Example sentences of "he go for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's a very bright man , Michael Howard , but it 's quite clear that he 's much more concerned with grabbing the headlines and finding scapegoats , than with taking action through law that will actually improve the chance , both of preventing crime and of detecting crime , and then even more so , deterring people from re-offending , and it 's most distressing to see that when research showed that a particular non-custodial method of punishment is effective in perhaps fifty or seventy or eighty percent of cases , whereas prison is not , he goes for prison , he goes for picking on squatters , he goes for picking on the defendants right to silence so that we can see more people like er , jailed when they were innocent . |
| 2 | Preston was familiar with the works of St Augustine , or , at least , more familiar than the majority of seven-year-olds , from the teaching of Mother Bernard to whom he went for catechism once a week . |
| 3 | Wilkes was escorted from the pitch by police after sending off teenage winger Barkus who lashed out after being felled as he went for goal . |
| 4 | On June 18 , he collapsed and died in the arms of a fellow customer in one of the Stroud pubs where he went for company to chat quietly about cricket ( never in an egotistical way ) and for a drink to help him forget . |
| 5 | His parents thought he was selling raffle tickets , but first he went for swim with friends in the River Wye at Broomy Hill . |
| 6 | Yeah , he went for nose other day , |
| 7 | It was to the Carlton as well as the Whip 's Office that Robert Sanders went to hear the news and discuss political events , and it was to the Carlton too that he went for recreation when the business of the House was too tedious to be borne any longer . |
| 8 | He went for advice to a firm of solicitors . |