Example sentences of "go [adv] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't notice you laughing when I have to go away for the night . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He had hidden it , thinking it would come in useful if he persuaded any girls to go away for the weekend with him . |
| 4 | Jean Parmiter sent her apologies for being unable to teach as arranged ; she and her husband had had to go away for the weekend . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And that was for them going just for the day . |
| 9 | He must , if he is going away for the winter , turn off the water and empty the boiler . |
| 10 | Sorry , old boy , going away for the weekend . ’ |
| 11 | I sha n't be there , gone out , going away for the weekend . |
| 12 | And then you 're going away for the weekend ? |
| 13 | ‘ Going away for the week-end , are you , love ? ’ she said . |
| 14 | Oh , must be Friday then , I knew they were going away for the week , weekend |
| 15 | It 's hard to imagine UI going elsewhere for the stuff . |
| 16 | ‘ You 'd make them a lot happier if you 'd start singing again , ’ Candy returned , going unerringly for the jugular . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ! ’ |
| 20 | Not Adam Burns , though — oh no , he had to go straight for the jugular . |
| 21 | Last night angry shareholders called on the Deanses to go now for the good of the 117-year-old club . |
| 22 | ‘ I hope everything goes well for the wedding . |
| 23 | We ca n't just nip on a coach and go somewhere for the day . |
| 24 | Notice that what is being passed on is partly pure risk — the chance that , despite the manager 's very best endeavours , things will go badly for the firm . |
| 25 | And I went right for the flag . |
| 26 | Yet nothing had gone right for the crusade . |
| 27 | WHERE DID it all go right for The Orb ? |
| 28 | Robbie and the dog had just returned from their stroll and she was about to lock up and go below for the night when a sound from the towpath caught her attention . |
| 29 | If you go away for the weekend during the winter , leave the central heating on the minimum thermostat setting , with the programmer set to 24-hour operation and remove or prop open the loft hatch . |
| 30 | And later when I saw Paul , I said Paul if you go away for the weekend , if you tell me , I can put your milk in my fridge . |