Example sentences of "go in for [adj] [noun] " 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 | New York drug dealers seem to go in for sophisticated marketing ploys . |
| 3 | Edwina , the worldly mother-in-law who goes in for interior decoration . |
| 4 | Corinthian Geometric goes in for small vessels of very high technical quality , simply and elegantly decorated . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He also goes in for creative self-plundering by way of rhetorical and dialectical self-parody . |
| 7 | We never seem to be going in for young players from lower divisions anymore . |
| 8 | I said , well she 's er she 's going in for medical secretary . |
| 9 | ‘ We are not a national daily ; we do not go in for moral crusades . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't go in for other stuff , ’ he said . |
| 11 | But the troops will only go in for humanitarian reasons including the protection of supplies . |
| 12 | I do n't go in for serious boyfriends . |
| 13 | Anyway , I do n't go in for sharp manoeuvres much myself . |
| 14 | ‘ We should go in for wholesale demolition of buildings from the Sixties and Seventies . |
| 15 | I 've only known you a few days , Luke , and I do n't go in for casual sex . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ It 's just that I do n't go in for casual encounters . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ But we do n't go in for top models , ’ she said . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | They are n't moody ; they do n't go in for sexual harassment |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Parker did not go in for German beer . |
| 22 | ‘ I do n't normally go in for public displays of affection , ’ he murmured , ‘ but you 're irresistible . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 … ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Buck rabbits on their own seldom or never go in for serious digging . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Small groups went in for spasmodic cattle thieving with familiar equipment and familiar methods , including blackmail . |
| 29 | Instead they went in for archaic exclamations such as ‘ Botheration ! ’ or made up their own : ‘ Slitherkins ! ’ |
| 30 | They never went in for small talk ( ‘ Had a nice day at the office , darling ? ’ complete with obligatory peck . |