Example sentences of "go [adv] for [art] [noun] " 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 | Yes if she 's coming out you mean you do n't , you do n't have to do it all tonight she wan might want to be talking about erm her grading a lot so you ca n't expect her to do any work until she 's got that out of her system she might want to go on for an hour or so . |
| 5 | At first it was like leaning into a thick , inert sponge , and that seemed to go on for an age . |
| 6 | Started as they meant to go on for the holiday . |
| 7 | ‘ I — I just want to go below for a moment . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | You need the permission of the owner to go in for a title search so you 'd have to know the owner first . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | One of my other SCOTTISH OFFICE contacts has asked me to go in for a sandwich lunch on Wednesday ( 25th ) , which is kind . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | Like a car needs to go in for the M O T , you 've got ta |
| 17 | Chris , tall , lithe and manly , strips off and goes in for a swim in his panda-briefs . |
| 18 | Yeah , and if goes in for a pint he gives you a packet now . |
| 19 | A packet now , goes in for a pint . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | Her mother goes in for the bingo . |
| 22 | Nicky Cruz and his gang , the Mau Maus , decide to go along for the ride … . |
| 23 | Spike , of course , kept saying " He wants us to go down for a drink . " |
| 24 | I 'd say we 'll have to do more than that , I 'd say we 'll have to go down for a week . |
| 25 | Maurice was deserted , Maurice having been invited , as he quite often was , to go down for the day to Brighton . |
| 26 | I would like to go just for a trial . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | She wants to go away for a holiday , too . |
| 30 | 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 . ’ |