Example sentences of "go in for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Corinthian Geometric goes in for small vessels of very high technical quality , simply and elegantly decorated . |
| 3 | We never seem to be going in for young players from lower divisions anymore . |
| 4 | Or they 're pun they 're pouring money into the countryside now forty five million , he 's going in for these developments er to create a better countryside just announced this week . |
| 5 | Just another form of the takeaway service some blacks are going in for these days . |
| 6 | ‘ We are not a national daily ; we do not go in for moral crusades . ’ |
| 7 | But the troops will only go in for humanitarian reasons including the protection of supplies . |
| 8 | I do n't go in for serious boyfriends . |
| 9 | Anyway , I do n't go in for sharp manoeuvres much myself . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's just that I do n't go in for casual encounters . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ But we do n't go in for top models , ’ she said . |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't normally go in for public displays of affection , ’ he murmured , ‘ but you 're irresistible . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 … ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Berkeley denies that we go in for such calculations in judging distances . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | You go in for three days and you have a big dose of drugs . |
| 19 | Small groups went in for spasmodic cattle thieving with familiar equipment and familiar methods , including blackmail . |
| 20 | Instead they went in for archaic exclamations such as ‘ Botheration ! ’ or made up their own : ‘ Slitherkins ! ’ |
| 21 | Groups went in for all kinds of sponsored walks , knit-ins , beard-shavings , and even silence . |
| 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 | Do you think it would be a good idea if there were more women that went in for these areas ? |
| 24 | ‘ Diana is an Uptown girl who has never gone in for downtown men , ’ observes Rory Scott . |
| 25 | Clients who have gone in for Public Issues often rue the day they chose to sell through a licensed dealer . |