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Example sentences of "[verb] go [adv] for the " in BNC.

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1	It is usually noticeable that when a masochist has for years felt hard done by , often over-controlled by their partner , and then for some reason the tables are turned , he or she metes out punishment as if this has to go on for the same length of time that the masochist 's suffering was endured .
2	Like a car needs to go in for the M O T , you 've got ta
3	It had not been lived in recently it had none of that slight warmth of humanity you find in a dwelling whose inhabitant has gone out for the day .
4	how much was n't held until after I 'd gone up for the money for Matthew 's back .
5	I assaulted this position from every angle , ranging from thoughtful analyses of the male mid-life crisis , its nature and origins , to sweeping ad absurdum dismissals in which I demonstrated that by the same token Trish and Brian were equally culpable , because if they 'd gone out for the day I would have stayed at home and we would never have met in the first place .
6	Jean Parmiter sent her apologies for being unable to teach as arranged ; she and her husband had had to go away for the weekend .
7	And it more or less made it that we 'd got to go back for the ten and thruppence .
8	Nicky Cruz and his gang , the Mau Maus , decide to go along for the ride … .
9	you 'll have to go elsewhere for the actual paper . )
10	So they all must have gone out for the dinner .
11	The grown ups having gone out for the evening we then kept awake alternately for half-hour shifts by one of the boy 's watches until at long last we were rewarded by the sound of creaking and thumps from the stairs , accompanied by slurry avuncular curses and " shushes " from the aunts .
12	Started as they meant to go on for the holiday .
13	A couple of weeks later , just as most of the officers and men of the Allied Screening Commission in Verona were preparing to go off for the weekend to the country , an enormous , chauffeur-driven Fiat motor car with a flag on the front of it rolled up in the drive .
14	‘ It would have been just like Jean to have gone along for the journey . ’
15	We 're chasing up two other people who were at that party , and who both seem to have gone out for the day .
16	Not Adam Burns , though — oh no , he had to go straight for the jugular .
17	True to his brother 's word , David had gone straight for the fish cakes .
18	Mary and Reggie had gone away for the weekend , and would not be back until evening .
19	Yet nothing had gone right for the crusade .
20	with , with , with it , with it before I actually got involved after negotiations had gone through for the remo for the moving of the tenants .
21	I kept just killing time until it had gone eleven o'clock and all the cinema-goers had gone in for the late shows , at which point I decided to call it a day .
22	The driver of the van had been wanted for questioning , and the way CI5 had gone in for the arrest had clearly been the direct cause of the van 's destruction on the hot end of the booby-trap bomb it had been carrying .
23	What I had meant to say was that he was being inducted as a churchwarden , and the two of them had gone off for the ceremony — my friend was having a busy day !
24	‘ I do n't notice you laughing when I have to go away for the night .
25	‘ You have to go out for the kids , you have to go to the schools and sign autographs .
26	Furthermore , he contests , costs at the company have gone up for the simple reason that it has moved into different areas of activity — IBM simply made the mistake of trying to be ‘ all things to all people ’ , and so will never be able to return to the profit levels of the mid-1980s .
27	Since then , for the thirteen years since Kapuscinski 's departure , things have gone badly for the Angolans , and they are still suffering terribly .
28	I phoned Kevin , I 've got Kevin 's mum and dad 's phone number off Dave and phoned at home but he 's gone out for the day or something they said .