Example sentences of "[adv] go [adv prt] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean given that you 've got a , oh I do n't know , a pound you 're going to spend a week in gambling entertainment , if I could put it that way , you 'd do better to go in for the pools , because if you did have a win you might have a big one , than to put it on a horse — am I right ? |
| 2 | It was a pleasant voice , with an undertone of humour , and Alexandra was immediately jealous , envisaging Matthew and his secretary in his office , laughing together , sharing jokes about his work , perhaps going out for a quick meal before they both went home . |
| 3 | There was still enough money and enough going on for a ‘ hot ’ property like Nicholson to walk in and begin making fortunes immediately . |
| 4 | Well there there are three there are three organizations or companies there that I think you 'd be er happier in especially going out for the first time and also er your style . |
| 5 | In the second incident , involving the credit card , he had only gone along for the ride , and had not used the card himself , said Mr Harper . |
| 6 | Mm Oh that would be alright if we go yeah we can all go over for a nice little run out |
| 7 | Well he 's taken us out when they 've been to bloody shop working and come back and wa I admitted that , but I mean just to go out for an evening . |
| 8 | I am bound to say My Lords that my own view is still that the size within the limits laid down by statute with a minimum of sixteen or eighteen and maximum of twenty-four would best be determined locally and if we 're not going in for a national police force , I still ca n't see what it has to do with the Secretary of State and why the Home Office should be settling the size of forty-three or so police authorities . |
| 9 | You 're not going back for a month ? |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm just going out for a minute , Mam , I wo n't be long . ’ |
| 11 | Kissing or touching another man in a sexual way or even just going out for a drink without telling a partner is regarded by most as being unfaithful . |
| 12 | ‘ I thought we were just going out for a couple of hours ! ’ she protested hotly . |
| 13 | with , with my granddaughter , she , she did the same s she used to go and babysit at this girl 's house and she fe felt , she was only fourteen , and she felt sorry for her and she 'd go and babysit every night she 'd go and babysit and er but she used to b sit up in the bedroom , she never ever went down the sitting room thinking that the child 's mother was either down in the sitting room or just going out for a short while and coming back and then eventually they put erm a bed up in the child 's bedroom for Denise to stay there over nights and Pearl did n't worry at all , well she knew , knew where , at least she knew where and er this girl was bringing men back down in the sitting room every night , three or four , sometimes ten men in a night during the night ! |
| 14 | I 'm just going out for a bit . |
| 15 | So erm I was feeling a bit edgy about this when we were in the pub after the concert cos I thought maybe he 's reading things into it and I , you know , I was just going along for the music . |
| 16 | Well it 's quite fun just going off for the odd day cos then he goes off to see Ian , he enjoys that but it was two afternoons last week cos I did Thursday afternoon and Friday afternoon |
| 17 | Pike was standing by a wooden rack of pamphlets , including What Has Old Mother Walsh to Say to Us ? and a large , colourful one for the kiddies entitled Daddy is n't Dead , He 's Just Gone Out for a Bit . |
| 18 | But I think they 'd just gone back for the money creed and once you get that well erm they do n't realize that they could be falling into the trap unless we blokes stand firm now to maintain this standard of living . |
| 19 | Even when I arrived back at Thornfield , I did not go in for a while . |
| 20 | She would not go down for the fireworks . |
| 21 | ‘ One does not go out for a meal just for the food , ’ he added , hardly improving the situation . |
| 22 | ‘ Give me your number and do not go out for the next half-hour . ’ |
| 23 | book anything up , just go over for a week . |
| 24 | Of course you can view it , as some bridle-riders do , as a holiday for your horse — you just go along for the ride . |
| 25 | Ca n't think in the arts , in the art bit so I just I just go in for a coffee as well , yeah . |
| 26 | And is that for children who are living there or just go in for the day ? |
| 27 | Just go in for the day till their parents go to work I think . |
| 28 | We just go down for a bit of practice a few nights before . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I just go out for a bit , just for an hour or two , and when I come back you ai n't even got the kettle on . |
| 30 | It , it , it just went on for a lit a short time afterwards but er , but when the war ended course things , some things changed pretty rapidly as you can appreciate but , but by this time I , I was working for Ellwells then on long distance transport and we used to have to go and fetch tractors or bulldozers that had got armour plating on from Dagenham docks and bring them up here and start selling them to civic contractors and the , the Americans were selling a lot of equipment as well at end of the war , and I saw money made overnight like , people were buying the lorries and putting them on the road you know for work and transport firms and all that and they were getting some of them for next to nothing |