Example sentences of "[adv] go [adv prt] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new puppy is very timid with strangers but now she is old enough to go out for walks , we have found she is growling at other dogs . |
| 2 | A disused Victorian toilet block has just gone up for sale . |
| 3 | We were not at a party , he did not go in for brunettes , and I was very much his junior . |
| 4 | Different objectives of different finns controlled and limited the techniques of production they could use ( eg. a firm developing prototypes of electronic equipment can not go in for mass-production ) . |
| 5 | The royal family does not go in for oratory , so the policy is evident mostly in endless American- and British-made videos on television , boasting of Saudi Arabia 's military and industrial prowess . |
| 6 | The French do not go in for diphthongs but have at least one vowel sound that almost defeats the Anglo-Saxon . |
| 7 | And when , to show what a good little wife I had become — Nonni thought that my aunts did not ‘ appreciate ’ me , meaning that they did not go in for endearments or tell me how pretty I looked — she pointed out , one Sunday lunchtime , how well I had starched the table napkins , Aunt Lilian said , ‘ But why ? |
| 8 | The Old Testament does not go in for saints . |
| 9 | Genesis does not go in for saints ( though Joseph will , perhaps , approach that status ) . |
| 10 | He had a good degree in art history , and had he not gone in for politics he might have made a name for himself as an art historian . |
| 11 | We must look after not all of the sport , the high flyers , the starters , the beginners and those who just go out for enjoyment and potter . |
| 12 | They just went out for dinner , that sort of thing . ’ |
| 13 | We just went out for days and that really last week . |
| 14 | The show always goes on for Shirley |
| 15 | They 're always going down for anaesthetic , we ca n't find it . |
| 16 | But Fraser , pressed on the question of value for money resorted to other arguments : " they are more economical , but they are not so satisfactory , they are always going off for sickness of some kind or another , or their mother is ill or something of that kind — that is the greatest trouble , their mother is ill constantly " . |
| 17 | ‘ Those sessions usually go on for hours . ’ |
| 18 | are you do you ever go in for karaoke and stuff stuff like that ? |
| 19 | ‘ He told me he had once nearly gone in for psychiatry . |
| 20 | Do you know I if you ask Andrea about it , anything she 'll probably go on for ages , and ages , and ages , and ages ! |
| 21 | The search now goes on for cancers over a wider area . |
| 22 | In recent years , it 's been nice to know that I could decide to take my wife Lizzie on Concorde and not have to ask permission from the bank manager , but I 've never really gone in for extravagances — they all add up to too many paper rounds . |
| 23 | yes , well I do n't know , I suppose that nearly all er the houses in Harlow you could say are open planned now , you know had a , had er , a , kitchen dining area that we have , erm or erm lounge , diner , erm they have n't gone in , in this , the ordinary houses , they have n't gone in for building |
| 24 | It might last a minute , an hour or even go on for days and there was nothing Dexter could do to fight it . |
| 25 | Indeed , those effects may well go on for generations , as a troubled parent will often produce troubled offspring of his own . |
| 26 | I exaggerate , of course : they do n't go in for tears , they just ignore me . |
| 27 | And we do n't go in for naughtiness . |
| 28 | Besides , the KGB does n't go in for assassinations these days . ’ |
| 29 | Mushroom is respectable too , I should add — but we do n't go in for tans , we 're too worried about skin cancer . |
| 30 | Apart from the fact that there 's an eleven-year gap in our ages and I do n't go in for cradle-snatching , she happens to be my stepsister . ’ |