Example sentences of "[adv] go [adv prt] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new puppy is very timid with strangers but now she is old enough to go out for walks , we have found she is growling at other dogs . |
| 2 | A disused Victorian toilet block has just gone up for sale . |
| 3 | We must look after not all of the sport , the high flyers , the starters , the beginners and those who just go out for enjoyment and potter . |
| 4 | They just went out for dinner , that sort of thing . ’ |
| 5 | We just went out for days and that really last week . |
| 6 | The show always goes on for Shirley |
| 7 | They 're always going down for anaesthetic , we ca n't find it . |
| 8 | But Fraser , pressed on the question of value for money resorted to other arguments : " they are more economical , but they are not so satisfactory , they are always going off for sickness of some kind or another , or their mother is ill or something of that kind — that is the greatest trouble , their mother is ill constantly " . |
| 9 | ‘ Those sessions usually go on for hours . ’ |
| 10 | are you do you ever go in for karaoke and stuff stuff like that ? |
| 11 | ‘ He told me he had once nearly gone in for psychiatry . |
| 12 | Do you know I if you ask Andrea about it , anything she 'll probably go on for ages , and ages , and ages , and ages ! |
| 13 | The search now goes on for cancers over a wider area . |
| 14 | In recent years , it 's been nice to know that I could decide to take my wife Lizzie on Concorde and not have to ask permission from the bank manager , but I 've never really gone in for extravagances — they all add up to too many paper rounds . |
| 15 | It might last a minute , an hour or even go on for days and there was nothing Dexter could do to fight it . |
| 16 | Indeed , those effects may well go on for generations , as a troubled parent will often produce troubled offspring of his own . |
| 17 | It sometimes cures itself , or sometimes goes on for years . |
| 18 | I then went off for lunch which was soup and crayfish . |
| 19 | The butler then went in for breeding dogs which he kept in large wire enclosures . |
| 20 | I tidied everything away and cleaned the shed up after my bomb-making activity , then went in for dinner . |
| 21 | Given such prompts , some informants may then go on for hours with their recollections and reminiscences . |
| 22 | They 've dearly gone on for years not knowing , let alone tonsillectomies , what |
| 23 | I mean that 's actually going in for Keagan ! |
| 24 | They did n't actually go in for sabotage or anything , did they ? ’ |