Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone goes in for a little enhancement , one way or another . |
| 2 | Of course , everyone signs up for nearly everything , but then it 's all part of university life . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's just one of those dreams the urban yuppy like me goes in for , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Did you not tell her that everyone dresses up for Willi 's party ? |
| 5 | ‘ One can hardly appear wearing L-plates , but no-one stands up for their first performance of a great work saying : ‘ This is the definitive version . ’ |
| 6 | Afterwards I washes up for them . |
| 7 | Powerful stuff , which represents the sort of passionate writing that Mr Wright himself goes in for . |
| 8 | It 's the relationship between the client and the advertiser which goes on for the next two years . |
| 9 | I belong to a family which goes back for 14 centuries . |
| 10 | It is a situation which cries out for centralised resolution of the type the large commercial organisation can impose . |
| 11 | One point which cries out for consideration is this : do the Christian doctrines which Hegel has transposed into his own metaphysical key still mean the same ? |
| 12 | ‘ I believe that it is quite wrong that you should refuse this reasonable request and I regret to say that your attitude is all too typical of the secretive nature of British government , which cries out for reform . ’ |
| 13 | Price rises were similar whether the illegal trade was detected by a stock exchange — which looks out for unusually large price jumps — or by tip-offs from jilted mistresses and the like , who probably do not . |
| 14 | As a consequence , both Cushing and Lovett resigned , as did the 44-times capped McHarg when the news was relayed to him in India , which is a sad way to end a relationship which stretches back for well over two decades . |
| 15 | Which works out for both of you . |
| 16 | The compression ratio is from 1:1 to infinity:1 and Threshold , Ratio , Attack and Release controls are provided , along with an Output level control which makes up for any gain lost during processing . |
| 17 | Well , it doesn't — but then it does have a really nice stylus which makes up for it ! |
| 18 | No stone rolled down the cliff that morning , and I left Euclid still snoozing on the old redwood step at about 10.50am and headed off over the bridge to Lighthouse Road , which runs along for two or three miles south of the river , through to the mouth of the Mattole and the northern tip of the King range . |
| 19 | ‘ Could n't I see her , before she goes in for surgery ? ’ |
| 20 | She 's with a boy our age — a toy boy — and though he deserts her for young girls and even beats her up — she 's such a sucker for punishment , she goes back for more . |
| 21 | when she goes out for a meal she 's got a problem , now if that was me I 'd be having loads of big ones |
| 22 | Although she turns up for the interview her customary peaked-capped urchin self , she is worried that her feminist interpreters will consider her video a sell-out . |
| 23 | Edwina , the worldly mother-in-law who goes in for interior decoration . |
| 24 | You 're the one , I would say , who goes in for aggression . ’ |
| 25 | A man who goes in for abduction does n't merit explanations , and neither , ’ she went on , warming to her subject , ‘ does anyone who can purloin other people 's property , quite deliberately and without conscience , have any right to spout morals at me . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm not the only one who goes in for charades , ’ he said harshly . |
| 27 | Taken from her monthly BBC Radio ‘ Woman 's Hour ’ series and culminating as she flies over for the opening night of ‘ 84 Charing Cross Road ’ . |
| 28 | The Leeds Permanent Building Society , for example , pays £5 to one of three charities for each customer who signs up for a Leeds Visa affinity card . |
| 29 | He numbers among his close friends Patrick Hourcade of French Vogue , who looks out for fine furniture for him . |
| 30 | On the course , she stands out for her softly , rather than aggressively , spiked hair , a finish with the driver which , like Arnold Palmer 's , tells you precisely how much she has given to the shot , and an unusually generous attitude towards the opposition . |