Example sentences of "go in for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | New York drug dealers seem to go in for sophisticated marketing ploys . |
| 2 | Edwina , the worldly mother-in-law who goes in for interior decoration . |
| 3 | In the afternoon , one or both of us goes in for extra teaching , discussions , etc. in the afternoon , and then we eat dinner at 6 . |
| 4 | He also goes in for creative self-plundering by way of rhetorical and dialectical self-parody . |
| 5 | I said , well she 's er she 's going in for medical secretary . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't go in for other stuff , ’ he said . |
| 7 | ‘ We should go in for wholesale demolition of buildings from the Sixties and Seventies . |
| 8 | I 've only known you a few days , Luke , and I do n't go in for casual sex . ’ |
| 9 | Though he kept a folder packed with suggestions for new volumes , he was keen to emphasise their serious didactic nature : ‘ We do n't go in for quick quack books . ’ |
| 10 | They are n't moody ; they do n't go in for sexual harassment |
| 11 | Enya does n't go in for intellectual analysis of her music much , but when I tell her these first reactions to her heart- breakingly beautiful new album , ‘ Shepherd Moons ’ , she lights up with a certain delighted relief that two years of studio work seems to be hitting the right target . |
| 12 | Parker did not go in for German beer . |
| 13 | Buck rabbits on their own seldom or never go in for serious digging . |
| 14 | They never went in for small talk ( ‘ Had a nice day at the office , darling ? ’ complete with obligatory peck . |
| 15 | When I first went in for forensic medicine he used me a lot and I got a great deal of experience I would n't otherwise have had because he was never too proud to ask for a specialist opinion . |
| 16 | Incidentally , it does n't include the disposal of Smithmark We 've also er we 've also gone in for other cost reduction exercises , for instance at er Dalton with a review of warehousing and distribution er , we should save about a million pounds in a full year and we 've been ramming home to our chief executives the need for annual payroll reviews to be geared to the profitability of the company rather than t rather than to the rate of inflation er , or even , er in , even the market place . |
| 17 | The arts community has always gone in for manic attention-seeking , of course — the oxygen of publicity ( to borrow a phrase ) being crucial to its survival . |