Example sentences of "go [adv prt] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also goes on for bloody ages . |
| 2 | At home he decided to go in for wholesale enclosures , encouraged his tenants to take long leases by reducing their rents , and instructed them in modern scientific methods . |
| 3 | New York drug dealers seem to go in for sophisticated marketing ploys . |
| 4 | Edwina , the worldly mother-in-law who goes in for interior decoration . |
| 5 | Corinthian Geometric goes in for small vessels of very high technical quality , simply and elegantly decorated . |
| 6 | In the afternoon , one or both of us goes in for extra teaching , discussions , etc. in the afternoon , and then we eat dinner at 6 . |
| 7 | He also goes in for creative self-plundering by way of rhetorical and dialectical self-parody . |
| 8 | All the happening was going on for other people miles away . |
| 9 | Is a search still going on for missing material ? |
| 10 | We never seem to be going in for young players from lower divisions anymore . |
| 11 | I said , well she 's er she 's going in for medical secretary . |
| 12 | As far as chartered accountant trainees are concerned , Mr Jones argues , ‘ you have all the aggravation of training them on high salaries and the disruption to a small office with their going off for long periods of study leave , and at the end you do n't keep them . |
| 13 | ‘ She was going off for short stays at the Home , and then every weekend to give me a break . |
| 14 | A medical model has a strict routine , whereas a social work model allows for more individual autonomy and choice in matters such as times of getting up , going to bed , and going out for independent activities , which might conflict with staff shifts and rotas . |
| 15 | Like all long-term coughers he had developed a noise-reducing technique , and all that could be heard was a chuck-chuck-chuck sound that would go on for long minutes at a time , gradually winding down like a clockwork drummer until every scrap of air was squeezed out of his poor concrete lungs . |
| 16 | Like a true professional , Floyd was determined the show would go on for New Year 's Eve at his pub , the Maltsters Arms . |
| 17 | ‘ We are not a national daily ; we do not go in for moral crusades . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't go in for other stuff , ’ he said . |
| 19 | But the troops will only go in for humanitarian reasons including the protection of supplies . |
| 20 | I do n't go in for serious boyfriends . |
| 21 | Anyway , I do n't go in for sharp manoeuvres much myself . |
| 22 | ‘ We should go in for wholesale demolition of buildings from the Sixties and Seventies . |
| 23 | I 've only known you a few days , Luke , and I do n't go in for casual sex . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ It 's just that I do n't go in for casual encounters . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ But we do n't go in for top models , ’ she said . |
| 26 | Though he kept a folder packed with suggestions for new volumes , he was keen to emphasise their serious didactic nature : ‘ We do n't go in for quick quack books . ’ |
| 27 | They are n't moody ; they do n't go in for sexual harassment |
| 28 | Enya does n't go in for intellectual analysis of her music much , but when I tell her these first reactions to her heart- breakingly beautiful new album , ‘ Shepherd Moons ’ , she lights up with a certain delighted relief that two years of studio work seems to be hitting the right target . |
| 29 | Parker did not go in for German beer . |
| 30 | ‘ I do n't normally go in for public displays of affection , ’ he murmured , ‘ but you 're irresistible . |