Example sentences of "to go for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Set 329 to win in a minimum of 73 overs , Zimbabwe made no effort to go for the total . |
| 2 | 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 ‘ Fire ’ + 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 [ t– : ] + 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 + + |
| 3 | One of Mr Gould 's followers , health spokesman David Blunkett , urges Labour not to go for the unity of the graveyard . |
| 4 | According to Electronic News , Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG is in final discussions with Apple Computer Inc and the AT&T Co-Eo Inc-Matsushita Electric Industrial Co before deciding whether to go for the architecture of the Advanced RISC Machines Ltd ARM-based Newton , or the AT&T Co Hobbit-based device . |
| 5 | Amazingly , he only got the chance to go for the try because Cardiff players over-ruled skipper Mike Hall . |
| 6 | And yes , a district general manager should 've resigned because he had an interest in the decision to go for the Trust status . |
| 7 | The set had reached deuce when Mrs Beattie decided to go for the advantage point . |
| 8 | British producers have little choice but to go for the home market , because the lion share of their budgets comes from the B B C , I T V or Channel Four who commission the programmes in the first place . |
| 9 | and he he put them in the in the bank and when he finished , when he was he used to go for the money for for for some money |
| 10 | One of the few collectors dedicated enough to go for the company context is Peter Card , whose collection of 400 old bicycle lamps is without equal . |
| 11 | This seemed to shake Churt out of their stride and inspire Haslemere to go for the winner . |
| 12 | He emphasized the need to hold height ; to keep searching around , above , below , behind ; to get in close ; to fire short burst ; to go for the pilot , not the plane . |
| 13 | round the ten every happens to everyone they work you know ten twelve is the obvious one to go for the go eight nine ten twelve fourteen and then once you do it you do n't realize you 've done it and you do n't stop . |
| 14 | The water guarding it does not look nearly so dangerous as the water behind it as a player comes down the hill debating whether to go for the green with his second shot . |
| 15 | I did n't know whether to go for the oatmeal for second choice or whether to stick to the saxe , but I definitely did not want jet or donkey , that I did know . |
| 16 | Hence representing revenues from community X by R(X) we can say : The consequence is that the group of three communities would not be willing to go for the scheme involving supply to all three , since they would not be able to come up with an agreed method of sharing the £650 . |
| 17 | The spa at Evian has been famous since the 18th century as the place to go for the treatment of kidney stones and urinary infections . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's time to go for the jackpot . ’ |
| 19 | I decided to go for the barn and struck lucky twice in a row . |
| 20 | Once that 's secured and defended at least once , Weir wants to go for the flyweight title , held until recently by Pat Clinton . |
| 21 | Still it may be unfashionable to go for the majority anyway . |
| 22 | Preston drained his glass and decided to go for the bottle in the next interlude . |
| 23 | For days the team had sat out harrowing gales and -50C temperatures , waiting to go for the top . |
| 24 | Following a tremendous start to this term , the one-time journeyman has pronounced his determination to go for the title . |
| 25 | Gambling on the dying man being able to comprehend , he had ordered him to go for the destruct button , while he himself had kept Grant occupied by an exchange of fire . |
| 26 | I just did n't quite judge it right , so I decided to go for the hole rather than ipe the team out ! |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | They came the Friday night to go for the midnight mail you know the one that comes to meet the boat . |
| 29 | The team batting first can never be quite sure when to go for the final , all out slog . |
| 30 | Were we on coke when we said , in the summer , that we were going to go for the sonnet ? ’ |