Example sentences of "they go [adv] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | but I , I do n't know if you want a tape , there 's a carry film on , erm , it 's er , it 's a family and they go away for Christmas , you know , and er the little lad gets left by his self Jim |
| 2 | ‘ Loads of women still expect a man to pay when they go out for dinner . |
| 3 | They were entitled to eat after the last sitting in the central dining car , Emil said , rinsing glasses , but usually they went only for dinner , if then ; I could see why , as after the sandwiches on that first day we ate the all-too-few left-over portions of the Lucullan lunch we had served . |
| 4 | Afterwards , he added , they went out for lunch together . |
| 5 | ‘ After they gave up twelve-furrow work — when the machines came in — they went in for flat-work , wide stetches , even on the heaviest land , of anything up to eighteen yards . |
| 6 | They went in for warmth . |
| 7 | But typewriters we had problems with because , if they went in for repair , you never got them back from the Ordinance Core , and so at one place in Tunbridge Wells we handed a typewriter in and because the army were allowed to buy greaseproof paper , we bought a lot of greaseproof paper which came in the package of a new typewriter . |
| 8 | They went in for half-time one up and within minutes of coming out were two up … with top scorer Craig Maskell raising the roof … |