Example sentences of "go [prep] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 This gave excitement , the opportunity to go off duty early or at least to return to the warmth and relative conviviality of the police station , as well as prestige …
2 erm well would , w w would anybody want to advocate that , yes , the option was to go for collectivization fairly quickly ?
3 I think I 'll have to go for Sheridan too — he was my kind of player , comfortable on the ball , good passer , and took excellent free kicks too .
4 The emphasis of Paul is clear , we are to go for quality both in our performance and in the way we conduct ourselves in the workplace .
5 Robin-Anne , who had been looking very apprehensive , seemed to go aboard Wavebreaker rather unwillingly .
6 ‘ He 's had to go through Mordecai precisely because he is a Copt .
7 Lasting impressions so far : the sun ( miraculously ) shining on the slopes of Dalwhinnie , far in the north , on the first leg of the journey ; stumbling across Drew from the World Cup holiday in a motorway café somewhere in England in the middle of the night ; breakfast and mineral water with Claire ( oh , it was good to see her ) in an Italian cafe near London Victoria ; people throwing up all over the joint on the Seacat crossing to Boulogne ( and me staggering about , legs way out of control , on the deck , getting soaked by the spray , saltwater taste in the mouth , and a rainbow arcing on top of the water behind the catamaran ) ; complaining English and American tourist ( ‘ It 's ridiculous that we have to go through customs — why do we have to go through customs anyway ? … ) ; terrible fatigue on the train to Paris , and temperamental French men shouting and swearing at each other in the aisle ; relief at finding Angela 's flat in Paris ; difficult negotiation of the very narrow stairwell , finally finding her way at the top on the 6th floor ; food , and wine , and a shower , and a bed-settee for the night ; Japanese tourists at Notre Dame , and a man announcing his state of poverty and homelessness on the Métro — ‘ ‘ .
8 you know er it helps if erm it helps if the groups that you 're comparing between there 's about sort of at least twenty people in each sort of thing , erm and the same goes for things like , things that you might want to do squares on or something like that erm so I mean if you were interested in comparing people who attended very regularly with people who only attended once in a while erm you know it would help if there were about sort of more than forty people altogether so that there was sort of , you know
9 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 .
10 P. He is so much more powerful , and goes for stuff fully .
11 This goes for women as much as for men ; street make-up is not suitable .
12 Secondly , it is seen in a whole host of tactics and alternative strategies to the simple procedure of insisting that the sufferer goes for treatment just as he or she would do for any other disease .
13 ( If the case goes for trial rather than arbitration , solicitor 's costs will be allowed subject to the normal rules ) .
14 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 .
15 Perhaps they were going to go after Hasan now .
16 Chettle looking for Rozario and finds him and it goes towards Collimore just cleared in the nick of time by Whitlow .
17 Benny said she did n't want anyone they did n't know , and it was with some relief that they heard the niece Clodagh did n't want to go amongst strangers either .
18 ‘ You 're not to go near Sam tomorrow , do you hear ? ’ he said .
19 I have also heard of a CL diesel — list price £12,196 — going for £10,850 recently .
20 Not going for drinkies tomorrow ?
21 You 'd need to , that 's why they nee er the Communist Party was going for progress in ord so that the peasants would see that socialism was a good sort of goal is n't it ?
22 Director General Sir Michael Checkland put a question mark over favourites like Big Break , Telly Addicts and Going For Gold yesterday .
23 Where are you going for Christmas then Dot ?
24 Where she going for Christmas then ?
25 So you 've , is there then a choice between going for socialism now , going straight into collectivization or delaying it and keeping that end product in sight ?
26 The Latics beat Forest 2-1 in a thriller and Royle promised : ‘ We 'll be going for goals again . ’
27 Going for quality not only means the way we do our work , but the standards with which we conduct ourselves at work .
28 The employer said it had been attempting to tighten up on the very widespread practice of employees going for tea immediately after clocking on .
29 Constance and Will loved going for walks together .
30 The printer , running off posters on his flat-bed press , was going through operations not significantly different from those performed by Caxton five hundred years earlier .
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