Example sentences of "have gone [adv prt] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had not been lived in recently it had none of that slight warmth of humanity you find in a dwelling whose inhabitant has gone out for the day . |
| 2 | As you may already realise , once again the Almeida has gone in for a lot of posh posturing got up as a drama of social consciousness . |
| 3 | how much was n't held until after I 'd gone up for the money for Matthew 's back . |
| 4 | Then they 'd gone in for a look . |
| 5 | She wondered if the others were playing a joke on her : perhaps they 'd gone out for a walk ; perhaps , at this very moment , they were laughing at the thought of her waiting for a killer who would never come . |
| 6 | I had this octopus once in Germany and it , we 'd gone out for a meal and I was gon na have steak and mushrooms and |
| 7 | I assaulted this position from every angle , ranging from thoughtful analyses of the male mid-life crisis , its nature and origins , to sweeping ad absurdum dismissals in which I demonstrated that by the same token Trish and Brian were equally culpable , because if they 'd gone out for the day I would have stayed at home and we would never have met in the first place . |
| 8 | So they all must have gone out for the dinner . |
| 9 | The grown ups having gone out for the evening we then kept awake alternately for half-hour shifts by one of the boy 's watches until at long last we were rewarded by the sound of creaking and thumps from the stairs , accompanied by slurry avuncular curses and " shushes " from the aunts . |
| 10 | ‘ It would have been just like Jean to have gone along for the journey . ’ |
| 11 | We 're chasing up two other people who were at that party , and who both seem to have gone out for the day . |
| 12 | They 've gone out for a walk to have a cigar but as far we 're concerned they 're not having a cigar . |
| 13 | Well , we 've done that , as we said we would and of course , in a business such as Pearson , which is a people business er , although we regularly monitor employment statistics , such as total employ total number of employees er , revenue per employee , cost per employee , profit per employee , there are times when we have to take er , difficult decisions and er , so we 've gone in for a lot of redundancy , which we 'll see in , in er during the next slide or two . |
| 14 | I was surprised , for I had lost all count of time and had felt it had gone on for a week . |
| 15 | The driver of the van had been wanted for questioning , and the way CI5 had gone in for the arrest had clearly been the direct cause of the van 's destruction on the hot end of the booby-trap bomb it had been carrying . |
| 16 | It was a small grave , and at its head was a low wooden cross inscribed with his name , date of birth , and date of death ; and as I passed , I had a vision of a little Aberdeen terrier who had gone off for a run by himself , and was now sporting in the fields of Paradise . |
| 17 | What I had meant to say was that he was being inducted as a churchwarden , and the two of them had gone off for the ceremony — my friend was having a busy day ! |
| 18 | It was dusk , and the evening was as still and airless as the previous one when , impatient for news , Zen had gone out for a stroll . |
| 19 | A Teesside inquest heard how Wayne had gone out for a spin in the W-reg white Ford Escort with four pals in November last year . |
| 20 | She assumed he had gone out for a reason but became worried and phoned a friend . |
| 21 | Dad 's gone up for a bath . ’ |
| 22 | He 's gone out for a while . |
| 23 | Now let's keep reminding you about the time situation , sixty five minutes gone , Shrewsbury have another twenty five minutes in which to hang on here , it 's Shrewsbury three , Blackburn Rovers two , it 's gon na be a nervous evening here for the normally placid Shropshire folk at as that ball is headed forward by and here 's , again in field to , clipped forward for Mike , here comes advancing towards the edge of the penalty area , he 's got ta try and get past the brick wall of , and it 's now who tries to release down the right hand side , he 's got ta get past , he does so , he gets the ball across and that one is cleared importantly by only as far as who tries to hook it back in and that the ball would n't reach him and it would n't reach either and it 's gone out for a goal kick to Shrewsbury . |
| 24 | I phoned Kevin , I 've got Kevin 's mum and dad 's phone number off Dave and phoned at home but he 's gone out for the day or something they said . |