Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I 'd like to go in for a bit , but there 's loads of people in there and I ai n't got no washing to do . |
| 32 | Firemen were called to the river Taff in Llandaff to rescue Eric , a 10-stone Irish Wolfhound who had got into deep water after deciding to go in for a swim . |
| 33 | ‘ The players have to be prepared to put themselves into dangerous positions , to go in for a hard tackle , be brave and take the blows . |
| 34 | It 's easier for you to experiment to see how it works than for me to go in for a detailed but boring explanation . |
| 35 | One of my other SCOTTISH OFFICE contacts has asked me to go in for a sandwich lunch on Wednesday ( 25th ) , which is kind . |
| 36 | You need the permission of the owner to go in for a title search so you 'd have to know the owner first . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | Like a car needs to go in for the M O T , you 've got ta |
| 40 | I mean given that you 've got a , oh I do n't know , a pound you 're going to spend a week in gambling entertainment , if I could put it that way , you 'd do better to go in for the pools , because if you did have a win you might have a big one , than to put it on a horse — am I right ? |
| 41 | Information derived from the national health service internal market on general practitioner and patient preferences and on comparative costs will help the service to plan sensibly for the future , in London as elsewhere . |
| 42 | You 'll probably find when you register you 're invited to go along for a new patient medical anyway , and all sorts of things like that . |
| 43 | Nicky Cruz and his gang , the Mau Maus , decide to go along for the ride … . |
| 44 | Spike , of course , kept saying " He wants us to go down for a drink . " |
| 45 | I 'd say we 'll have to do more than that , I 'd say we 'll have to go down for a week . |
| 46 | Maurice was deserted , Maurice having been invited , as he quite often was , to go down for the day to Brighton . |
| 47 | Nevertheless , it may be prudent to provide expressly for the payment of rent where , for example , the property remains empty while the tenant is seeking to assign his lease . |
| 48 | ‘ Pat Nevin , our other scorer , has not been able to train properly for the last five weeks because of an ankle problem . ’ |
| 49 | The stylistic aplomb of the article may have us accepting the analogous links made between cockfighting and the totality of Balinese society without realising that these links are too fragmentary and partial to stand properly for the whole . |
| 50 | However , the charges on both money and other property may be postponed or other property substituted , especially where the money or property is required to provide somewhere for the assisted person to live . |
| 51 | At £17.50 a ticket , I expected the band to come on for a bit longer or were they all dashing off to see Lady Chatterley too ? |
| 52 | If not , she could try to find somewhere for a cup of tea . |
| 53 | These have led colleges , departments and individual staff members to recognise the need to provide effectively for a multi-racial and multi- lingual student body . |
| 54 | At first he was asked to stand literally for a couple of seconds before being praised and asked to walk on . |
| 55 | ‘ And — ah — I shall be in my study , and delighted to meet any of you , should you care to come along for a chat , ’ said the headmaster , very much as an afterthought , and clearly hoping they would n't . |
| 56 | He never wrote entirely admiring reviews : ‘ It 's the essence of a book never to be perfect , ’ he said , ‘ so its writer must expect to come in for a little criticism . ’ |
| 57 | If you 'd care to come in for a cup of tea , now that you 've got out and everything , you 'd be most welcome . |
| 58 | We used to come in for a fair amount of ribbing and good-natured chaff , and remarks like , Was it a red sky this morning ? |
| 59 | In their early twenties they had a group called the Actors and RCA records asked them to come in for a meeting . |
| 60 | She said politely , ‘ Would you like to come in for a last drink ? ’ |