Example sentences of "go for the [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still it may be unfashionable to go for the majority anyway . |
| 2 | I just did n't quite judge it right , so I decided to go for the hole rather than ipe the team out ! |
| 3 | Yes , it 's very hard because you get to that stage where you know you can only really push forward for so long , then when it you know , the whistle looms near , you try and you know , you 're just going to go for the result really , and keep it you know , a clean sheet and just get a point out of the game . |
| 4 | No book can do in two hours what any club 's teaching professional can do in two minutes , and that , perhaps surprisingly , goes for the video too . |
| 5 | And that , of course , goes for the jacket too . |
| 6 | ‘ Criticising my age is like a footballer going for the man rather than the ball . |
| 7 | Well if Vicky 's in hospital she said they 're going for the day there . |
| 8 | Arms salesman ; okay the Avenger the Equaliser the Total Fucking Nutter went for the legs too but still , and the editor spiked , and the rapist-lenient judge raped and the pornographer poisoned and stroked and the man who was so callous about the bloodshed in the Iran/Iraq war forced to watch his penned animals die like cattle like soldiers like cattle and then bled to death in his own private fountains of blood and the businessman who put profits before safety and not only helped kill a thousand people but then tried to get out of paying the survivors and dependants any compensation gets his own gas explosion — blevey is the technical term apparently — and fuck me whoever he is ( assuming he is a he ) , he 's got a sense of humour or at least irony why he 's produced what 's almost a snuff video effectively a snuff video if you mean brain-death anyway it 's the closest anyone will admit to ever having seen or found one even the Obscene Pubs Squad who 've been looking for years but although everybody assumes they exist nobody 's ever seen one until old gorilla man comes along and just makes his own , specifically to warn off any other porn merchants thinking of dealing in snuff ! |
| 9 | The same went for the glass underfoot ; another half-metre of water lay underneath the transparent slabs which made up the floor , gurgling under the scratched surface and around the slaty pedestals supporting the columns above . |
| 10 | On past records , most waverers go for the challenger rather than the one who holds power . |
| 11 | Yeah if you 're not sure you should go for the C then yeah |