Example sentences of "[verb] go for an [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Doris cuddled me on the way to the door but she must have let go for an instant ( perhaps I goosed her too eagerly ) because I went off on a run that would have taken me all the way downtown — further , to the Village , to Martina Twain — if the dessert trolley had n't been there to check my sprint .
2 But B of course if you did badly in those elections in May the government might have done badly in May , then morale would have been rock bottom of having to go into an election , he would have had to go for an election six weeks later or they 'd run out of time , yeah .
3 erm And here , I 'm going to go for an outsider really , erm I 'm going to go for Ashfield Charlie erm in trap two , Tommy Foster from Wimbledon trained runner this is .
4 Sometime in the near future you may have to go for an interview and therefore you will be asking yourself the following questions :
5 Obviously sixty miles an hours means if you keep going for an hour , you do sixty miles .
6 Thirty miles an hour , keep going for an hour you 'll only do thirty .
7 After an hour or so of drinking , these two gentlemen decided they wished to go for an afternoon drive around the local villages — a motor car around this time still being something of a novelty .
8 But in picking melees ( mixtures ) of medium-quality gems between a fifth and half a carat the kidnappers had gone for an area of the trade that is almost uncontrollable .
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