Example sentences of "going for " in BNC.
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| 1 | And in tutorials there is opportunity to take well judged risks — by which I mean being unafraid of going for the character and seeing where it leads — even with well known speeches . |
| 2 | There may not be much they can do , but what else is there going for you now ? ’ |
| 3 | The shelter that Jenny had found for me was in Camden Town , not too far away , so in order not to arrive there before it got going for the evening , I dawdled a little , window-shopping . |
| 4 | Plants tend to grow big and lush on heavy soils , a feature worth enhancing by going for vigorous species . |
| 5 | Power the lower leg into the target , aiming for a light smack if attacking the head , or a more solid thump if going for the ribs . |
| 6 | She potters over , ‘ I 'm going for a walk , so if I feel sick I wo n't puke all over your lawn . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ There 's only a few minutes left , they 'll never … wait wait , Steven has it , he 's come from nowhere and yes , he 's going for a shot ! … ’ |
| 8 | Charrington 's kept going for longer , but in 1975 , after 218 years , brewing ceased at the Anchor brewery . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Time will tell whether collecting the alpine 4000ers will become as popular as Munro bagging , but for a real challenge , how about going for a complete set of 150 peaks and 4000m tops ! |
| 11 | Among Max 's other hobbies are going for long walks , travelling in the car and sitting on the fax machine , which always gives him a surprise when it starts working . |
| 12 | Yeats divagated into Virgil 's territory only when , in 1915 , he wrote Per Amica Silentia Lunae , going for that title to Aeneid , 2 , 255 : A Tenedo tacitaeper amica silentia lunae . |
| 13 | Llanelli ....... 27 Leicester ....... 8 GOING for the gap took on a painful new meaning for Steve Bowling when he helped Llanelli claw their way back to win this entertaining game . |
| 14 | A sample : We 're coming in to land at Speke My legs are feeling very weak We 've just returned from Barcelona And now I 'm going for a sauna Toshack is of Scottish descent , and there is certainly a bit of McGonagall in there , though not the best bit . |
| 15 | In LBC 's case , for example , the LBC Crown FM is going for the upmarket listener , while the medium wave service , London Talkback Radio , is pitching for the tabloid market and the dedicated followers of phone-ins . |
| 16 | Day Out : Going for the gut reaction : James Rampton visits an exhibition serving Food For Thought |
| 17 | He kept fit at the university by playing a little hockey , in summer tennis , in winter walking and bicycling and going for runs . |
| 18 | But , said Ramsey , the idea that we can get Christian unity by going for a highest common factor and leaving everything else in the shadow will not work . |
| 19 | Or would Eden think of the air marshals , and the children who had lost their parents in a blitz , and former warriors who had seen too much blood on a battlefield , and exercise a silent veto , by going for the second preference ? |
| 20 | No sooner did he reach York than he resurrected the York Quarterly and kept it going for five years and nineteen numbers , with the arms of the see on the outer cover , and underneath , ‘ Editor : the Archbishop of York ’ . |
| 21 | Because he is not going for discovery or new connection or progression , but only to repeat upon himself a known reaction . |
| 22 | Mostly they were second-rate copies of the kind of American bar-room R&B bands the members of these pub bands had seen in the days when they had a bit more going for them and had actually made it to the States one time in the late sixties or early seventies . |
| 23 | I agreed but then thought , yes I do , what else have I got going for me ? |
| 24 | ‘ Going for medicine is a fairly tall order , is n't it ? |
| 25 | Team captain Peter Blyth will be going for a hat trick of wins as captain — all with different teams . |
| 26 | But I was not going for a bus ride , I was looking for the gents . |
| 27 | Tony announces that he is off for a crumble , an expression that has taken his fancy and replaced the computerese of going for a ‘ system dump . ’ |
| 28 | And , the way things had been going for Gerhard Berger , it was perhaps no surprise that it should be his McLaren which would suffer that fate . |
| 29 | Overlook the oddball Cynos badge on the back ( Cynos is derived from cynosure , or centre of attention ) and the cute rear-drive Toyota coupe has plenty going for it . |
| 30 | At £13,000 plus options ( like the CD ) , this is , short of the cabrio , the Escort/Orion flagship — thank heavens it has as much going for it as it does . |