Example sentences of "go [adv] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Josie glanced at the old folding travel alarm that she kept open on the makeup table , and said , ‘ I have to go somewhere for a minute . |
| 2 | It goes on for a minute . |
| 3 | The Parks tournament at Calderstones Park , which starts on July 19 and goes on for a week , will have the added bonus of the Dunlop tennis roadshow , with Castle and other leading coaches topping the bill . |
| 4 | ‘ I — I just want to go below for a moment . ’ |
| 5 | You know , the computer goes down for a hour , it 's three-quarters of the day to get everything back and validated , and that 's a major interruption . |
| 6 | Firemen were called to the river Taff in Llandaff to rescue Eric , a 10-stone Irish Wolfhound who had got into deep water after deciding to go in for a swim . |
| 7 | You need the permission of the owner to go in for a title search so you 'd have to know the owner first . |
| 8 | I 'd like to go in for a bit , but there 's loads of people in there and I ai n't got no washing to do . |
| 9 | She had been accepted for the job at Ardis & Co , looking the way she normally looked , but if to keep her job — and she had no idea at that stage whether there was a Vasey junior , or similar , at G Vasey Ltd — she had to go in for a bit of de glamorisation , then so be it . |
| 10 | One of my other SCOTTISH OFFICE contacts has asked me to go in for a sandwich lunch on Wednesday ( 25th ) , which is kind . |
| 11 | Chris , tall , lithe and manly , strips off and goes in for a swim in his panda-briefs . |
| 12 | Yeah , and if goes in for a pint he gives you a packet now . |
| 13 | A packet now , goes in for a pint . |
| 14 | He goes in for a sort of hall-of-mirrors self-impersonation , telling people how he would have done the murder if he had done it ( which he has ) . |
| 15 | Spike , of course , kept saying " He wants us to go down for a drink . " |
| 16 | I 'd say we 'll have to do more than that , I 'd say we 'll have to go down for a week . |
| 17 | I would like to go just for a trial . |
| 18 | All the way through school , my mum used to go away for a fortnight 's rest during the summer and I would go and stay in one of the various holiday homes for disabled children . |
| 19 | If you have cavity wall insulation as well , the only way you can test for its effects is to go away for a while , to a house without sources of formaldehyde . |
| 20 | She wants to go away for a holiday , too . |
| 21 | For once the preciseness of the words did not irritate Aggie , and she answered gently , ‘ I 'm sorry , love , but … but she 's had to go away for a day or two . ’ |
| 22 | A photographer from Spanish Cosmo tries unsuccessfully to get him to go outside for a shoot . |
| 23 | The laibon goes off for a moment and returns wearing his cloak as the old lady produces some stools . |
| 24 | Nosey parkering round the piles of recently acquired books while her hostess goes off for a pee , she announces on Rainbow 's return — ‘ I was right . |
| 25 | ‘ It has been going on for a while — but not on the scale it is happening now . |
| 26 | This was going on for a couple of days , so I was getting worried and I took him to the prison doctor and he says , ‘ It might be with you breastfeeding , try him on the bottle . ’ |
| 27 | I lived in my house for going on for a year |
| 28 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 29 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 30 | Now I did not have the slightest intention of going down for a drink : all the drinking I was going to do was at the reception — if I ever got to the wedding . |