Example sentences of "[noun] go for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Bowlers allus goes for the man as is buildin' a ninnins. 'E 's the one they fear . |
| 2 | On his own decision to go for the draw with a last-minute John Liley penalty , Richards said pointedly : ‘ Trying to win the game by opting for the scrum would have been a waste of time because the moment we drove for the line , they would have wheeled it or collapsed it . |
| 3 | And yes , a district general manager should 've resigned because he had an interest in the decision to go for the Trust status . |
| 4 | When the first contestant to go for the top prize , Marine Captain Richard MacCutchin who , oddly , specialized in haute cuisine , pulled it off by describing the ingredients of a royal banquet given by George VI to the president of France , three-quarters of American television sets were tuned in to watch him wrestle for the answers . |
| 5 | Another Coral goes for the Gold Cup … then there 's Wonder Man … |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm right at the peak of my career now , and it 's my ambition to go for the ‘ grand slam ’ , ’ said Gunnell , after winning the 400m , her first race in Britain for five months . |
| 7 | These are where the ordinary citizen goes for the help of a lawyer . |
| 8 | B — can scarcely rise , the referee is in a fit of temper , attacks P — with stool , P — chases him round ring — gong goes for the 4th round — P — still has stool so B — picks up the water bowl and with a terrific bang lands it on P's head . |
| 9 | If in doubt , keep two provisional subjects going for the first half of the first term — and then drop the one that appeals to you the less . |
| 10 | The Secretaryship , possibly joint with Club Stewardship , was in the control of Mr. and Mrs. H.J. Young from 1914 to 1921 at which Annual General Meeting they were presented with some silver ‘ for keeping the club going for the last six years ’ . |
| 11 | Arms salesman ; okay the Avenger the Equaliser the Total Fucking Nutter went for the legs too but still , and the editor spiked , and the rapist-lenient judge raped and the pornographer poisoned and stroked and the man who was so callous about the bloodshed in the Iran/Iraq war forced to watch his penned animals die like cattle like soldiers like cattle and then bled to death in his own private fountains of blood and the businessman who put profits before safety and not only helped kill a thousand people but then tried to get out of paying the survivors and dependants any compensation gets his own gas explosion — blevey is the technical term apparently — and fuck me whoever he is ( assuming he is a he ) , he 's got a sense of humour or at least irony why he 's produced what 's almost a snuff video effectively a snuff video if you mean brain-death anyway it 's the closest anyone will admit to ever having seen or found one even the Obscene Pubs Squad who 've been looking for years but although everybody assumes they exist nobody 's ever seen one until old gorilla man comes along and just makes his own , specifically to warn off any other porn merchants thinking of dealing in snuff ! |
| 12 | Dionne went for the outlaw type , or so she said , then mothered and civilised them until they were unrecognisable , and when her dream of civilised and raunchy equality went out the slammed door , there she was alone again , smoking a little more than usual , drinking a little more than necessary and swearing herself to celibacy until the next sulky brow slouched into view and stole her hopeful heart away . |
| 13 | We got a birdie at the 11th by using the 1-iron when Johnny went for the 3-wood , got on , but not near enough to make the birdie putt . |
| 14 | Adam Sweeting on why Prince 's dancing sensation is aiming for stardom-without him Cat goes for the cream . |
| 15 | Following a tremendous start to this term , the one-time journeyman has pronounced his determination to go for the title . |
| 16 | ROTOR WING FLIGHT TEST Going for the big stuff |
| 17 | The pattern of attacks has not really changed at all ; the Iraqis go for the Iranian oil tankers on the shuttle from Kharg Island to Larak Island , and the Iranians then retaliate with a burst of rocket-propelled grenades and machine gun fire against almost any vessel unaccompanied by a warship . |
| 18 | Some thought it was an attempt to make the long hitters go for the green across the water so they made it twenty-five paces shorter . |
| 19 | Near the summit on a steep , south-facing crag Going for the Jugular , which climbs the left-hand crack up the steep buttress on the left . |
| 20 | ‘ Criticising my age is like a footballer going for the man rather than the ball . |
| 21 | The spa at Evian has been famous since the 18th century as the place to go for the treatment of kidney stones and urinary infections . |
| 22 | CLIVE Brittain warned User Friendly supporters not to put heart before head when his star filly goes for the world 's richest race , the Japan Cup in Tokyo , early tomorrow morning . |
| 23 | If the racket came right I felt it gave him the confidence to go for the shots . |
| 24 | Left : With psychological jammed knots in place , the author goes for the first ring on Renaissance ( E2/3 5c ) , Cross Hill , Adrspatch ( photo Graeme Ettle ) . |
| 25 | USL expects Sparc compatible builders like ICL plc to pick up the former , with the Japanese and maybe firms in the Mips ABI group going for the other . |
| 26 | and then pensions are the same again except the guy 's a carpenter , a self-employed carpenter , and then finally erm there 's only one of you doing er so you Robert going for the savings , you 're doing savings are n't you ? |
| 27 | Notts County about to cave in as Town went for the kill . |
| 28 | The Kirgiz leader , Masaliev , called for a unitary USSR with a strong centre ; most other republican first secretaries , however , called for a renewed federation , and the Armenian leader Movsisyan went for the more radical idea of the USSR as a union of sovereign states based upon a network of bilateral associations . |
| 29 | Alain went for the gap , Steve moved over and Alain locked up the brakes flat-out in top . |
| 30 | The domestiques expire , their work done , the master sprinters go for the line , weaving in front of each other , kicking the bike towards glory . |