Example sentences of "go in for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The royal family does not go in for oratory , so the policy is evident mostly in endless American- and British-made videos on television , boasting of Saudi Arabia 's military and industrial prowess . |
| 2 | Though Locke did go in for some experimental work , his main contribution to the ethos of the Society was to do what Bacon had quite failed to do . |
| 3 | The Old Testament does not go in for saints . |
| 4 | Genesis does not go in for saints ( though Joseph will , perhaps , approach that status ) . |
| 5 | if I won bigger money , I should go in for a new house , which would be built to our own idea , so that we could get a bigger scullery … . |
| 6 | I do n't go in for numbers as names . |
| 7 | Though he kept a folder packed with suggestions for new volumes , he was keen to emphasise their serious didactic nature : ‘ We do n't go in for quick quack books . ’ |
| 8 | Maybe the Sergeant Major would go in for some Greek dancing , and smash all the house DJ 's records instead of plates . |
| 9 | ‘ We are not a national daily ; we do not go in for moral crusades . ’ |
| 10 | If so , perhaps you should go in for it . |
| 11 | I 'm an old-fashioned textual critic , not a biographer — I do n't go in for this sort of — it was n't profit — I 'll put them back next week — I wanted them to be a secret . |
| 12 | I exaggerate , of course : they do n't go in for tears , they just ignore me . |
| 13 | I wonder more people do n't go in for that sort of thing . |
| 14 | Parker did not go in for German beer . |
| 15 | ‘ I do n't go in for other stuff , ’ he said . |
| 16 | The French do not go in for diphthongs but have at least one vowel sound that almost defeats the Anglo-Saxon . |
| 17 | ‘ Yorkshiremen do n't go in for paying compliments , ’ she said . |
| 18 | And when , to show what a good little wife I had become — Nonni thought that my aunts did not ‘ appreciate ’ me , meaning that they did not go in for endearments or tell me how pretty I looked — she pointed out , one Sunday lunchtime , how well I had starched the table napkins , Aunt Lilian said , ‘ But why ? |
| 19 | But the troops will only go in for humanitarian reasons including the protection of supplies . |
| 20 | We were not at a party , he did not go in for brunettes , and I was very much his junior . |
| 21 | ‘ Stop fussing , ’ said Joe , ‘ I do n't go in for that sort of thing . |
| 22 | I said I was n't cuttin' no-one 's throat , I did n't go in for it . |
| 23 | He 'll go in for about four months , they 'll give him shock treatment and all that , but as soon as he comes out he starts drinking again . |
| 24 | Enya does n't go in for intellectual analysis of her music much , but when I tell her these first reactions to her heart- breakingly beautiful new album , ‘ Shepherd Moons ’ , she lights up with a certain delighted relief that two years of studio work seems to be hitting the right target . |
| 25 | Did he go in for it from school ? |
| 26 | Kenya has been so dependent on official aid and structural adjustment loans that its government dared not go in for countertrading — despite the fact that , like Brazil , it was surrounded by poor , debt-ridden neighbours . |
| 27 | " We do n't go in for flowers , " said Clelia , displaying with a sweep of her arm the lower level , curiously cluttered with urns , a bench , a dislocated piece of mosaic resting on its end , and a functionless fountain . |
| 28 | I think we should go in for 10,000 of these ones … " |
| 29 | Even when I arrived back at Thornfield , I did not go in for a while . |
| 30 | We do n't go in for presents . |