Example sentences of "go for a [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twice a week , having given their word of honour that they would not attempt to escape , those prisoners who wished to go for a heavily guarded march through the surrounding countryside , along lanes chosen for their loneliness , were allowed to do so . |
| 2 | Now we need to go for a more direct experience , feed in the kind of energy you get at raves , for example . |
| 3 | And indeed , to go for a more precise figure would suggest that I was making a particular point . |
| 4 | Another case in 1883 revealed that a marque of Veuve Clicquot-Ponsardine was being sold , but with the insertion of an extra ‘ o ’ in the label , reading ‘ Veuve Cliocquot-Ponsardin' and going for a ridiculously low price . |
| 5 | Now they are going for a more ambitious target — one company-wide registration to include safety , personnel and management services . |
| 6 | Anyhow , it had been going for a very short time , not very satisfactory , because none of us really were very successful with our machine , and then a … messenger came in to say that a [ radio ] taxi driver had come into No. 10 to say he 's heard everything going on in his taxi in Whitehall . |
| 7 | ‘ With ‘ All Over My Face ’ we went for a rather professional production , ’ sighs Andy . |
| 8 | It reads : ‘ Went for a very long bike ride and I was n't tired but Dad was knackered . ’ |
| 9 | You know when they said , when they went for a very radical policy |
| 10 | I went for a very short while to the Royal Academy of Arts for a leaving party being given for Mrs William Kerr , who firstly as Griselda Hamilton-Baillie then as Griselda Kerr , has worked so hard on the public relations staff of the Royal Academy , since 1972 . |
| 11 | A far better option is to treat the Wolf Riders in the same way as Goblin infantry Mobs — go for a fairly large unit , deploy in deep ranks , and include at least one worthy character . |
| 12 | At this point it is likely that we may make a second mistake and go for a purely positivist view of law , the view that the nature of law can be appreciated purely by reciting the elements of positing and applying law without reference to its objectives or functions , so that we have a legal system as long as there are institutionalised ways of selecting mandatory rules and some arrangement for an authoritative application of those rules to particular situations . |
| 13 | He later adds : ‘ If you are trying to set him up … you should go for a fairly substantial sum . ’ |
| 14 | On the other hand , the probability that we would go for a genuinely original idea may be very high indeed . |