Example sentences of "go for a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our redfaced friend , said the policeman , chose the wrong time in the wrong town to go for a drunken walkabout in the road . |
| 2 | But it was actually hearing Duane Allman that made me want to go for a powerful kind of electric sound . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's a long way to go for a 45-minute service and a reception — even if you 're not 92 years old , ’ said one of her aides , who insisted that her absence was not intended as a snub . |
| 4 | Heavy rain stopped everyone after 18 laps , so it was back to go for a second start . |
| 5 | It is a better strategy to create resources for industrialization to go for a rich peasant economy than to go for a middle peasant economy . |
| 6 | They have to go for a dental inspection |
| 7 | The third option is to go for a strategic exceptions policy in the structure plan and obviously this is what er the borough considered considers is appropriate . |
| 8 | The harmony between Europe 's big six — VW , Fiat , PSA , Renault , GM and Ford — looks more likely than ever to persuade the commission to go for a transitional period longer than three to five years . |
| 9 | Marsh was dismissed with three minutes to go for a late challenge on Dimitr Radchenko , scorer of Spartak 's first goal , in their 2–0 success which made it 6–2 on aggregate . |
| 10 | If you decide to go for a low-voltage set-up , work out how many lights you need and where they will be sited , so you can buy enough cable to connect them all up . |
| 11 | With VAT on fuel bills scheduled for 1994 and 1995 , the strategy is beginning to shape up as one aimed at allowing the Conservatives to go for a tax-cutting Budget in 1996 or 1997 in an attempt to win back ground in the run-up to the election . |
| 12 | Would not it be far better to seek an effective non-proliferation treaty than to go for a new generation of nuclear weapons ? |
| 13 | Far better to go for a new IDE drive , or , probably cheaper , invest in some extra RAM and slap a big software cache onto the machine . |
| 14 | The best place to go like to go for a wee dance , the only place you could go for a wee da , that 's the . |
| 15 | we wanted to go for a wee meal erm afterwards and it meant er made an awfully late night with the , having the baby-sitter , got Christine next door coming in to baby-sit . |
| 16 | The princess , patron of the Northern Ballet , told stars of the company 's production they had been brave to go for a modern version of the Tchaikovsky classic . |
| 17 | Once again , you have an opportunity to go for a perfect ton , providing you have produced the goods during the first two days play . |
| 18 | Erm again I , I ca n't help but s er er getting slightly digressed but it is rather interesting that John Major this year decided to go for a general election before the local elections . |
| 19 | So for all those reasons , I think my colleagues may be more inclined to go for a cautious approach that 's enshrined in the Peyton approach , than they were back in er June . |
| 20 | It is a better strategy to create resources for industrialization to go for a rich peasant economy than to go for a middle peasant economy . |
| 21 | But if , if , if that beginning , you know , i if you 're going to go for a rich peasant economy , you 've got ta convince them that it 's , it 's their advantage and it 's gon na last . |
| 22 | A nicely placed observer speculates that if Univel Inc , the Novell Inc/Unix System Labs joint venture , does well with the Destiny desktop operating system , that that will convince Novell chief Ray Noorda to go for a bigger piece of USL : he already owns the largest outside share . |
| 23 | ‘ She 's wanted to go for a long time , ’ said Anne , nodding . |
| 24 | She would have liked to go for a long walk past the charming wedding-cake buildings that lined the promenade , but although it was only teatime , it was already too dark to see anything . |
| 25 | An electrical equipment manufacturer , for example , might decide to go for a fully-fitted kitchen including all their own appliances as the top prize , with a small number of runners-up receiving a toaster or sandwich maker . |
| 26 | The kind of people who 'll order a guitar like this Manson will argue in reply that : ( a ) a production guitar will never have a handmade guitar 's combination of all the right bits with that extra edge of quality ; ( b ) it 's obviously better to go for a traditional design than some mutant battle-axe because you 're less likely to get sick of it and they 're a lot easier to customise further and there 's nothing better at fitting into virtually any style of music than an S-type or a T-type ; and ( c ) it 's their money , anyway . |
| 27 | hello , hi Matt , alright I did an absolute steamer , excellent , did it really well , it only took me an hour and ten minutes it took me an hour and ten minutes I have n't no I knew , I knew vaguely , knew vaguely enough I mean I have , perfect question came up just describe er the youths portrayed in the er book and there was only two , there was the main character who I got most of the stuff from , from what Katie told me and the rest was the other bloke was called Carston Corsalius and basically all we knew about him was he fancied this other one , the main character , and erm was a journalist , that was it ah put it in nine times , no , I , I do n't know what it means eh , er Matt did n't come in , er a bit of a shame could n't no yeah , what did you really want ? or was that it ? yeah yeah , fixed , flexible and managed yes fixed , flex , fixed , flexible and managed oh right yeah , yeah , yeah , yeah , do n't they and er advantages and disadvantages of indirect tax was , untax and direct was the other one , you know it indirect taxes yes yeah I ca n't remember , I really ca n't remember , like a colour yeah , you wan na know both of those , I 'd , I , I could n't remember all of demand pull , I put down the wage , price , wage spiral or the waged price spiral , that 's a stinker that is , that 's a beauty , I put that down , its ' a beaut , that 's my best diagram and I did three diagram' in four essays I hate doing diagram' yeah he 's here now , we 're about to go for a quick drink like , he says he 's been revising all day so erm , and I shall , I shall brief him , just as you would expect , I shall tell him all he needs I do n't , I do n't want to leave him in the lurch okay see you in French yeah , bye , bye , bye |
| 28 | That gave her time to go for a quick wash . |
| 29 | Having always liked the idea of living in the country , Geoff decided to go for a country-style kitchen . |
| 30 | ‘ You might be able to go for a short walk in a couple of days , ’ said Joe . |