Example sentences of "go in for [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ The players have to be prepared to put themselves into dangerous positions , to go in for a hard tackle , be brave and take the blows .
2 Everyone goes in for a little enhancement , one way or another .
3 I er I think erm it 's silly not to have it er when you 're going in for a new set .
4 I am bound to say My Lords that my own view is still that the size within the limits laid down by statute with a minimum of sixteen or eighteen and maximum of twenty-four would best be determined locally and if we 're not going in for a national police force , I still ca n't see what it has to do with the Secretary of State and why the Home Office should be settling the size of forty-three or so police authorities .
5 er and therefore for that very reason do not like to see the Government going in for a whole series of embarrassing defeats er and erm getting into very grave difficulties with an important Bill and I therefore arise only to ask my Noble Friend er at the last minute would like to consider very seriously erm a conciliatory reply of whether accepting er the amendments with er or er or some of them er with er er er view to their reconsideration or asking those who propose them to defer them from to from today 's sitting , there 's still further sittings ahead , but whether he was prepared to ask them to give him a chance to reflect without incurring serious Government defeats to reflect further on whether further amendments can not and should not be made .
6 if I won bigger money , I should go in for a new house , which would be built to our own idea , so that we could get a bigger scullery … .
7 So then I decided I would like to be that I knew there was a job going on the electricians , so I thought well I 'll I 'll go in for the electrical side .
8 But perhaps I give that impression because I have strong views on certain subjects and because I do n't go in for the social whirl , for fast cars and fast women . ’
9 There will be video feedback too , and those who feel up to it can go in for the local skischool giant slalom race .
10 ‘ I go in for a certain amount of golf , you know .
11 This is the moment when we decide whether we go in for a federal Europe or whether we go in for a Europe of member states trading together , competing together , co-operating together .
12 Apart from saying he had given up singing and trumpet-playing , he invented things , such as that his school had suggested he go in for the Young Musician of the Year contest .
13 They go in for the emotional point of view , and I thought it would help them see me in a fatherly light , giving him my own name .
14 His father , however , preferred that Farrar went in for a professional career , and Farrar was articled to a firm of architects and surveyors in Northampton , becoming a Fellow of the Geographical Society .
15 Went in for a hot chocolate and that was it we did n't
16 Like Marx , William 's grandad went in for the broad dialectic of history and was n't too fussy about the fine print .
17 If you look at the people who went in for the Olympic Games , right up to the Second World War , erm you would call them amateurs .
18 None of the European resorts has yet gone in for the wholesale investment in snow-making which we see in the United States , mainly because the capital outlay is enormous and the running costs extremely high .
19 I kept just killing time until it had gone eleven o'clock and all the cinema-goers had gone in for the late shows , at which point I decided to call it a day .
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