Example sentences of "[adv] go [adv prt] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos we only go in for one drink to cel , celebrate Penny 's birthday with her . |
| 2 | Is a search still going on for missing material ? |
| 3 | And it 's still going on for another season . |
| 4 | The Civilization Society more deliberately went out for bipartisan support and one result was that the six Conservative MPs who belonged to only one antislavery body chose to give their support to it . |
| 5 | The arts community has always gone in for manic attention-seeking , of course — the oxygen of publicity ( to borrow a phrase ) being crucial to its survival . |
| 6 | He also goes in for creative self-plundering by way of rhetorical and dialectical self-parody . |
| 7 | Incidentally , it does n't include the disposal of Smithmark We 've also er we 've also gone in for other cost reduction exercises , for instance at er Dalton with a review of warehousing and distribution er , we should save about a million pounds in a full year and we 've been ramming home to our chief executives the need for annual payroll reviews to be geared to the profitability of the company rather than t rather than to the rate of inflation er , or even , er in , even the market place . |
| 8 | Buck rabbits on their own seldom or never go in for serious digging . |
| 9 | They never went in for small talk ( ‘ Had a nice day at the office , darling ? ’ complete with obligatory peck . |