Example sentences of "[conj] go [adv] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This planning diary should show , for example , weeks in which certain lecture courses begin or in which certain work assignments are due for presentation ; weeks in which there are social or sporting events ; weeks in which you are free to take a break or to go away for a few days . |
| 2 | Well really when I had the same thing , you know , and goes back for a little bit this morning and er same sort of thing . |
| 3 | I always hang up promptly and go out for a nice cup of coffee to cheer myself up . |
| 4 | Finishing the script , I would leave it for the typist and go home for a few hours ' nap until rehearsal time at two o'clock . |
| 5 | On every channel earnest-looking men with maps and pointers , looking like war-gamers in some fiendish Pentagon basement , demonstrate — predict , even — the inch-by-inch path that the storm is taking , noting that it usually passes off to the north , but may perhaps curve back upon itself and go in for a second strike . |
| 6 | Fifteen miles north , they put into St Abbs haven , under the mighty headland of that name , just before dawn , and went ashore for a few hours ' rest in a hay barn . |
| 7 | Anna read the letter with incomprehension , then put Charlotte into her secondhand pram — donated by the Young Wives ' Group — and went out for a long and significant walk . |
| 8 | She could not keep from the house on the bay but went late for a brief evening swim and , elated with resolution , left soon after dinner . |