . |
| 28 | I was surprised , for I had lost all count of time and had felt it had gone on for a week . |
| 29 | It was a small grave , and at its head was a low wooden cross inscribed with his name , date of birth , and date of death ; and as I passed , I had a vision of a little Aberdeen terrier who had gone off for a run by himself , and was now sporting in the fields of Paradise . |
| 30 | It was dusk , and the evening was as still and airless as the previous one when , impatient for news , Zen had gone out for a stroll . |