Example sentences of "have [adv] go [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Typically , Gedge has since gone in for his usual strict self-criticism . |
| 2 | Then Arthur Miller added : ‘ The thing to remember is that it has not gone away for ever . ’ |
| 3 | However the subscription has not gone up for 2 years and it is only a 15p per week rise . |
| 4 | A disused Victorian toilet block has just gone up for sale . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The debate has now gone on for thirty minutes . |
| 7 | I 've trained her , but she has n't gone in for the exams . |
| 8 | None of the European resorts has yet gone in for the wholesale investment in snow-making which we see in the United States , mainly because the capital outlay is enormous and the running costs extremely high . |
| 9 | ‘ Diana is an Uptown girl who has never gone in for downtown men , ’ observes Rory Scott . |
| 10 | But I think they 'd just gone back for the money creed and once you get that well erm they do n't realize that they could be falling into the trap unless we blokes stand firm now to maintain this standard of living . |
| 11 | In the second incident , involving the credit card , he had only gone along for the ride , and had not used the card himself , said Mr Harper . |
| 12 | ‘ I think we had better go inside for some explanations , ’ he said with a sigh . |
| 13 | She and had obviously gone away for the weekend . |
| 14 | Even when things had apparently gone well for fifteen years , the thinking population had been saying that the good times can never last : Surely enough , they came to an end in the mid 1970's . |
| 15 | The idea seemed to fit Lucy 's current expression , as though all hands had already gone down for the third time . |
| 16 | Those of us dropping into Dunedin with a touring international or provincial team could usually rely , if things had not gone well for Otago , on Mains later proclaiming that his side had in some way been unfairly treated either by fate or the referee . |
| 17 | Tamar had just gone upstairs for her needlework when Jim Fairly , the tenant of Paradise Farm , drove down the village with the body under a blanket on a flat cart . |
| 18 | People like EMF and Jesus Jones have had a go , but they 've always gone more for the rock aspect , with the technology just tagged on as an afterthought . |
| 19 | And as often as you tell yourself she 's not your type , that you do n't like blondes , your taste tends towards the browns , even redheads but not blondes , no ; and what 's more , her face is round , but you do n't like round faces ; and you 've always gone in for a bit of shape and she 's flat as a pancake . |
| 20 | At Bhamdoun , a hill resort with a little railway station , an ornate French signal box and a clutch of mosques and apartment blocks built by the Saudis who had once gone there for their summer holidays , Syrian shellfire had smashed into the shops and flats , punching a hole into the wall of the Carlton Hotel . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Over at Thorsbury , the summer had also gone well for Stephen Lassiter . |
| 23 | After an evening of pleasure and profit with my friends in Bank Street , I had clearly gone out for a drink or two . |
| 24 | Even his own notorious plant , which had consistently gone downhill for ten years under his active leadership , had been steadily increasing efficiency and output for several weeks without interruption . |
| 25 | They 've dearly gone on for years not knowing , let alone tonsillectomies , what |
| 26 | He 's only gone back for |
| 27 | ‘ Do n't imagine you can take it out on me because things have not gone right for you at the party . |
| 28 | But , the view is that the good times have not gone away for ever . |
| 29 | Similarly it was in a private letter that a Cornish mine agent wrote in 1793 : The common tinners continue to be very refractory and insolent : many of them refuse to work , and have not gone underground for three weeks past — They have no cause for it for their wages have been rather too high lately than otherwise ; the consequence has been too much brandy drinking and other bad practices . |
| 30 | He 's just gone out for … but I never heard what it was , because I went . |