Example sentences of "go [adv prt] for [adj] [noun pl] " 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 | Corinthian Geometric goes in for small vessels of very high technical quality , simply and elegantly decorated . |
4 | We never seem to be going in for young players from lower divisions anymore . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | ‘ She was going off for short stays at the Home , and then every weekend to give me a break . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | ‘ We are not a national daily ; we do not go in for moral crusades . ’ |
10 | But the troops will only go in for humanitarian reasons including the protection of supplies . |
11 | I do n't go in for serious boyfriends . |
12 | Anyway , I do n't go in for sharp manoeuvres much myself . |
13 | ‘ It 's just that I do n't go in for casual encounters . ’ |
14 | ‘ But we do n't go in for top models , ’ she said . |
15 | ‘ I do n't normally go in for public displays of affection , ’ he murmured , ‘ but you 're irresistible . |
16 | ‘ I do n't normally go in for public displays of affection either , ’ she murmured impulsively , forgetting her uneasiness , ‘ but even with sand on your face you 're … ’ |
17 | He mumbles when I go in for specific points , he puts an accent on , but I think he 's trying to tell me Hess is dead . |
18 | Research in child development suggests that there appear to be no differences between male and female humour , at least until school age , where boys go in for practical jokes more than girls . |
19 | We also learnt that one can integrate the interests of motorists by using bypasses to take through traffic away , and go in for traffic-calming measures which work . |
20 | Small groups went in for spasmodic cattle thieving with familiar equipment and familiar methods , including blackmail . |
21 | Instead they went in for archaic exclamations such as ‘ Botheration ! ’ or made up their own : ‘ Slitherkins ! ’ |
22 | In Cambridge she quickly established herself as a cult figure of mysterious portent : she claimed to be in love with her brother , whom nobody had ever seen , and went in for gnomic utterances and baroque clutter . |
23 | ‘ Diana is an Uptown girl who has never gone in for downtown men , ’ observes Rory Scott . |
24 | Clients who have gone in for Public Issues often rue the day they chose to sell through a licensed dealer . |
25 | That 's where they go through for new words ! |
26 | Others went off for extended periods as migrant ( dekasegi ) workers or severed their ties with the land altogether . |
27 | Alan came back most weekends , and they went out for long drives in his father 's car . |
28 | On 11 May , an order went out for German refugees to remain in their houses . |
29 | Shout , they 'd shout something but er well since we 've been living up here , my mother used to give , the man used to come for the order for the grocery , the baker used to come round , the milk used to come round , they all used to come round at she 'd ha she did n't have go out for heavy loads of stuff to bring in it was all delivered , but when they started some new technique of er of ordering by computer , it 's going to come back to square one again you know , they 'll be delivering stuff in the same jolly old way hey . |
30 | ‘ How many times have you gone out for romantic dinners with women ? ’ |