Example sentences of "[adv] go [adv prt] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | we only went out for forty minutes , we were surprised how long we 'd been gone |
| 2 | Cos we only go in for one drink to cel , celebrate Penny 's birthday with her . |
| 3 | But the troops will only go in for humanitarian reasons including the protection of supplies . |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't normally go in for public displays of affection , ’ he murmured , ‘ but you 're irresistible . |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't normally go in for public displays of affection either , ’ she murmured impulsively , forgetting her uneasiness , ‘ but even with sand on your face you 're … ’ |
| 6 | Is a search still going on for missing material ? |
| 7 | And it 's still going on for another season . |
| 8 | The Civilization Society more deliberately went out for bipartisan support and one result was that the six Conservative MPs who belonged to only one antislavery body chose to give their support to it . |
| 9 | The arts community has always gone in for manic attention-seeking , of course — the oxygen of publicity ( to borrow a phrase ) being crucial to its survival . |
| 10 | It also goes on for bloody ages . |
| 11 | He also goes in for creative self-plundering by way of rhetorical and dialectical self-parody . |
| 12 | Incidentally , it does n't include the disposal of Smithmark We 've also er we 've also gone in for other cost reduction exercises , for instance at er Dalton with a review of warehousing and distribution er , we should save about a million pounds in a full year and we 've been ramming home to our chief executives the need for annual payroll reviews to be geared to the profitability of the company rather than t rather than to the rate of inflation er , or even , er in , even the market place . |
| 13 | The debate has now gone on for thirty minutes . |
| 14 | Buck rabbits on their own seldom or never go in for serious digging . |
| 15 | ‘ Diana is an Uptown girl who has never gone in for downtown men , ’ observes Rory Scott . |
| 16 | Well anyway , I I 'll definitely go up for half a day a week you know . |
| 17 | But it was Beckett who invented bedsit absurdism , and occasionally went in for theatrical fourth-wall busting ( ‘ What is there to keep us here ? ’ |
| 18 | They never went in for small talk ( ‘ Had a nice day at the office , darling ? ’ complete with obligatory peck . |