Example sentences of "to go in for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | On annual leave the rest right this wants to go in for quarter of an hour does n't it ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | You ought to go in for beauty comps , he said when he was winding up his film . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |