Example sentences of "go [adv] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Started as they meant to go on for the holiday . |
| 2 | The National Lottery will be the enemy of proper planning in all areas ; it will encourage short-term thinking , and it will be the perfect excuse for the Treasury to go in for the kind of sleight-of-hand just described . |
| 3 | I mean given that you 've got a , oh I do n't know , a pound you 're going to spend a week in gambling entertainment , if I could put it that way , you 'd do better to go in for the pools , because if you did have a win you might have a big one , than to put it on a horse — am I right ? |
| 4 | Like a car needs to go in for the M O T , you 've got ta |
| 5 | Her mother goes in for the bingo . |
| 6 | Nicky Cruz and his gang , the Mau Maus , decide to go along for the ride … . |
| 7 | Maurice was deserted , Maurice having been invited , as he quite often was , to go down for the day to Brighton . |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't notice you laughing when I have to go away for the night . |
| 9 | On one occasion she packed up her car as if about to go away for the weekend , then sauntered up the street , leading the press to believe she had gone to buy a packet of Polos . |
| 10 | He had hidden it , thinking it would come in useful if he persuaded any girls to go away for the weekend with him . |
| 11 | Jean Parmiter sent her apologies for being unable to teach as arranged ; she and her husband had had to go away for the weekend . |
| 12 | When he was at school , but he used to go home for the Christmas holidays and nobody saw him again till about March cos he was , he could n't even get to Rothbury he was snowed in . |
| 13 | A couple of weeks later , just as most of the officers and men of the Allied Screening Commission in Verona were preparing to go off for the weekend to the country , an enormous , chauffeur-driven Fiat motor car with a flag on the front of it rolled up in the drive . |
| 14 | And the miserable hotchpotch of confused ideas and pressures was quietly buried in the depths of her mind , just as a wilderness of plants dies down and goes underground for the winter . |
| 15 | Even while the war was going badly for the English , they suffered fewer major military defeats , and fewer English nobles had to pay ransoms than received payments from their French equivalents . |
| 16 | They tell us what 's been happening on the unit that we 're going to be working on , so that we know what 's been going on for the morning . ’ |
| 17 | In the West End there seems at the moment a tendency to rely too much on the goodwill of actors which is often accompanied by a failure to maintain a true interest in what is going on for the actor . |
| 18 | ‘ We only wanted athletes of distinction and no one is going along for the trip , ’ Murray said . |
| 19 | So erm I was feeling a bit edgy about this when we were in the pub after the concert cos I thought maybe he 's reading things into it and I , you know , I was just going along for the music . |
| 20 | In November 1974 , it was he who talked me into going along for the audition for ‘ New faces ’ at the Blue Angel nightclub in Leeds . |
| 21 | ‘ Are n't you going in for the Swimming Gala ? ’ |
| 22 | He was n't going in for the Eddie . |
| 23 | Who were going in for the exam and I were n't allowed to help them . |
| 24 | He said he was going in for the Spot the Talent competition at the Easter Fete . |
| 25 | When Frank heard that Michael thought of going in for the prize on this set book he was indignant and sent a message to Michael , ‘ Who in his senses would read a book by a bishop ? ’ |
| 26 | And that was for them going just for the day . |
| 27 | He must , if he is going away for the winter , turn off the water and empty the boiler . |
| 28 | Sorry , old boy , going away for the weekend . ’ |
| 29 | I sha n't be there , gone out , going away for the weekend . |
| 30 | And then you 're going away for the weekend ? |