Example sentences of "go [adv] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing goes right for Walter ; his father dies early , soon followed by his mother , a rigid , religious woman , who treats the boy harshly but teaches him good conduct , to write and to hold down a job in a sweet factory where he is patronised by his superiors and ridiculed by his fellow workers . |
| 2 | At the outset he seems to have been on congenial terms with Palmerston , but their relationship went sour during Hall 's two-and-a-half years at the Office of Works : and almost from the date of Hall 's appointment , events started to go badly for Pennethorne . |
| 3 | ‘ Wetherby goes downstairs for bread and cheese , and fails to reappear . |
| 4 | Unable to go away for weekends or holidays , she never goes out at night to dinner parties , discos or evening classes . |
| 5 | Is there any point in trying to go away for Easter now if there 's so much going on ? |
| 6 | Leslie Crowther goes home for Christmas |
| 7 | On the day he was killed he 'd left work to go home for lunch as usual . |
| 8 | And anyway , I do n't want to go home for vacations . " |
| 9 | I was able to go home for Christmas with my new friends . |
| 10 | They took turns to walk around inside and sit on the bunks and then George left to go home for tea . |
| 11 | He returned to his boy and the two of them continued with their play until it was time to go home for tea . |
| 12 | It should be stressed that even when the war was going badly for England , the partnership secured profits , which remained in England , even although the gains ultimately passed to other hands than those of the partners . |
| 13 | It is enough for her to know that things are going badly for Mrs Thatcher and the Tory party ; the details of the Westland affair do not engage her interest . |
| 14 | if the war was going badly for NATO , and the USSR was already using nuclear weapons , the West would turn to the cruise missiles to strike back at the Warsaw Pact . |
| 15 | More of a knock at the back door than a storming of the castle gate perhaps , but something is going right for Jon Solly . |
| 16 | Chelsea did n't deserve maximum points but very little is going right for Leeds this season . |
| 17 | Six weeks ago , life was going swimmingly for holders of BM Group . |
| 18 | We 've been going together for ages . |
| 19 | In Presbyterianism it will be by attendance at the quarterly communions , and in Anglican Churches with a central or evangelical tradition the most accurate measure will be the numbers at Easter and possibly Christmas communion , although in some churches these two seasons will present difficulties if there is a tradition of members going away for holidays or to visit relatives at these times . |
| 20 | But er there were so many open cars and we had an upholsterer who er made the hoods and repaired the hoods and upholstery and er we even made things out of the old scraps of these er just to , we made bags for , for carrying trade plates for er people going away for cars . |
| 21 | Cos our Lianne said to me on Thursday mother I 'm only going away for week . |
| 22 | On the other hand , Type II systems by allowing patients to seek treatment anywhere , may avoid inequalities resulting from Districts having different priorities , since patients can override those local priorities by going elsewhere for treatment . |
| 23 | Nails slept at the stables almost every night , apparently going home for breakfast . |
| 24 | Nails was generally asleep not long after ten , preferring to get up when the sun did , take Firelight out and clean up her stable and do his running practice before going home for breakfast . |
| 25 | About half of the pupils in maintained schools take school meals , with the rest bringing their own food or making other arrangements ( mostly going home for lunch ) . |
| 26 | The Direktor stopped going home for lunch . |
| 27 | I wo n't be going home for lunch next week , or the rest of this week . |
| 28 | He had talked of going home for years ; yet excuses came up for delaying till next year and the year after . |
| 29 | I wo n't be going home for lunchtimes . |
| 30 | He had n't said anything about going home for tea . |