Example sentences of "[conj] go for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both parents were able to devote a great deal of time to their son , walking with him in the park or going for carriage drives , sometimes as far as La Malmaison , for which Napoleon III had a special affection because of its links with his mother and grandmother . |
| 2 | Raimi never quite decides whether to play it straight or go for camp laughs , although some major-league hamming from Neeson rather takes the decision out of his hands . |
| 3 | ‘ Than to go for strychnine — that 's what it looks like to me , and you can see that he had a rough passage out . |
| 4 | P. He is so much more powerful , and goes for stuff fully . |
| 5 | And mixed farming instead of taking up his hedges and going for wheat or sugar beet like the rest of them . ’ |
| 6 | Director General Sir Michael Checkland put a question mark over favourites like Big Break , Telly Addicts and Going For Gold yesterday . |
| 7 | Instead , he wanted his wingers to beat the defender on the inside and go for goal themselves . |
| 8 | Currency traders around the world remain fearful that the Government will be tempted to cut interest rates and go for growth , risking a fresh fall in sterling and another bout of inflation . |
| 9 | She began a vigorous slapping of hands and face while Melissa , on legs that would barely carry her , stepped shakily over the inert form and went for help . |
| 10 | The deadline has come and gone for ball companies to sign up to the new and revised agreement to be part of the LTA 's pool of ball sponsors for British tennis events . |
| 11 | She 'd rescued this woman — his aunt presumably — from her crashed car , and gone for help . |
| 12 | The increase was even felt to be too great : in 1964 , when British groups reached 212 , it was decided to slow down the growth in the UK — not to ‘ act upon the ephemeral enthusiasms of an odd individual ’ , but to go for quality . |
| 13 | But going for gold these days is more down to money than motivation . |
| 14 | Still considering whether to go for microfilm with computer-aided retrieval , or a DIP ( document image processing ) system . |
| 15 | Quite often a decision has to be made whether to go for quantity or quality . |
| 16 | — When going for country walks , one often comes across a railway line , and it is tempting to walk along either beside the rails or stepping on the sleepers between the rails . |