Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] go for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richard Scott went for nought , caught out and caught behind , thanks to the pace of Bishop . |
| 2 | Oh look , it 's Richard Branson going for another record in his big balloon — go on , bomb the bearded bigwig ! |
| 3 | Richard Allen went for a bike tide round his home village of Lyonshall in Herefordshire today ; a form of exercise up until now he could only dream about . |
| 4 | Van Gogh went for sunflowers … and Turner liked a nice boat … but these are the favoured subject of Huang Youngping . |
| 5 | He took to the front on the second lap and left Dave Milling , Woolsey Coulter , Phillip McCallen and Alan Irwin to go for second best . |
| 6 | A nicely placed observer speculates that if Univel Inc , the Novell Inc/Unix System Labs joint venture , does well with the Destiny desktop operating system , that that will convince Novell chief Ray Noorda to go for a bigger piece of USL : he already owns the largest outside share . |
| 7 | LIVERPOOL soccer manager Graeme Souness went for a drive with his girlfriend yesterday as he continued his recovery from a triple heart by-pass operation . |
| 8 | Even Samuel Pepys went for an audience : ‘ 23 February , 1668–9 . |
| 9 | But would — indeed could — Mr Gorbachev go for it ? |
| 10 | Would Uncle Wullie go for the ride ? |
| 11 | I thought Uncle Keith went for it once ? |
| 12 | Every night before going to bed , Sir Charles went for a walk in the gardens of Baskerville Hall . |
| 13 | Relying ( perhaps mistakenly ) on his much-vaunted , er , sexual charisma , Warren Beatty goes for ‘ Make a pass at me ’ , while , demonstrating his well-documented charm Big Arnie 's suggestion is ‘ Your bangability is very high tonight , baby ’ . |
| 14 | Where did Mr C go for his rap lessons ? |
| 15 | That afternoon Van Cheele went for a walk through his woods . |
| 16 | On Christmas night Ruth went for her nightly bath and came out in her nightdress . |
| 17 | ‘ Seeing that Mother Hampton was dead-drunk under the table at the Jolly Waterman when Rose Bailey went for her , a fine job she would have made of it . ’ |
| 18 | An oil , ‘ Beach scene ’ , by Gladys Macabe went for £250 while a watercolour , ‘ village scene ’ , by Olive Henry made £100 . |
| 19 | Last night Mowbray went for his usual walk on the parapet between the Salt and Broad Arrow Towers . |
| 20 | She had told him a lie about Auntie Lou going for a walk up the mountain and Auntie Lou did n't know what she 'd said . |
| 21 | A detached two- bedroomed town house in the capital Wellington went for £18,500 . |
| 22 | Bag man Derek goes for ton … |
| 23 | Bag man Derek goes for ton … |
| 24 | An old suit belonging to the late Freddie Mercury went for £2,640 . |
| 25 | Anxious about his prospects of liberation , the slave Moschos went for a night of incubation to the temple and had a dream in which the divine pair Amphiaraus and Hygieia ordered him to write down what he had seen and to set it up in stone by the altar . |
| 26 | In that year 's elections McCarthy went for Senator Tydings of Maryland , who had pronounced him a fraud , with typical unscrupulousness . |
| 27 | She could n't care less what type of woman Guy Sterne went for . |
| 28 | Comedians Griff Rhys Jones and Mel Smith went for huge belly laughs as they poked fun at ‘ a small group of people for whom this has been a terrible year — the British tabloid journalists ’ . |
| 29 | Watson 's replacement Chris Pringle went for 50 in his first 11 overs , and England were away , never to be caught . |
| 30 | Who invited Doctor Jekyll to go for a walk ? |