Example sentences of "[pers pn] go [adv prt] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 're going to take him to Italy when I go over for the collections . |
| 2 | For all this however , he has an iron nerve and told me , ‘ I have never been scared but when I go out for the National I get a tingling sensation . |
| 3 | anyway the girl said well I 'll ring first to see where you get your application form she , and the , Sue phoned and was on the other end and I said oh you should apparently you 've got have erm , er , application form and Mrs going to send you one , I said is that Mrs on the line she said is that Mrs speaking , she said yeah , I said will you tell it 's Mrs she said oh , well , tell Mrs she 's no need to apply I 've got all her details and she is being looked at , you know , we are looking into it anyway erm , as I say I had this letter just after Christmas to say that there was a job coming up at the Mencap at Wellingborough Road , Rushden , and I was being selected and erm would I go up for the informal interview on the Monday and the formal interview at the hospital the next morning , so I went up got the first person there and er she , she , it 's a new , it 's an old house but they 've done it all up and there all papers on the floor and then she said oh I think I 'll pick these up Ir Irene , I said oh call me Joy everybody does and she said alright , OK , I said oh I 'll help you so of course I said , I went straight down with her on the floor picking all these papers up and she , and when the next person come she said poor old Joy ai n't even got in the door and that 's it , she 's already working and she said I can see you 're like me Joy you 'll do a job when you see it 's got ta be done , I said I 've always been the same , I ca n't , I ca n't see a spoon or a bit of paper laying on the floor |
| 4 | ‘ It was made in his atelier so I went over for the fittings and in those years I was very sure of myself . |
| 5 | It went on and on until I was nearly frantic , so I went out for the evening several times in one week to release the tension . |
| 6 | I went out for the day , and came back to find the room full of thick smoke from Holmes ' pipe . |
| 7 | Amy and I went out for the day . |
| 8 | But then I thought , ‘ I 'll show him , ’ and I went in for the Pub Entertainer of the Year contest . |
| 9 | when I went in for the steamer |
| 10 | One enterprising young man gathered 60 ration books into his brief-case and persuaded an RCAF pilot , due for a recognizance flight that day , to fly him several hundred miles across the provincial border to Atlin , B.C. At the friendly invitation of those concerned I went along for the ride and helped my energetic friends load five cases of Johnny Walker , which we transported back to Whitehorse well in time for a Saturday night party . |
| 11 | I went along for the ride ; Mrs Goreng needed moral support and a straight guy to conduct an emergency dialogue with , if the need arose . |
| 12 | In my own defence I can say only that I went along for the ride , as it were , if you 'll forgive the expression , Mr Milton . ’ |
| 13 | No , the , the , the extension of them going up for the cup and all , that 's what it was . |
| 14 | ‘ Are n't you going in for the Swimming Gala ? ’ |
| 15 | If you if you go out for the kitchen you know or whatever it is |
| 16 | One of the things that I used to do was train and I know the feeling , I know the excitement , I know the adrenalin that pumps round the body , when you go in for the kill . |
| 17 | Then we went back for the long-service merit awards . |
| 18 | I , I , mean we had erm , we went out for the day and they give us it was sandwiches |
| 19 | Of course not , they 've been elected for a period , they serve to the end of that period , whether they 're made redundant or not , so they go on for the four year term . |
| 20 | They go in for the emotional point of view , and I thought it would help them see me in a fatherly light , giving him my own name . |
| 21 | They cut off their hands so that they go about for the rest of their lives with bleeding stumps . ’ |
| 22 | It might be needed if they went out for the day . |
| 23 | Apart from saying he had given up singing and trumpet-playing , he invented things , such as that his school had suggested he go in for the Young Musician of the Year contest . |
| 24 | He went up for the job , grinding his teeth , and got it . |
| 25 | I think we said to you on Friday erm both me and Roger actually said that he he went into er he went in for the kill and he c he came out with slaughter |
| 26 | He went back for the President , lifting him from behind by both elbows and walking him into the shower with his boxer shorts and his sandals on . |
| 27 | ‘ When you 've finished , it 'll look like a snooker table , ’ he said cheerfully , and , reversing deftly , he went back for the next lot . |
| 28 | He went back for the woman pedestrian he knocked down near a busy roundabout and helped her into his white Sierra car . |
| 29 | We then hit him over the head with the punt-pole and paddled off out of range of his piteously outstretched hands , cackling demonically as he went down for the third time . |
| 30 | But he went along for the ride , hoping he could put his spoke in and cancel the idea . |