Example sentences of "[modal v] go for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That she would n't say anything so , Dorothy had to actually say erm well I really do n't think you should go for that . |
| 2 | ‘ The day has come when India should go for new faces and not go on trying with the old ones , who have failed us miserably , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Because it 's all about enhancing the area of the war memorial , and I think that should go for next year 's enhancement . |
| 4 | And then he 'll go for one of those buggers , an' he 'll do for 'em . |
| 5 | Yes I 'll go for that . |
| 6 | Yeah so we 'll go for that I think |
| 7 | I 'll go for that |
| 8 | er , I 'll go for that one |
| 9 | Yeah , I 'll go for that |
| 10 | all da evening but then like last night see if I know that she 's been chomping on and off all night she 'll go for four or five hours . |
| 11 | They 'll go for small birds , insects and even worms — but then , it 's said that there 's as much protein in a decent-sized earthworm as in quarter of a pound of beef , so it must be nourishing , if not very appetising by most people 's standards ! |
| 12 | Okay we 'll go for five now . |
| 13 | I 'll go for 1–1 , failing that a 2–1 defeat . |
| 14 | ‘ We 'll go for ninety . ’ |
| 15 | We 'll go for those then . |
| 16 | Oh actually I I think I would go , I 'll go for this er mild korma chicken . |
| 17 | What , what I would always hope though , is that they might go for some help , because even if they decide to separate , and er get support while they 're doing so , they may be able to understand what was going on in the relationship , what they were looking for in each other . |
| 18 | We could go for eight days between fill-ups instead of having to brim the tank every four days , ’ he says . |
| 19 | ‘ The big turning point was against Norway , when I proved I could go for 90 minutes . |
| 20 | Erm the only thing that erm I thought she might er do was erm er something else on a ten year basis , because she 's only fifty six , I mean that 's relatively young , so would you possibly suggest anything that could go for ten or more years ? |
| 21 | ‘ My family could go for seven generations , ’ said Clumhach . |
| 22 | So they find your particular weakness , your Achilles heel and th they 'd go for that . |
| 23 | But I 'd go for that if I was you . |
| 24 | We 'd go for long walks and eat hot meals and watch the sunset . |
| 25 | Most popular waterlily cultivars need dividing every three or four years , although some of the smaller hybrids may go for six or seven years without requiring attention . |
| 26 | A family centre is a place where a child and his parents or those caring for him may go for occupational , social or recreational activities , or for advice , guidance or counselling . |
| 27 | What you 've got ta recognize , well you may go for both . |
| 28 | Let's go for fifty . |
| 29 | I , no I , I get the impression that , you know , everyone just everyone just kind of freaked out end of nineteen forty six forty seven and they were just , oh God what are we gon na do now , wh what can we do to get some more support , oh excellent , yeah , let's go for equal distribution , what a great idea and then all of a sudden they think oh no , it 's not , you know , perhaps it 's not such a good idea after all . |
| 30 | She said it was br it was , I did n't think it was but it wa it was really good fun and also I was going out with Carl at the time and so , you know , in our big like little group big little group , our big group , that was a bit of a erm contradiction , erm in our big group and erm we knew masses of people and there were lots of there and there were lots of Felixstowe people there and it was just a really good laugh and erm Right Said Fred were there and some other sort of ravey group , ca n't remember what now and then , no some techno group , and then erm so we all thought oh let's go for this , let's go , la this time last year we thought oh well let's go over to this one for a joke , you know , for old time 's sake let's just go along and have a joke and we went and it was full of erm like they were all about fourteen , I suppose when we went we were all fourteen too but last year well most of my friends are sort of you know sixteen erm we went and it was n't , it was n't , it was n't full at all and the place is huge and it says , it says on the thing , you know , two thousand people go and there must have been about four hundred at the most and it was really , and I , also I ha I was ill that day and it was really shit so if they said it was brilliant last year it probably was n't the stockings because it was , nobody I met said it was , and also yeah the stockings and the feathers were put on the same day and there 's competition between the two companies does stocking and I 've forgotten what feathers is , there 's competition and so lots of people went to the feathers instead and the feathers had like too many people and the stockings had too lit too few . |