Example sentences of "[pron] go [adv] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone goes in for a little enhancement , one way or another . |
| 2 | It 's easier for you to experiment to see how it works than for me to go in for a detailed but boring explanation . |
| 3 | Once a month I go out for a serious session — the last of which was a hard circuit of Radnor Forest , but I enjoyed it tremendously . ’ |
| 4 | For all this however , he has an iron nerve and told me , ‘ I have never been scared but when I go out for the National I get a tingling sensation . |
| 5 | ‘ I go in for a certain amount of golf , you know . |
| 6 | anyway the girl said well I 'll ring first to see where you get your application form she , and the , Sue phoned and was on the other end and I said oh you should apparently you 've got have erm , er , application form and Mrs going to send you one , I said is that Mrs on the line she said is that Mrs speaking , she said yeah , I said will you tell it 's Mrs she said oh , well , tell Mrs she 's no need to apply I 've got all her details and she is being looked at , you know , we are looking into it anyway erm , as I say I had this letter just after Christmas to say that there was a job coming up at the Mencap at Wellingborough Road , Rushden , and I was being selected and erm would I go up for the informal interview on the Monday and the formal interview at the hospital the next morning , so I went up got the first person there and er she , she , it 's a new , it 's an old house but they 've done it all up and there all papers on the floor and then she said oh I think I 'll pick these up Ir Irene , I said oh call me Joy everybody does and she said alright , OK , I said oh I 'll help you so of course I said , I went straight down with her on the floor picking all these papers up and she , and when the next person come she said poor old Joy ai n't even got in the door and that 's it , she 's already working and she said I can see you 're like me Joy you 'll do a job when you see it 's got ta be done , I said I 've always been the same , I ca n't , I ca n't see a spoon or a bit of paper laying on the floor |
| 7 | I went up for a closer look . |
| 8 | I went yesterday for the first time . |
| 9 | During the war I worked for the women 's voluntary service and shortly afterwards I went abroad for a few years , returning in the late 1940s , divorced with three children . |
| 10 | And I went there for a little bit , and then we moved on , moved off from there , do you see ? |
| 11 | It 's the relationship between the client and the advertiser which goes on for the next two years . |
| 12 | One , an innings of 499 : the other , a knock which went on for the little matter of 970 minutes . |
| 13 | If you look at the people who went in for the Olympic Games , right up to the Second World War , erm you would call them amateurs . |
| 14 | She went home for the first time after twelve weeks … but she 's been in and out of the unit constantly ever since . |
| 15 | This is the moment when we decide whether we go in for a federal Europe or whether we go in for a Europe of member states trading together , competing together , co-operating together . |
| 16 | Did we go I er I 'm now I 'm pretty sure we went home for a seven and a half hour day in twenty one , pretty sure that 's what one of the things that we did . |
| 17 | We went in for a closer look . |
| 18 | Then we went back for the long-service merit awards . |
| 19 | If I did manage to get the rubber disc in now , but then he arrived an hour or two late , and then we went out for a romantic candle-lit dinner , and then we chatted for a while … the spermicide would have decided to cease hostilities at just about the time I needed it to be at its most fierce . |
| 20 | I felt him go off for a few seconds . |
| 21 | Of course not , they 've been elected for a period , they serve to the end of that period , whether they 're made redundant or not , so they go on for the four year term . |
| 22 | They go in for the emotional point of view , and I thought it would help them see me in a fatherly light , giving him my own name . |
| 23 | It goes straight for a few yards and then bends round the corner into blackness . |
| 24 | If I cough or something it goes quite for a little while then comes back again . |
| 25 | It goes back for a hundred years or more . |
| 26 | I knew she was unhappy about his going away for a whole weekend when she was too sick to accompany him . |
| 27 | Apart from saying he had given up singing and trumpet-playing , he invented things , such as that his school had suggested he go in for the Young Musician of the Year contest . |
| 28 | In the final between Bridgend and Gloucester , after a flash of brilliance from Glen Webbe towards the end when he went over for a magnificent try and another brilliant individual effort by him when he sent over Mark Jones , Bridgend clinched a 22–12 victory . |
| 29 | He went on for a long time — we had such energy , then , in our quarrels — and sank deeper and deeper into what was really absurdity , saying that it was all his fault , he had been a lousy husband , too absorbed in his job to notice I was bored and fretting because I was ‘ wasting my education ’ , and that if only I had been ‘ straight ’ with him , we could have done something to put this right . |
| 30 | More than 20 years since he started flying , he went solo for the first time . |