Example sentences of "go [adv] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Going away for the week-end , are you , love ? ’ she said . |
| 32 | Oh , must be Friday then , I knew they were going away for the week , weekend |
| 33 | It 's hard to imagine UI going elsewhere for the stuff . |
| 34 | ‘ You 'd make them a lot happier if you 'd start singing again , ’ Candy returned , going unerringly for the jugular . |
| 35 | And then you could go on going home for the vacations . |
| 36 | ‘ We 'll take a quick break for some tea and then we should be ready to run it up in another hour , ’ he briefs Captain Tuck-Brown , who has come across to check on progress before going home for the day . |
| 37 | No , the , the , the extension of them going up for the cup and all , that 's what it was . |
| 38 | So that 's when I was eating my dinner , when they were going up for the cup and she fell asleep , well you know with the wine in you , here was my eyes all out for the count . |
| 39 | The marquees have been going up for the Hay on Wye festival of Literature which begins tonight . |
| 40 | And seen gillies going out for the Stenness Hotel s with sailing boats , I 've seen eight leaving there in the morning I went to school . |
| 41 | Is n't it awful to think your legs decide what your retirement 's going to be , but they do , more or less , so that if you th if you think a if you 've ever had any trouble with them you 'll realize , people say , you know , would you , we 're going out for the day , you coming ? |
| 42 | And , by the way , the reason I have to go is because Joanna is going out for the day with Ian Woodall . ’ |
| 43 | These friends from up north are coming for the weekend , so we 're going out for the weekend |
| 44 | And that 's all now so Val said she said I said to Cheryl now do n't you go and take Mervy away cos me and Ken certainly are n't gon na go and sit sit with erm the 's all dinner time so she said what they 're gon na do , they 're going out for the meal and everything and then they 're Ken are gon na go to Cheryl 's for the rest of the day So I said so that 's upset your plans then Val she said is n't it just ! |
| 45 | ‘ Every client I treat usually loses at least an inch — so it 's ideal if you 're going out for the evening and want to wear a specially tight outfit . ’ |
| 46 | Philip Larkin , a life-long bachelor , memorialised that dilemma in ‘ Vers de société ’ ( 1971 ) , a short poem where the conclusion , though finely balanced , is only marginally in favour of going out for the evening . |
| 47 | And for people coming in , going out for the step . |
| 48 | The second trial was going well for the Masons when it , too , was stopped after 11 weeks . |
| 49 | Yet , at the end of a week of alternating euphoria and gloom , the sober verdict so far must be that the military side of this war is going well for the allies . |
| 50 | To do that would be an achievement because at present the unchartable wilderness of trees seemed as unstable a nowhere as a cloudless sky or as fields under a carpet of snow , a world in which they might go round and round , and from which they might never emerge , a world in which there was no point in going anywhere for the reason that there simply was … nowhere . |
| 51 | As hard as Marshall try to convey the message of versatility in this type of combo , I defy anyone who plugs into it for the first time not to go straight for the overdrive sounds : ‘ If it 's a Marshall then it 's going to rock , whether it wants to or not ! ’ |
| 52 | Not Adam Burns , though — oh no , he had to go straight for the jugular . |
| 53 | He cuts out the middle men and women — the dreaded parents — and goes straight for the hearts and minds of kids . |
| 54 | Last night angry shareholders called on the Deanses to go now for the good of the 117-year-old club . |
| 55 | Lads who spent the working day in jeans got dressed up in a suit to go out for the night . |
| 56 | One day a week , the men were allowed a dark suit to go out for the day to visit friends or relatives . |
| 57 | And just when you thought it was safe to go out for the evening , let me remind you that Scotsport Extra Time is back after a week off . |
| 58 | Most people are ready to go out for the evening at that time , ’ laughs Ted . |
| 59 | ‘ You have to go out for the kids , you have to go to the schools and sign autographs . |
| 60 | She never buys a paper and never goes out for the evening . |