Example sentences of "[vb past] to go for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why was it everyone seemed to go for the easy way out ? |
| 2 | And as I started to go for the third man , I heard the sound of police whistles , and then two policemen arrived with the woman , and the third thug ran for it . |
| 3 | A few days before the European Planning Committee was due to meet , Mueller decided to go for the jugular . |
| 4 | He decided to go for the label of being a careful writer . |
| 5 | Dannii was the famous sister but Hardy yet again decided to go for the older girl . |
| 6 | The set had reached deuce when Mrs Beattie decided to go for the advantage point . |
| 7 | As it also happens to be the only drinker on the Cherwell until you get to Islip , the murderous conspiracies and dark plots which so excite the Kidlington Kops amount to nothing more than the fact that when I opened my curtains that morning I saw the sun shining in a cloudless blue sky and decided to go for the longest and most pleasant of the river walks open to me . |
| 8 | I decided to go for the pills first , but after three months I was still in agony so I went for the laser operation . |
| 9 | Preston drained his glass and decided to go for the bottle in the next interlude . |
| 10 | I decided to go for the barn and struck lucky twice in a row . |
| 11 | I just did n't quite judge it right , so I decided to go for the hole rather than ipe the team out ! |
| 12 | He joined the RAF fresh from A-levels and says he decided to go for the degree so he would have another string to his bow . |
| 13 | R : in those days + when we were young + there was no local fire engine here + it was just a two-wheeled trolley which was kept in the borough + in the borough eh store down on James Street + and whenever a fire broke out + it was just a question of whoever saw the fire first yelling â Fire â + and the nearest people ran for the trolley and how they got on with it goodness knows + nobody was trained in its use + anyway everybody knew to go for the trolley + well + when we were children + we used to use this taw [ tâ : ] + it smouldered furiously + black thick smoke came from it and we used to get it burning + and then go to a letter box and just keep blowing + open the letter box + and just keep blowing the smoke in + you see + till you 'd fill up the lower part of the house with nothing but smoke + there was no fire + but just fill it up with smoke + just to put the breeze up + just as a joke + and then of course + when somebody would open a window or a door the smoke would come pouring out + and then + everybody was away then for the trolley + we just stood and watched all of them + + |
| 14 | Though physically a lightly built rugby player , he never hesitated to go for the top league and would be bounced and shaken regularly . |
| 15 | Nothing else was right , you had to go for the best in life , and I suppose we 've always felt that . â |