Example sentences of "go for the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But you ca n't be generous , you have to go for the best person for the job . |
| 2 | Not only do you need to know where to go for the best prices , but you need information on when shops open and how to get there . |
| 3 | If only … if only … if only there could be some way of reaching agreement , some way of reassuring each player that the other can be trusted not to go for the selfish jackpot , some way of policing the agreement . |
| 4 | If that question is applied to the hard track arid gets a positive answer then it is no longer enough to go for the easy choice . |
| 5 | Why was it everyone seemed to go for the easy way out ? |
| 6 | ‘ Not sure , really , though the little ones tend to go for the easy stuff . |
| 7 | If the child does n't want to go for the first test or even the second test , it is their right . ’ |
| 8 | However erm if if you as a panel are one minded to go for the new settlement option and two , er minded to make a ren recommendation about particular geographical locations or sectors , erm I for one would be very concerned that this would be done on the basis of of insufficient technical erm information . |
| 9 | Mayson was denied his hat-trick by good ‘ keeping and twice Smyth was through , only to go for the unselfish option when perhaps a shot would have been better . |
| 10 | The next hurdle for Petrochemicals will be to go for the highest level Q1 Gold award which will involve another step up in performance . |
| 11 | And as I started to go for the third man , I heard the sound of police whistles , and then two policemen arrived with the woman , and the third thug ran for it . |
| 12 | Best to go for the well-behaved species like O. adenophylla , with its pinkish lilac flowers , which are sometimes a rich magenta . |
| 13 | Dannii was the famous sister but Hardy yet again decided to go for the older girl . |
| 14 | Though physically a lightly built rugby player , he never hesitated to go for the top league and would be bounced and shaken regularly . |
| 15 | When the first contestant to go for the top prize , Marine Captain Richard MacCutchin who , oddly , specialized in haute cuisine , pulled it off by describing the ingredients of a royal banquet given by George VI to the president of France , three-quarters of American television sets were tuned in to watch him wrestle for the answers . |
| 16 | The mites tend to go for the smaller workers , probably because of their safer and passively fed lifestyle . |
| 17 | Choukeir will now decide whether to go for the French equivalent of an appeal ; a cancellation in the Supreme Court . |
| 18 | To go for the lapidary effect as such is sterile ; one tries for the lapidary because , if achieved , it is a guarantee of the verity of one 's feeling — Christian or non-Christian , as the case may be . |
| 19 | Let's , let's just put it here , A minus B times A minus B. Now it 's tempting to go for the easier ones in it as you did , so we 'll do the A squared , okay that 's no problem . |
| 20 | The men , who are interested in cash , are more liable to go for the big wood . |
| 21 | Heinzer , the Mister Nice of the Swiss Team , exploiting an avowed intent to turn Mister Ugly — ‘ I want to go for the big wins ’ — won the first race . |
| 22 | They 've been through rehearsals and are ready to go for the big money . |
| 23 | They 've been through rehearsals and are ready to go for the big money . |
| 24 | You 've got to go for the big stuff . |
| 25 | Universities are ready to go for the big time and exploit their earning capacity in a way they have n't in the past . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've been trying to go for the last half-hour , ’ he whispered , ‘ but you wo n't let go of my neck ! ’ |
| 27 | he 's he 's er , she 's goes for the rich guys you see . |
| 28 | Left : With psychological jammed knots in place , the author goes for the first ring on Renaissance ( E2/3 5c ) , Cross Hill , Adrspatch ( photo Graeme Ettle ) . |
| 29 | A bookshop should be a familiar place , somewhere where one goes for the sheer love of books , for the smell and feel of them , for the companionship of others who share the joy of touching , holding , reading and learning . |
| 30 | But here 's Rozario Gemmell Black Pearce is up in support but he goes for the long ball in and Hill met it first . |