Example sentences of "went [adv prt] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Small groups went in for spasmodic cattle thieving with familiar equipment and familiar methods , including blackmail . |
| 2 | Instead they went in for archaic exclamations such as ‘ Botheration ! ’ or made up their own : ‘ Slitherkins ! ’ |
| 3 | They never went in for small talk ( ‘ Had a nice day at the office , darling ? ’ complete with obligatory peck . |
| 4 | When I first went in for forensic medicine he used me a lot and I got a great deal of experience I would n't otherwise have had because he was never too proud to ask for a specialist opinion . |
| 5 | No fool , Berenson went in for finding ‘ Isabellas ’ ; Mrs Gardner fancied herself as America 's answer to Isabella d'Este , the great Renaissance art collector . |
| 6 | But it was Beckett who invented bedsit absurdism , and occasionally went in for theatrical fourth-wall busting ( ‘ What is there to keep us here ? ’ |
| 7 | Whilst the FADS of old went in for five-man random obscurity and ‘ playing bizarre rhythms as fast as possible ’ , their forthcoming album boasts structure , recurring themes and even the odd polished pop song . |
| 8 | In Cambridge she quickly established herself as a cult figure of mysterious portent : she claimed to be in love with her brother , whom nobody had ever seen , and went in for gnomic utterances and baroque clutter . |
| 9 | Others went off for extended periods as migrant ( dekasegi ) workers or severed their ties with the land altogether . |
| 10 | Alan came back most weekends , and they went out for long drives in his father 's car . |
| 11 | On 11 May , an order went out for German refugees to remain in their houses . |
| 12 | The Civilization Society more deliberately went out for bipartisan support and one result was that the six Conservative MPs who belonged to only one antislavery body chose to give their support to it . |