Example sentences of "go [adv prt] for the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The National Lottery will be the enemy of proper planning in all areas ; it will encourage short-term thinking , and it will be the perfect excuse for the Treasury to go in for the kind of sleight-of-hand just described . |
| 2 | Maurice was deserted , Maurice having been invited , as he quite often was , to go down for the day to Brighton . |
| 3 | A couple of weeks later , just as most of the officers and men of the Allied Screening Commission in Verona were preparing to go off for the weekend to the country , an enormous , chauffeur-driven Fiat motor car with a flag on the front of it rolled up in the drive . |
| 4 | In November 1974 , it was he who talked me into going along for the audition for ‘ New faces ’ at the Blue Angel nightclub in Leeds . |
| 5 | When Frank heard that Michael thought of going in for the prize on this set book he was indignant and sent a message to Michael , ‘ Who in his senses would read a book by a bishop ? ’ |
| 6 | And , by the way , the reason I have to go is because Joanna is going out for the day with Ian Woodall . ’ |
| 7 | Most people are ready to go out for the evening at that time , ’ laughs Ted . |
| 8 | This tragic game can go on for the rest of their lives or one of them can decide enough is enough and withdraw . |
| 9 | Then anti-climax , as they watched its tail-lights in the pitchy dark , lights that seemed to throb and waver in their seared sight before they blazed redly when the brakes went on for the corner by the sailing club slipway . |
| 10 | The Iliad went in for the triumvirate in the Ladbroke of 1991 at Leopardstown and then the biggest success of all came at Cheltenham where Destriero was supposed to have landed a gamble of over £1m in taking the Supreme Novices Hurdle . |
| 11 | ‘ Then , if we 're forward enough , Jinny and Oz can go off for the day with a couple of baskets . |
| 12 | how much was n't held until after I 'd gone up for the money for Matthew 's back . |
| 13 | They cut off their hands so that they go about for the rest of their lives with bleeding stumps . ’ |