Example sentences of "go [adv] [to-vb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smaller and more volatile businesses do not have this luxury and often find themselves unable to attract the best people , and therefore have to go outside to recruit for senior management . |
| 2 | The best place to go like to go for a wee dance , the only place you could go for a wee da , that 's the . |
| 3 | If it was n't the Russians , it was the British who wanted to interfere ; so I said , I am going away to wait for the day when once again an Austrian can decide when an Austrian may conduct music in his own country . |
| 4 | That was below the belt , but instead of stopping there while she was still in one piece , she drove on in a high , hectoring voice , ‘ Do n't you think your daughter deserves a little rest instead of going home to slave for you after she 's been working all week ? ’ |
| 5 | Illness forced his resignation , but having recovered his health , Cilby resumed work , founding missions in Birmingham , Somerset and Cornwall before going abroad to work for the deaf and dumb in South Africa and in the West Indies . |
| 6 | Far better , it seemed to me , was the simple strategy of waiting for nature to come to you , rather than going clumsily to look for it . |
| 7 | There was no doubting that this young relative of his made a fine figure of a man , he thought , as he announced that he was going upstairs to change for dinner . |
| 8 | The lights were dim , and the room was dark ; her brother did not respond to her cries , so the girl went inside to look for him . |
| 9 | People go elsewhere to look for houses . |
| 10 | I went outside to look for her . |
| 11 | I put him back in his stable again , complete with an enormous amount of bandaging and went home to wait for my vet to phone with the results of the x-rays . |
| 12 | Gone early to hunt for tent , etc . |
| 13 | Well I went to , erm they would n't let me go to work on the aircraft so I left and I went to work and the Walsall Electric Company , it was within Walsall and I was there when V E day happened and er a pal of mine said he knew where I could get this job and oh it was travelling about which I enjoyed and er I , I went then to work for Elwells I was there until I went in the army , but they were very much heavy transport and in those days the opencast mining started happening as well and we were taking diggers about bulldozers and tractors , scrapers for the opencast mining and I remember , in the bad winter of forty-seven , they , they took up a big part of Park , trees and everything and they never found a bit of coal and yet when started levelling off at Darleston , for Bentley Garden Village as it was then called , er they were getting coal out and people were going up with prams , barrows and everything and fetching it all out it was only being levelled for building work , and fetching coal , natural coal off Bentley Common the erm I 've wandering off away from the airport a bit have n't I ? |
| 14 | Actors go there to rest for the summer and then try to get work for the autumn when the little theatres open again . |
| 15 | Nell had said she would meet me this Sunday morning in the coffee shop in the Great Hall , and had told me that the crews often went there to wait for train time . |
| 16 | He explained that he went there to look for me . |
| 17 | ‘ That is not your business ! ’ she shouted and went upstairs to dress for the evening . |
| 18 | " When he went upstairs to change for dinner , Lady Agatha and Fidelma looked at each other . " |