Example sentences of "going for the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or would Eden think of the air marshals , and the children who had lost their parents in a blitz , and former warriors who had seen too much blood on a battlefield , and exercise a silent veto , by going for the second preference ? |
| 2 | They 've got to keep working and going for the second ball . |
| 3 | Courtship is not all smooth going for the young male . |
| 4 | Her anger kept her going for the best part of two days , but then Mick bumped into her and asked how Jack was , and she told him , in words of one syllable . |
| 5 | The Grand Union people , already very short of money , decided that there was little point at present in going for the wide gauge , especially as it was ( conveniently ) reported that traders preferred loading into narrow boats . |
| 6 | The market place can be confusing but Trader Horn picks his way through the mire Going for the grand tour . |
| 7 | they 're playing tonight to leave tomorrow clear for the internationals … the only Gloucester man going for the Grand Slam … is Mike Teague … he 's back in the England pack at twickenham |
| 8 | If in doubt , keep two provisional subjects going for the first half of the first term — and then drop the one that appeals to you the less . |
| 9 | The second storyline is going for the wider market , and some might argue , a little too near-the-knuckle for such an early evening show . |
| 10 | Compaq Computer Corp took the lead in the European portable personal computer market in the first quarter of 1993 according to Dataquest figures which give Compaq 22% by value and 17.5% by volume , and the manufacturer says that shipments in the period were up 89% on the first quarter of 1992 , growing four times the rate of the market , which expanded 21% — and those figures reveal the reason that Dell Computer Corp has stumbled badly in laptops and notebooks : buyers are going for the higher cost 80486-based machines that abound in Compaq 's line , while Dell 's product emphasises low-price 80386SX-based machines . |
| 11 | Erm you will also in going for the higher end of the range , er be prejudicing the urban regeneration objectives of those neighbouring districts . |
| 12 | A door into the hallway , a door beyond that , and Schmidt going for the french window that let on to the patio . |
| 13 | It 's heavy breathing — and heavy going for the French superstar , who looks to us dreadfully overweight , with a beer belly suggesting he indulged rather too much in the culinary delights of Mauritius . |
| 14 | Now what you were doing was , you got the top figure of available beds and you this time , I 'm only going for the this paper that is shown to me a an an an and produced some place in in your apartments and it says here , partly vacancies weekend in the first of August . |
| 15 | You 're always going for the safe line , no involvement and no chance of damage . |
| 16 | I 'm going for the full set . |
| 17 | This book seems to be based on the techniques I have long suspected some producers use to keep a discussion going for the full length of a programme whether there is anything in it or not , to keep up the emotional temperature even about unexciting things , and to emit statements which are just distorted enough to get people objecting , whether they are worth objecting to or not . |
| 18 | Little Polveir is going for the National treble , having already won the Scottish version in 1987 and the Seagram Grand National last season . |
| 19 | ‘ We will be going for the Scottish Cup , the Skol Cup , the Premier Division and the UEFA Cup . |
| 20 | Hearts and Aberdeen , who have six players between them in tonight 's starting 11 , have helped Roxburgh while one , the Edinburgh club , is going for the Scottish Cup and the other is involved in that tournament as well as the league championship . |
| 21 | Half my year 's gon na be gone , and I 'm sort of , going for the third year , and it 's really heavy . |
| 22 | In LBC 's case , for example , the LBC Crown FM is going for the upmarket listener , while the medium wave service , London Talkback Radio , is pitching for the tabloid market and the dedicated followers of phone-ins . |
| 23 | It is quite obvious that if all of you are going for the same niche in the marketplace , as is happening increasingly at present , then it will be a highly competitive situation where you will have to rely even more than usual on the superiority of your own skills or technology to bring you through . |
| 24 | Spurs play their possesion futba which looks good but is not at all dangerous — when they had chances for breaks they just kept passing the ball instead of going for the fast break . |
| 25 | ROTOR WING FLIGHT TEST Going for the big stuff |
| 26 | The Socialists have historically been better at going for the gut-level reaction . |