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 . |