Example sentences of "have [adv] gone in [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Typically , Gedge has since gone in for his usual strict self-criticism .
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 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 .
4 ‘ Diana is an Uptown girl who has never gone in for downtown men , ’ observes Rory Scott .
5 ‘ We knew the water was dangerous and had only gone in to our knees .
6 Dinah had just gone in with the dagger to smear the sleeping servants with blood .
7 And as often as you tell yourself she 's not your type , that you do n't like blondes , your taste tends towards the browns , even redheads but not blondes , no ; and what 's more , her face is round , but you do n't like round faces ; and you 've always gone in for a bit of shape and she 's flat as a pancake .
8 Incidentally , it does n't include the disposal of Smithmark We 've also er we 've also gone in for other cost reduction exercises , for instance at er Dalton with a review of warehousing and distribution er , we should save about a million pounds in a full year and we 've been ramming home to our chief executives the need for annual payroll reviews to be geared to the profitability of the company rather than t rather than to the rate of inflation er , or even , er in , even the market place .
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