Example sentences of "to go [adv] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't notice you laughing when I have to go away for the night . |
| 2 | On one occasion she packed up her car as if about to go away for the weekend , then sauntered up the street , leading the press to believe she had gone to buy a packet of Polos . |
| 3 | He had hidden it , thinking it would come in useful if he persuaded any girls to go away for the weekend with him . |
| 4 | Jean Parmiter sent her apologies for being unable to teach as arranged ; she and her husband had had to go away for the weekend . |
| 5 | When he was at school , but he used to go home for the Christmas holidays and nobody saw him again till about March cos he was , he could n't even get to Rothbury he was snowed in . |
| 6 | As hard as Marshall try to convey the message of versatility in this type of combo , I defy anyone who plugs into it for the first time not to go straight for the overdrive sounds : ‘ If it 's a Marshall then it 's going to rock , whether it wants to or not ! ’ |
| 7 | Not Adam Burns , though — oh no , he had to go straight for the jugular . |
| 8 | Last night angry shareholders called on the Deanses to go now for the good of the 117-year-old club . |