Example sentences of "go [adv] for a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been accepted for the job at Ardis & Co , looking the way she normally looked , but if to keep her job — and she had no idea at that stage whether there was a Vasey junior , or similar , at G Vasey Ltd — she had to go in for a bit of de glamorisation , then so be it . |
| 2 | He goes in for a sort of hall-of-mirrors self-impersonation , telling people how he would have done the murder if he had done it ( which he has ) . |
| 3 | This was going on for a couple of days , so I was getting worried and I took him to the prison doctor and he says , ‘ It might be with you breastfeeding , try him on the bottle . ’ |
| 4 | My hon. Friend the Member for Norfolk , North ( Mr. Howell ) spoke recently on the radio about his idea of paying , say , £100 a week to people joining a community task force , enabling them to obtain work experience and contribute to society , which does not simply mean filling in holes in the road but involves going in for a range of useful activities , from working on environmental improvements to caring for the vulnerable in society . |
| 5 | Jonadab and his two sons were just scraping their boots at the back door , prior to going in for a mug of tea . |
| 6 | Now , that obviously means , colleagues that we 're , we 're going over for a period of time , but we 're er slightly behind this afternoon , so certainly need to be trying to pull some work back . |
| 7 | Between Czecho and Hungary , he decided he was going off for a couple of days . |
| 8 | ‘ I thought we were just going out for a couple of hours ! ’ she protested hotly . |
| 9 | During the previous weeks there had been fine weather , and after a day in the office Paul would keep his mother company in the evenings for a little while , then , as they had nothing to say to one another , he would tell her he was going out for a breath of air . |
| 10 | They may be absolutely fine , and if you 're going there for a number of years , you 've probably got no er problem with them , but of course the smaller the organization the simpler is , it is for other erm factors to creep in . |
| 11 | We used to have a lunch break at around about half past ten I think ti was , we used to go out for a quarter of an hour into the school yard to play and have your lunch . |
| 12 | it 's no good I 'm gon na have to go out for a breath of fresh air . |
| 13 | It is well known that local reversals of movement occur and may possibly go on for a number of years . |
| 14 | And in some class rooms the kids are gon na go down for a variety of reasons , they 're gon na they 're gon na work their ticket and in other class rooms they wo n't ! |
| 15 | So he asked me if I 'd go in for a couple of weeks until he got something sorted out you know . |
| 16 | You know he does n't go in for a lot of heavy discussion about things . ’ |
| 17 | And when she went down for a cup of tea , her mother mentioned casually that Parr had gone to Belfast , not to England as expected , although she did not know why . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | We just go down for a bit of practice a few nights before . ’ |
| 20 | The cloth for their suits was cord ( corduroy ) , as I 've told you ; but sometimes they went in for a suit of heavy tweed — staple tweed it was called ; and at that time they made it as hard as a board . |
| 21 | Schools went in for a lot of physical education , ‘ drill ’ , which involved jumping about in a drafty hall with your skirt tucked into your knickers if you were female . |
| 22 | Fibres also went in for a spot of acquisition , buying into the British texturizing industry to give downstream processing capability . |
| 23 | I mean , I ended up staying a month at some bloke 's house after I went in for a pack of strings ! |
| 24 | And as often as you tell yourself she 's not your type , that you do n't like blondes , your taste tends towards the browns , even redheads but not blondes , no ; and what 's more , her face is round , but you do n't like round faces ; and you 've always gone in for a bit of shape and she 's flat as a pancake . |
| 25 | As you may already realise , once again the Almeida has gone in for a lot of posh posturing got up as a drama of social consciousness . |
| 26 | Well , we 've done that , as we said we would and of course , in a business such as Pearson , which is a people business er , although we regularly monitor employment statistics , such as total employ total number of employees er , revenue per employee , cost per employee , profit per employee , there are times when we have to take er , difficult decisions and er , so we 've gone in for a lot of redundancy , which we 'll see in , in er during the next slide or two . |
| 27 | He says , and then you 'll go downstairs for a cup of tea and then you 'll he says , get back into bed ! |
| 28 | She began plunging the pole down into the pot once more but , feeling suddenly rebellious , she stopped work and went outside for a breath of fresh air . |
| 29 | we 've both got a week off , and we thought we 'd all can go just for a couple of days |
| 30 | If I had gone away for a couple of days , I returned expecting almost to have to push the door open but to my amazement , the place was immaculate . |