Example sentences of "[verb] go for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had few friends in the locality , preferring to go for long walks in the nearby countryside with the family dog , until , that is , Ronald Travis took up his duties in the signal box . |
| 2 | The only time I 've ever frozen in an exam was when I 'd gone for three exams solid without kip , one after the other , and I just brain and the other ones were a real struggle and I had to graft my marks out of solid granite y'know I was chiselling away . |
| 3 | Were we going to go for impersonal macro-solutions , or were we going to realise that the people were looking for us as their leaders to provide an answer to their difficulties ? |
| 4 | ‘ You seem to go for older men , ’ he remarked cynically . |
| 5 | Y , you , you h , you want , you 've got to go for neutral colours , that 's going to sort of stress the less number of people have n't you ? |
| 6 | Did they try to go for passing shots as they stood two feet behind the baseline ? |
| 7 | These days you do not have to go for matching suites of furniture in the dining room , any more than you have to go for three piece suites in the living room . |
| 8 | With the recession the local labour council has refused to go for new jobs and at the height of this , they sacked the man whose job it was to bring jobs to Swindon . |
| 9 | Why she was here , she could n't imagine ; but her head was clearer than it had been in a long time , which meant that she must have gone for some hours without any kind of an injection . |
| 10 | ‘ The sort I could really have gone for twenty years ago . ’ |
| 11 | Doing sixty miles every hour , and I keep going for ten hours . |
| 12 | ‘ I told him how I had to go for special lessons and how other kids would sometimes laugh or pick on me . |
| 13 | To the west , I 've gone for hot reds , yellows and oranges , planting a red-stemmed Cornus alba ‘ Westonbirt ’ to make a fiery contrast with the golden conifer . |
| 14 | I had gone for further studies to Pakistan and I got married there . |