go in for vs select

go in for

verb
  • To enter a competition. 

  • To have an interest in or approve of something. 

  • To engage oneself or take part in something. 

select

adj
  • Privileged, specially selected. 

  • Of high quality; top-notch. 

verb
  • To choose one or more elements of a set, especially a set of options. 

  • To obtain a set of data from a database using a query. 

How often have the words go in for and select occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )