Example sentences of "went in [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Walsh did not appear , but Cooper and Pilger went in as non-executive members of the Board . |
| 2 | We Zed-bombed the barriers and went in with shielded skimmers . |
| 3 | Small groups went in for spasmodic cattle thieving with familiar equipment and familiar methods , including blackmail . |
| 4 | Instead they went in for archaic exclamations such as ‘ Botheration ! ’ or made up their own : ‘ Slitherkins ! ’ |
| 5 | They never went in for small talk ( ‘ Had a nice day at the office , darling ? ’ complete with obligatory peck . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But it was Beckett who invented bedsit absurdism , and occasionally went in for theatrical fourth-wall busting ( ‘ What is there to keep us here ? ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |