Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] gone [adv prt] for " in BNC.

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1 None of the European resorts has yet gone in for the wholesale investment in snow-making which we see in the United States , mainly because the capital outlay is enormous and the running costs extremely high .
2 The arts community has always gone in for manic attention-seeking , of course — the oxygen of publicity ( to borrow a phrase ) being crucial to its survival .
3 Typically , Gedge has since gone in for his usual strict self-criticism .
4 A disused Victorian toilet block has just gone up for sale .
5 The debate has now gone on for thirty minutes .
6 The idea seemed to fit Lucy 's current expression , as though all hands had already gone down for the third time .
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