Example sentences of "they go [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | After dinner , it 's like , it gives them a taste of what it 's like they go over for odd |
| 2 | They go on for ever . |
| 3 | Of course not , they 've been elected for a period , they serve to the end of that period , whether they 're made redundant or not , so they go on for the four year term . |
| 4 | That 's where they go through for new words ! |
| 5 | They go in for querulous and disputatious argument . |
| 6 | They go in for the emotional point of view , and I thought it would help them see me in a fatherly light , giving him my own name . |
| 7 | So that 's probably why they go in for more of these courses things |
| 8 | They cut off their hands so that they go about for the rest of their lives with bleeding stumps . ’ |
| 9 | They go out for a meal . |
| 10 | ‘ Curry seems to be the first choice for many MPs when they go out for a meal , ’ says Peter Grove , publisher of Patak 's Real Curry Restaurant Guide . |
| 11 | If the child says , ‘ I dislike Auntie Kate ’ but seeks her company , holds her by the hand when they go out for a walk , and so on , we would conclude that he has not understood the word dislike . |
| 12 | ‘ Loads of women still expect a man to pay when they go out for dinner . |
| 13 | Jes paid her on Sunday and instead of telling us how they went round for her wages yesterday and he 'd already paid her , and she 'd gone to school with money in her car ! |
| 14 | They went on for some way in silence . |
| 15 | They went on for three hours before she fell asleep , exhausted but more relaxed than since her husband died . |
| 16 | They went back for chairs and then the laird , the factor , and the minister sat down weightily , like judges . |
| 17 | It might be needed if they went out for the day . |
| 18 | Afterwards , he added , they went out for lunch together . |
| 19 | Nick and Carrie were used to timing them now , fairly accurately : they went out for about half an hour and when they came back be was sitting quiet in the kitchen , reading the paper . |
| 20 | Alan came back most weekends , and they went out for long drives in his father 's car . |
| 21 | ‘ They went out for walks up to five times a day and he spoiled Champ rotten . |
| 22 | I 'll quickly rattle through the next one effectively nothing more has happened at Napier , they went off for their Christmas holidays about the fourth of November and came back about the nineteenth of January er , not quite as bad as that but nearly as I mean they 've even longer holidays than we 've got and we get a fortnight at Christmas and New Year |
| 23 | Instead they went in for archaic exclamations such as ‘ Botheration ! ’ or made up their own : ‘ Slitherkins ! ’ |
| 24 | But typewriters we had problems with because , if they went in for repair , you never got them back from the Ordinance Core , and so at one place in Tunbridge Wells we handed a typewriter in and because the army were allowed to buy greaseproof paper , we bought a lot of greaseproof paper which came in the package of a new typewriter . |
| 25 | ‘ After they gave up twelve-furrow work — when the machines came in — they went in for flat-work , wide stetches , even on the heaviest land , of anything up to eighteen yards . |
| 26 | They went in for warmth . |
| 27 | The cloth for their suits was cord ( corduroy ) , as I 've told you ; but sometimes they went in for a suit of heavy tweed — staple tweed it was called ; and at that time they made it as hard as a board . |
| 28 | But it was before they went in for all the cryptonyms and digraphs and five-letter codes because that 's what computers like … ’ |
| 29 | They went in for half-time one up and within minutes of coming out were two up … with top scorer Craig Maskell raising the roof … |