Example sentences of "go [adv] for [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | This planning diary should show , for example , weeks in which certain lecture courses begin or in which certain work assignments are due for presentation ; weeks in which there are social or sporting events ; weeks in which you are free to take a break or to go away for a few days . |
2 | It could be that the couple simply decided to go away for a few days , but those who know Mrs Allsopp say it 's unlikely she would have left without telling anyone . |
3 | I 've only met kennel cough once and that was last year , when a dog belonging to a friend caught it after having been boarded out when she had to go away for a few weeks . |
4 | She said it had been going on for a few months . ’ |
5 | It is part of a rather complicated arrangement that has been going on for a few years now . ’ |
6 | 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 . |
7 | I would n't mind going away for a few days , but |
8 | The artistic reason is that he is old-hat ; Catalans prefer to be known for the airy constructions that are going up for the Olympic Games . |
9 | ‘ I 'm going out for a few minutes . ’ |
10 | Things were n't going well for the American studios , either at home or in the UK , and they became increasingly desperate , hunting around for the winning formula some had lost and others never found . |
11 | Nottinghamshire SSD had tried to avoid applying for powers under a care order to remove three children from their home by going instead for a prohibited steps order to exclude their abusing father . |
12 | It goes straight for a few yards and then bends round the corner into blackness . |
13 | Now I was talking to your Doctor who was wondering whether we might want to go out for a few beers at some point |
14 | It goes back for a hundred years or more . |
15 | The talking went on for a few moments then the sudden , all too familiar , sound of a mortar bomb leaving the barrel . |
16 | We 'll go right for the awkward ones and put an X and a Y in as well . |
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 | 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 . |
19 | The opening ‘ The Basement ’ is most disturbing , Blood explaining what can happen when your parents go away for a few months and leave you with your crippled sister : ‘ It started out with spankings with the neighbour looking on/She paid her daughter 's boyfriend who would whip me all night long … ’ |
20 | The opening ‘ The Basement ’ is most disturbing , Blood explaining what can happen when your parents go away for a few months and leave you with your crippled sister : ‘ It started out with spankings with the neighbour looking on/She paid her daughter 's boyfriend who would whip me all night long … ’ |
21 | They 've gone away for a few days . |
22 | ‘ Oh — it 's my son — he 's got cystic fibrosis , and my wife 's gone away for a few days with a friend for a break . |
23 | Fifteen miles north , they put into St Abbs haven , under the mighty headland of that name , just before dawn , and went ashore for a few hours ' rest in a hay barn . |
24 | However , he left the next day , calling later to ask Lorna to meet him nearby with £500 cash so he could go away for a few days . |
25 | After a time the goat disappeared , and its place was taken by some hens , and these hens I looked after when , as quite often happened , their mistress went away for a few days . |
26 | Finishing the script , I would leave it for the typist and go home for a few hours ' nap until rehearsal time at two o'clock . |
27 | Go home for a few hours . |
28 | And , although I did go home for a few holidays , most I seem to remember were spent elsewhere with friends or at special holiday camps that some of the other boarders went to . ’ |
29 | I felt him go off for a few seconds . |
30 | He went out for a few moments and stood on the steps between the Greek pillars , looking in the direction of the Residency for any sign of movement . |