Example sentences of "[pers pn] go [adv prt] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 're going to take him to Italy when I go over for the collections . |
| 2 | ‘ It was made in his atelier so I went over for the fittings and in those years I was very sure of myself . |
| 3 | I went out for the day , and came back to find the room full of thick smoke from Holmes ' pipe . |
| 4 | Amy and I went out for the day . |
| 5 | It went on and on until I was nearly frantic , so I went out for the evening several times in one week to release the tension . |
| 6 | But then I thought , ‘ I 'll show him , ’ and I went in for the Pub Entertainer of the Year contest . |
| 7 | when I went in for the steamer |
| 8 | One enterprising young man gathered 60 ration books into his brief-case and persuaded an RCAF pilot , due for a recognizance flight that day , to fly him several hundred miles across the provincial border to Atlin , B.C. At the friendly invitation of those concerned I went along for the ride and helped my energetic friends load five cases of Johnny Walker , which we transported back to Whitehorse well in time for a Saturday night party . |
| 9 | I went along for the ride ; Mrs Goreng needed moral support and a straight guy to conduct an emergency dialogue with , if the need arose . |
| 10 | In my own defence I can say only that I went along for the ride , as it were , if you 'll forgive the expression , Mr Milton . ’ |
| 11 | No , the , the , the extension of them going up for the cup and all , that 's what it was . |
| 12 | ‘ Are n't you going in for the Swimming Gala ? ’ |
| 13 | If you if you go out for the kitchen you know or whatever it is |
| 14 | One of the things that I used to do was train and I know the feeling , I know the excitement , I know the adrenalin that pumps round the body , when you go in for the kill . |
| 15 | I , I , mean we had erm , we went out for the day and they give us it was sandwiches |
| 16 | They cut off their hands so that they go about for the rest of their lives with bleeding stumps . ’ |
| 17 | It might be needed if they went out for the day . |
| 18 | He went up for the job , grinding his teeth , and got it . |
| 19 | I think we said to you on Friday erm both me and Roger actually said that he he went into er he went in for the kill and he c he came out with slaughter |
| 20 | He went back for the woman pedestrian he knocked down near a busy roundabout and helped her into his white Sierra car . |
| 21 | He went back for the President , lifting him from behind by both elbows and walking him into the shower with his boxer shorts and his sandals on . |
| 22 | But he went along for the ride , hoping he could put his spoke in and cancel the idea . |