Example sentences of "[pers pn] go [adv prt] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No , David asked me to go back for coffee but I refused . ’ |
| 2 | Oh there was quite a few pas when I past I went up for paper but I did n't call in and vote , you know , |
| 3 | I went out for lunch and left the speech in the back of a taxi . |
| 4 | but that was sold out until the day when I went in for milk |
| 5 | But you see , you get a lot of these courses and , I went in for reflexology , I went on a lovely |
| 6 | When I went in for medicine I had the feeling that maybe I would take out an appendix on the kitchen table … now this has been a big disappointment of my life as a GP that whatever I can do , there 's someone else who can do much , much better . |
| 7 | ‘ Could n't I see her , before she goes in for surgery ? ’ |
| 8 | Are you going out for breakfast ? |
| 9 | Will there be people of different ages all doing separate things or do you go in for family activities or both ? |
| 10 | " So you went out for air . " |
| 11 | you went out for lunch on er Tuesday , you went to Eldon Square and you had your lunch there |
| 12 | Well why ca n't she go out for christmas dinner ? |
| 13 | ‘ You go in for blackmail as well , Private Nobody ? ’ |
| 14 | Couched in the right terms , that seems to fall within the ambit of a Consolidated Fund Bill debate , or one of the Adjournment debates before we go off for Christmas . |
| 15 | Obviously , at the moment we 're not publicly pointing the finger at your five chums , so we went in for blanket forensic tests on everyone and examination of everyone 's quarters . ’ |
| 16 | We went in for agitprop caricature and grotesque exaggeration . |
| 17 | and then at lunchtime er first day we went out for lunch somewhere but erm |
| 18 | We went out for dinner , |
| 19 | ‘ We went out for dinner and married six months later . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Anyway , ’ my girlfriend said , ‘ the first time we went out for dinner , you did n't pay for me . |
| 21 | We went out for dinner that evening and I asked Sheila why she 'd brought an egg poacher . |
| 22 | Er we went out for dinner actually with some |
| 23 | We went out for supper in an Italian restaurant . |
| 24 | ‘ Loads of women still expect a man to pay when they go out for dinner . |
| 25 | Afterwards , he added , they went out for lunch together . |
| 26 | ‘ After they gave up twelve-furrow work — when the machines came in — they went in for flat-work , wide stetches , even on the heaviest land , of anything up to eighteen yards . |
| 27 | They went in for warmth . |
| 28 | But typewriters we had problems with because , if they went in for repair , you never got them back from the Ordinance Core , and so at one place in Tunbridge Wells we handed a typewriter in and because the army were allowed to buy greaseproof paper , we bought a lot of greaseproof paper which came in the package of a new typewriter . |
| 29 | They went in for half-time one up and within minutes of coming out were two up … with top scorer Craig Maskell raising the roof … |
| 30 | What , has he gone in for surgery ? |