Example sentences of "went in 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 | Groups went in for all kinds of sponsored walks , knit-ins , beard-shavings , and even silence . |
| 5 | But it was before they went in for all the cryptonyms and digraphs and five-letter codes because that 's what computers like … ’ |
| 6 | I missed several classes because they put me up in , for instance I , when I came up from the infants to the big school I missed the first standard and they put me into standard two and I went from two , three , four , five , six , seven and seven and I was only eleven , you see , so I did pretty well and then the Headmaster came to my parents and said , why do n't you let her go in for a scholarship to Stowmarket Secondary and so I went in for that and er there was one other girl went as well , there were two of us and erm , and of course we only heard during the summer break and er we passed . |
| 7 | Maybe if I was on Sandøya when winter came , when the sun went in for two or three months , when all the water froze , when ice covered the ground and fishing was a risky business of frozen fingers and ears , on water in which survival was measured in seconds , I would be less romantic about it . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But it was Beckett who invented bedsit absurdism , and occasionally went in for theatrical fourth-wall busting ( ‘ What is there to keep us here ? ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In the last week , Italian politics became even more chaotic than usual , and Germany went in for some ‘ neo-Nazism ’ . |
| 13 | He went in for some pretty awful names , Robbie decided — first Sybil , now Petula . |
| 14 | But I did n't give up , I went in for another and I came third again , and then I gave up , so that was the end of that . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Do you think it would be a good idea if there were more women that went in for these areas ? |
| 17 | Well it 'd probably be the June or July before I went in for this exam , which they did n't hold very frequently and er then I had to pass this exam and that I could leave school in the August , Bank Holiday . |