Example sentences of "[verb] go for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We do n't want to go for the sort of so called innovation that can alienate an audience , ’ he exclaims when we talk about the sometimes clichéd dynamics of their music . |
| 2 | ‘ We were taught to go for the jugular , ’ Buckmaster remarked . |
| 3 | Those who are brave enough to hope for one of the few lectureships around tend to go for the astronomy or nuclear physics . |
| 4 | But Paul says : ‘ There 's no way they 're coming they just want to go for the ale ! ’ |
| 5 | And how did you know to go for the dolls ' bed ? ’ |
| 6 | Once that 's secured and defended at least once , Weir wants to go for the flyweight title , held until recently by Pat Clinton . |
| 7 | Literary criticism is doing here what it often does : it has gone for the faults and , in so doing , inverted the truth . |
| 8 | When that did n't work out he went to Mal at Monad where they 'd gone for the villanelle . |
| 9 | I thought you said you 'd gone for the evening , Rosalind . ’ |
| 10 | But he was n't going to risk going for the green in two — he 's a gambler , but he 's not stupid , not with a one-stroke lead — and so he hit a wedge for his second shot short of the lake and then a 155-yard 9-iron directly over the flag for his approach . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Were we on coke when we said , in the summer , that we were going to go for the sonnet ? ’ |
| 13 | Yes , it 's very hard because you get to that stage where you know you can only really push forward for so long , then when it you know , the whistle looms near , you try and you know , you 're just going to go for the result really , and keep it you know , a clean sheet and just get a point out of the game . |
| 14 | For days the team had sat out harrowing gales and -50C temperatures , waiting to go for the top . |
| 15 | ‘ Apparently his wife has some hot-shot L.A. lawyer who intends to go for the jugular . |
| 16 | Do you elect to go for the drop goal or go for the try ? |
| 17 | I just did n't quite judge it right , so I decided to go for the hole rather than ipe the team out ! |
| 18 | Preston drained his glass and decided to go for the bottle in the next interlude . |
| 19 | He joined the RAF fresh from A-levels and says he decided to go for the degree so he would have another string to his bow . |
| 20 | The set had reached deuce when Mrs Beattie decided to go for the advantage point . |
| 21 | I decided to go for the barn and struck lucky twice in a row . |
| 22 | I decided to go for the pills first , but after three months I was still in agony so I went for the laser operation . |
| 23 | A few days before the European Planning Committee was due to meet , Mueller decided to go for the jugular . |
| 24 | He decided to go for the label of being a careful writer . |
| 25 | No , I 've got to revise for my erm science test tomorrow and I 've got loads of stuff to do , I 've got to keep going for the weekend , actually I have n't got that much to do , I 've got drama that I can do if you just would be so kind turn over to number three so I can have a look at some adverts I 've got a , will there be any adverts after |
| 26 | It could n't have been hit by a missile because we know there are no missile-carrying planes around — even if there were , a heat-seeking missile , the only type that could nail it at that altitude , would have gone for the engines , not the nose cone . |
| 27 | A harsher critic would have gone for the jugular and claimed that this was a blunt reiteration of those dormant adolescent prejudices . |
| 28 | He 'd have gone for the Toraja " star funeral " , too , if we only knew when it was happening . |
| 29 | ‘ You mean go for the jugular — his bank balance ? ’ |
| 30 | R : in those days + when we were young + there was no local fire engine here + it was just a two-wheeled trolley which was kept in the borough + in the borough eh store down on James Street + and whenever a fire broke out + it was just a question of whoever saw the fire first yelling ‘ Fire ’ + and the nearest people ran for the trolley and how they got on with it goodness knows + nobody was trained in its use + anyway everybody knew to go for the trolley + well + when we were children + we used to use this taw [ t– : ] + it smouldered furiously + black thick smoke came from it and we used to get it burning + and then go to a letter box and just keep blowing + open the letter box + and just keep blowing the smoke in + you see + till you 'd fill up the lower part of the house with nothing but smoke + there was no fire + but just fill it up with smoke + just to put the breeze up + just as a joke + and then of course + when somebody would open a window or a door the smoke would come pouring out + and then + everybody was away then for the trolley + we just stood and watched all of them + + |