Example sentences of "[pron] go [adv] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We shall see whether I 've learnt enough when I go up for those exams . |
| 2 | and then if I , I go out for another one , that means two evening evenings back |
| 3 | send you these things , I go in for all the competitions and I never put a stamp on the envelope unless I 'm ordering something |
| 4 | That was an experience I went through for many months , not saying anything . |
| 5 | I mention this now to Gordon and he chuckles : ‘ I went specially for that shot . |
| 6 | Well , I went down for that Christmas . |
| 7 | And like I went down for that one Monday . |
| 8 | I missed several classes because they put me up in , for instance I , when I came up from the infants to the big school I missed the first standard and they put me into standard two and I went from two , three , four , five , six , seven and seven and I was only eleven , you see , so I did pretty well and then the Headmaster came to my parents and said , why do n't you let her go in for a scholarship to Stowmarket Secondary and so I went in for that and er there was one other girl went as well , there were two of us and erm , and of course we only heard during the summer break and er we passed . |
| 9 | But I did n't give up , I went in for another and I came third again , and then I gave up , so that was the end of that . |
| 10 | Well it 'd probably be the June or July before I went in for this exam , which they did n't hold very frequently and er then I had to pass this exam and that I could leave school in the August , Bank Holiday . |
| 11 | Kathleen and I went off for some lunch and we then went to have a look at the castle . |
| 12 | I know , I was I went up for some chips at the top |
| 13 | A routine was established which went on for more than a year . |
| 14 | A demand for the ‘ noblest ’ architecture inevitably meant that Nonconformity was caught up in the debates over the value of Gothic architecture which went on for most of the Victorian period . |
| 15 | This movement , which went on for some time , gave Franca ( and Ludens agreed with her later ) the sense that Marcus was actually creating Patrick . |
| 16 | Then began a remarkable conversation which went on for some time ; it was getting on for five when she left . |
| 17 | She 's with a boy our age — a toy boy — and though he deserts her for young girls and even beats her up — she 's such a sucker for punishment , she goes back for more . |
| 18 | Why did n't you go in for that ? |
| 19 | I also have a girlfriend who went out for several years with a man who did n't wear underpants at all and only washed his jeans once a month . |
| 20 | ‘ You 're a brave man if you go back for another of these things , ’ he adds , gesturing at a dodgy-looking sausage sandwich . |
| 21 | ‘ You can get a good view of the moonlight on the lake , if you go in for that sort of thing . |
| 22 | I gather there are plenty of crackpots who go in for that sort of thing . |
| 23 | ( She went on for another seven ! ) . |
| 24 | She had had no life of her own for several years ; if she went out for half an hour , she had to leave messages all round the flat , telling Yury she 'd be back soon , otherwise he would panic . |
| 25 | Berkeley denies that we go in for such calculations in judging distances . |
| 26 | In terms of the definition of er what is historic York I think again an issue we went over for some length of time at the greenbelt inquiry , I would draw your attention back to my earlier comments that York is basically a modern industrial city with a very precious historic core , that historic core er represents no more than actually five percent of the built up area , that something like eighty five percent of the city was built after eighteen hundred , the view that was expressed by the County in N Y Two , in terms of the definition of the greenbelt , the Greater York greenbelt and its purposes was not accepted by the City Council , we do not accept that all of the func elements of the York greenbelt contribute towards preserving the character of the historic city , we rely on the the fact that the two comments the Senior Inspector made at this , the the green wedges and historic core itself that establish the historic character of the city , there are many parts of the edge of York which could repli be replicated in many cities , historic or otherwise around the country and finally just coming back to the issue of scale of development erm the point I should have made earlier about the house builders figures for the city of York is that the house builders did suggest a figure of four thousand for the city , erm , I 'm not aware on what basis that was made , but clearly my evidence would quite clearly indicate that I believe that could not be accommodated , certainly on any known sites within the cit current city boundary , thank you Chair . |
| 27 | I think , if we went on for another half an hour or forty five minutes , we could clear virtually everything . |
| 28 | So that 's probably why they go in for more of these courses things |
| 29 | They went on for some way in silence . |
| 30 | But it was before they went in for all the cryptonyms and digraphs and five-letter codes because that 's what computers like … ’ |