Example sentences of "[noun] go [adv] for " in BNC.
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1 | Last night angry shareholders called on the Deanses to go now for the good of the 117-year-old club . |
2 | Oddly , perhaps ominously , the war has in many respects gone better for Israel to date than for any other single party ( with the possible exception of CNN ) . ’ |
3 | At Magdalen Bridge , Dennis went ashore for more champagne , which passed from hand to hand as we negotiated the lower reaches of the river . |
4 | Doogie went straight for Shifty-Eyes ' face with his forehead , launching himself like an American footballer going over the opposition for a touchdown . |
5 | ‘ Wetherby goes downstairs for bread and cheese , and fails to reappear . |
6 | Leslie Crowther goes home for Christmas |
7 | Hall , in fact , might well have won in straight games , as he led 9-6 in the opening game and then missed four successive smashes to allow Baddeley to go ahead for the first time at 10-9 . |
8 | Hall , in fact , might well have won in straight games , as he led 9-6 in the opening game and then missed four successive smashes to allow Baddeley to go ahead for the first time at 10-9 . |
9 | The girls looked at me knowingly while the boss went behind for the stuff , and when they said , ‘ Ten pence , please ’ they turned to me . |
10 | All the general SVQ tutors , and the SVQ co-ordinator went away for a three-day residential to develop the programme . |
11 | But although he had mustered a large army the siege went badly for him . |
12 | The opening ‘ The Basement ’ is most disturbing , Blood explaining what can happen when your parents go away for a few months and leave you with your crippled sister : ‘ It started out with spankings with the neighbour looking on/She paid her daughter 's boyfriend who would whip me all night long … ’ |
13 | The opening ‘ The Basement ’ is most disturbing , Blood explaining what can happen when your parents go away for a few months and leave you with your crippled sister : ‘ It started out with spankings with the neighbour looking on/She paid her daughter 's boyfriend who would whip me all night long … ’ |
14 | Matters went awry for the Allies from the start . |
15 | The battle went well for Magnus initially : the Chaos forces were scattered and their generals unable to prevent wholesale slaughter . |
16 | TV STAR Leslie Crowther went home for Christmas dinner yesterday two months after a road crash left him in a coma . |
17 | Paul knew that his plans were in God 's hands , and that certainty comes across very clearly in the way that he sets out his desire to go forward for Jesus . |
18 | She had no need to go further for , with one eyebrow going aloft , ‘ With a strange man about the place ? ’ |
19 | The opening campaigns of the war went well for the French . |
20 | After 1360 and more particularly in the 1370s the war went badly for England . |
21 | Because something has come to my mind only during the past few days , when I learnt that the Gipsy Working Party by five votes to four had recommended that the Rockhill site go forward for consultation . |
22 | More men were struck in the Dutch battalions , but most balls went overhead for the French gunners were firing a fraction too high . |
23 | The Collector went upstairs for his pistols . |
24 | But the critical approach to knowledge goes further for , through it , the individual is even freed from uncritical acceptance of the intellectual view of the world . |
25 | IRELAND is to hold a referendum on women 's rights to go abroad for abortions and to obtain information in Ireland before doing so . |
26 | These messages are often to do with guilt : ‘ I do n't deserve things to go well for me . ’ |
27 | Very few part-time farmers went away for a holiday so this should not be difficult . |
28 | Things went well for me , though . |
29 | ‘ I hope things go well for all of you , ’ I added ( with uncharacteristic generosity ) , ‘ and thank you for the present . |
30 | ‘ If things go well for me in the Football League during January I 'm sure I will be back in the green shirt . ’ |