Example sentences of "[adj] [vb -s] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Byrne looks embarrassed to be in it — and it is indeed a sore waste of his undoubted talents — while Basinger as usual goes for the lowest common , and I mean common , denominator . |
| 2 | Although the details of the prescriptions advanced in each case may vary , there is some similarity in the nature of the diagnosis which each offers for what it is that currently afflicts our ailing body politic . |
| 3 | Of course , that goes for any large dog . |
| 4 | Love from Uncle Willie and that goes for him too . ’ |
| 5 | And that goes for Chris Patten , the party chairman , as well . |
| 6 | That goes for the whole Scottish team , poised between the extinction of their American dream and a famous victory . |
| 7 | AND THAT GOES FOR BIG LAWRIE |
| 8 | ‘ That goes for the rest of the team . |
| 9 | ‘ That goes for me , ’ Daak threw in , to Defries 's surprise . |
| 10 | ‘ That goes for me too , ’ Ace said . |
| 11 | ‘ Not everyone has the drive , ability , energy or inclination to aim for the top — and of course that goes for both men and women . |
| 12 | Er , it would n't matter to the leather trade as such or to any of the countries , er if there was no saddling and harness trade , and that goes for countries like erm , Britain and France and Germany and United States and so on . |
| 13 | And that goes for your girlfriend and the punctured cab driver too . |
| 14 | That goes for the well-meaning GPs , health visitors and breastfeeding counsellors as well as the woman down the road who fed four babies herself until they were two years old ! |
| 15 | He looked around and added : ‘ That goes for your shadow-loving fleabag partner too , wherever he 's hiding . ’ |
| 16 | And that goes for the doctors I admire as well . |
| 17 | That goes for everyone on the mainland as well . |
| 18 | Yes , erm , I had in mind that , is there a seconder to that ? my own view is that erm , and that goes for most of the way for dealing with the problem , but I think it would be appropriate for this committee to make it clear that erm , any extension of the maximum aggregate for the current financial year will be met by an appropriate reduction or a corresponding reduction in the expenditure for ninety four ninety five , erm and I 'm not certain that that 's absolutely clear to the public or indeed to all members of |
| 19 | Erm , clearly we are in a room full of people who have a more than marginal interest in the political process erm and that goes for your boundaries of Cambridge city councils er remit and clearly contains also to parliamentary methods erm I 'm trying not to be desperately partisan about this , I do n't expect anybody erm but a phrase has been used earlier this evening from another quarter about if it 's not broke do n't fix it , erm the boundary commission have looked at the boundaries of the Cambridge city constituency have found that it is up to ninety nine percent of the right and proper er number of electors . |
| 20 | And that goes for the Bucks Badger group as well . |
| 21 | And that goes for YOU and HIM . |
| 22 | But — ‘ time waits for no man ’ and that goes for woman too — bombarded as she is with ever new vogues , ever changing fads and fashions — constantly confronted with remonstrations to be ‘ with it ’ and keep up to date . |
| 23 | And that goes for a lot of businesses ! |
| 24 | No , that goes for tan colour course it does n't go |
| 25 | that cries for blood like a late Edwardian |
| 26 | I did see gordon in town a few weeks ago though if that counts for anything … |
| 27 | that knocks for all on TV addicts |
| 28 | ( that stands for Kids of Survival ) , an artist cooperative that has had an enormous success in recent years , opened its first show at Mary Boone last month . |
| 29 | So we start off with the first one that you have , this C W , that stands for company worker . |
| 30 | ‘ Joyce did not move from the day book of Ulysses to the night book of the Wake , and that has for too long been one of the fundamental mistakes that people have been making . |