Example sentences of "go in for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I voted for this government because they said they were n't going to go in for that sort of rubbish . |
| 2 | So I , I mean , I 've got to go in for that . |
| 3 | It was typical of Benjamin James , as it happens , to go in for such a touch of harmless sycophancy to please his friend the vicar ; he had very soon become , as we might have guessed , a respectable pillar of the Curry Rivel establishment . |
| 4 | At home he decided to go in for wholesale enclosures , encouraged his tenants to take long leases by reducing their rents , and instructed them in modern scientific methods . |
| 5 | Yes , Americans , erm I have the impression , they 're being rather slow to go in for this sort of Federal legislation . |
| 6 | In that way , we would increase national expenditure on training and the Secretary of State would not have to go in for these dictatorial measures . |
| 7 | New York drug dealers seem to go in for sophisticated marketing ploys . |
| 8 | ‘ The bright child who might possibly get nine GCSEs is going to be pushed to go in for more and more . |
| 9 | Was there ever a time when you had to go in for more drastic measures ? |
| 10 | There was a mini-rebellion about that just after the Police Strike and then they allowed policemen to go in for half an hour 's and eat breakfast . |
| 11 | Edwina , the worldly mother-in-law who goes in for interior decoration . |
| 12 | Corinthian Geometric goes in for small vessels of very high technical quality , simply and elegantly decorated . |
| 13 | In the afternoon , one or both of us goes in for extra teaching , discussions , etc. in the afternoon , and then we eat dinner at 6 . |
| 14 | But if the Section Sergeant goes in for any necessary purpose , the Inspector comes in , he is reported and gets a severe reprimand from his superiors for idling his time in the Station . |
| 15 | He also goes in for creative self-plundering by way of rhetorical and dialectical self-parody . |
| 16 | We never seem to be going in for young players from lower divisions anymore . |
| 17 | I do n't think I 'll be going in for one of those prolonged periods of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or whatever it 's called . |
| 18 | so I 'm going in for twelve and finish for eight |
| 19 | He 's not going in for any pretending over a baby unless he comes in for a share of the cash , bloody ridiculous it is . |
| 20 | He 's going in for another one next month , but I doubt if that will work either . |
| 21 | " I reckon you 're very wise not going in for this lark , " Joanne said , shifting the mound of her body uncomfortably under the bedclothes . |
| 22 | ‘ There — must be some other way , ’ she voiced her thoughts out loud , and , as the thought occurred , ‘ I can tell Travis that I do n't want to see him again without going in for this — this charade . ’ |
| 23 | So in that sense , the build the , the equities have kept pace , but if you think in the short term , you 'll always be out of , out of order with shares , if you 're thinking of going in for three or four years , you you 're likely to get your fingers burnt . |
| 24 | Just another form of the takeaway service some blacks are going in for these days . |
| 25 | Or they 're pun they 're pouring money into the countryside now forty five million , he 's going in for these developments er to create a better countryside just announced this week . |
| 26 | I said , well she 's er she 's going in for medical secretary . |
| 27 | ‘ And she did n't go in for violent amateur dramatics with a bunch of friends ? ’ |
| 28 | ‘ We are not a national daily ; we do not go in for moral crusades . ’ |
| 29 | I do n't think there 's a very great deal in the way of er lighting fittings one can talk about erm in houses in Harlow , it 's er , there 's a , a distinct difference between the light , a lot , lot of architects in , in Harlow have lived in Harlow you see and they will go in for all the very latest type of lighting fittings erm and because they have er access to the books for the various er designers of lighting fittings er , generally though , they , the majority of the people in the town er have come from er London boroughs and erm they view the same kind of lighting fittings they 've always been used to . |
| 30 | But the non-conformists did n't go in for much decoration . |