Example sentences of "[vb past] [not/n't] go [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kenya has been so dependent on official aid and structural adjustment loans that its government dared not go in for countertrading — despite the fact that , like Brazil , it was surrounded by poor , debt-ridden neighbours . |
| 2 | Describing the American feature film , The Last Temptation of Christ , to which he awarded a certificate , as a challenging religious film he said that acontroversial scene : ‘ It indicated that Christ had sex , but it did not go on for 14 minutes . ’ |
| 3 | The boy , unlike the dog , knew that the mud did not go on for ever ; beyond the bridge , the disused railway embankment along which they were walking became built up , so that water ran off it . |
| 4 | Parker did not go in for German beer . |
| 5 | And when , to show what a good little wife I had become — Nonni thought that my aunts did not ‘ appreciate ’ me , meaning that they did not go in for endearments or tell me how pretty I looked — she pointed out , one Sunday lunchtime , how well I had starched the table napkins , Aunt Lilian said , ‘ But why ? |
| 6 | We were not at a party , he did not go in for brunettes , and I was very much his junior . |
| 7 | Even when I arrived back at Thornfield , I did not go in for a while . |
| 8 | So they did n't go out for exercise ? |
| 9 | And it was stew everyday if we did n't go out for dinner ! |
| 10 | I said I was n't cuttin' no-one 's throat , I did n't go in for it . |
| 11 | ‘ And she did n't go in for violent amateur dramatics with a bunch of friends ? ’ |
| 12 | How was she to explain that she did n't go in for this high-profile look ? |
| 13 | My family did n't go in for that sort of thing . |
| 14 | But the non-conformists did n't go in for much decoration . |
| 15 | er , but they did n't go in for food like er you 're talking about |
| 16 | Anyway , and it was all such a , a resounding success so I , I was regaled with all the details of what she , and in what she had indulged and er , she said she went in more for the pi er she did n't go in for erm aromatherapy and the reflexology and the facials and the manicures and things , she went in for loads of bicycling and exercising and er and steam baths and things . |