Example sentences of "to go [adv prt] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hearings are likely to go on for months . |
| 2 | Today 's ‘ continuous ’ culture processes are designed to go on for months without completely emptying the fermenter . |
| 3 | And one man who seemed to go on for years was Cecil Dunford or " Slap " as he was known , an active man in all his pursuits in the village . |
| 4 | And then , at half past eight , we used to have to get everything ready for breakfast and have it all ready ; and then we had to go in for prayers . |
| 5 | For the exasperated livestock farmer , with fears for the future of his pig unit or broiler house , for the fruit-grower alarmed by the possibility of a poisonous spray inadvertently finding its way into the metabolism of a casual passerby , and for the cereals farmer who does not take kindly to his best malting barley being trampled down in order to create an impromptu picnic site , the simplest solution is to go in for siege tactics . |
| 6 | On annual leave the rest right this wants to go in for quarter of an hour does n't it ? |
| 7 | The f the thing is if he needs to go in for treatment , he 's only going to get worse if he does n't get it . |
| 8 | Refusing the invitation to go in for coffee , Fran hurried back to the car and drove across town , only slowing when she turned in through the gates of the college and made her way along the rutted gravel path to pull up in front of the old sandstone building next to Luke 's car . |
| 9 | You ought to go in for beauty comps , he said when he was winding up his film . |
| 10 | What I mean by that is , when you get back to your branches , you will go onto further training programmes in branch training , developing your practice training , so each branch will vary how they sort of co-ordinate this , but let's say , we 've been in a few months now , and twice a week we 've got to go in for training . |
| 11 | Of every hundred pounds that 's invested , round about forty pounds goes straight to the government in betting duty , round about thirty pounds goes to the football pools in expenses , commissions and profits , leaving round about thirty pounds to be returned in prizes , and so you can see that your rate of return on football pools is extremely small , but on the other hand a very large number of people do enter the football pools , and when they win they can win considerable sums of money and it can make absolute rational economic sense to go in for football pools because you are giving yourself a chance , no matter how small , of winning a sum of money that you would n't expect to come across in any other way of your life . |
| 12 | But the Greeks , though they enjoy buying the products of other people 's factories , are stubbornly reluctant to go in for factories themselves . |
| 13 | My , my watch is the one Irene bought me gone wrong , it 's had to go in for repairs . |
| 14 | Smith was the latest to go off for examination of foot bruising , Nick Knight substituting briefly in the field . |
| 15 | By the time I got into position , my lungs were bursting and I had to go up for air again . |
| 16 | Me and an aunt , just outside Norwich we used to go up for Sunday dinner it was very nice along the river there , and a , I thought the very nice part of cathedral , there 's a cathedral lies very low it had some very nice erm , mm , what you call it , close , is it ? |
| 17 | Tenders were to go out for provisions , and every person in the infirmary was to find his own tea ( except for the house surgeon , the matron and Dr. Yeats ' pupil ) . |
| 18 | Well I was going to go out for Jim 's |
| 19 | I want to go out for lunch . ’ |
| 20 | And we 're going to go out for lunch . |
| 21 | This at least gives him the freedom to go out for air and to do errands such as visiting local shops or going to the hairdresser . |
| 22 | But I ca n't stop to go out for coffee . |
| 23 | This alerted Eva , and she arranged for them all to go out for supper . |
| 24 | I decide to go out for cigarettes ; a short walk will do me good . |
| 25 | ‘ Oh , by the way , I told Nelson tonight would be an excellent night for you two to go out for dinner together . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ When we stopped at traffic lights , Warren took hold of my hand and said that he was becoming more attached to me and asked me if I would like to go out for dinner the next day . ’ |
| 27 | He planned to go out for dinner |
| 28 | he planned to go out for dinner , he 's even forgot about that as well . |
| 29 | The new puppy is very timid with strangers but now she is old enough to go out for walks , we have found she is growling at other dogs . |
| 30 | It 's becoming sort of fairly topical erm where there , and it is , more perhaps related to the fear of crime than the actual crime itself , where , people are afraid to go out for fear that they 're going to be personally attacked , whether it be you know , answering the door at night in their own homes , or actually , you know , going to their cars . |