Example sentences of "[noun] went for " in BNC.
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| 1 | A set of four covered Quianlong Chinese porcelain vases went for FFr 1,310,000 ( est . |
| 2 | Greenidge went for 115 , Rowe joined Richards , and at tea the score was 330 for 2 . |
| 3 | was a bottle of of whisky from that distillery went for a huge p price at one of the big |
| 4 | Rachel Billington went for Powell and Iris Murdoch ( ‘ If we 're talking about pushing forward the boundaries of the novel ’ ) . |
| 5 | Arms salesman ; okay the Avenger the Equaliser the Total Fucking Nutter went for the legs too but still , and the editor spiked , and the rapist-lenient judge raped and the pornographer poisoned and stroked and the man who was so callous about the bloodshed in the Iran/Iraq war forced to watch his penned animals die like cattle like soldiers like cattle and then bled to death in his own private fountains of blood and the businessman who put profits before safety and not only helped kill a thousand people but then tried to get out of paying the survivors and dependants any compensation gets his own gas explosion — blevey is the technical term apparently — and fuck me whoever he is ( assuming he is a he ) , he 's got a sense of humour or at least irony why he 's produced what 's almost a snuff video effectively a snuff video if you mean brain-death anyway it 's the closest anyone will admit to ever having seen or found one even the Obscene Pubs Squad who 've been looking for years but although everybody assumes they exist nobody 's ever seen one until old gorilla man comes along and just makes his own , specifically to warn off any other porn merchants thinking of dealing in snuff ! |
| 6 | Beatty turned it down as not being a big enough role , and so Polanski went for Robert Redford . |
| 7 | Now , when Robin Hood , Prince of Thieves came out , Kevin Costner was the one your mother fancied , and Christian Slater was the one all the teenagers went for . |
| 8 | The club went for another batsman instead , and that 's why I was intent on resigning . |
| 9 | Kay went for a head-butt on Colin Walsh , who refused to discuss the incident after the match . |
| 10 | Jay was now In Love with the impossible Lucy , Dionne went for butch crewcut teenagers , and they hugged each other 's hurt away and made love like some people offer Kleenex and brandy in times of stress . |
| 11 | Dionne went for the outlaw type , or so she said , then mothered and civilised them until they were unrecognisable , and when her dream of civilised and raunchy equality went out the slammed door , there she was alone again , smoking a little more than usual , drinking a little more than necessary and swearing herself to celibacy until the next sulky brow slouched into view and stole her hopeful heart away . |
| 12 | We got a birdie at the 11th by using the 1-iron when Johnny went for the 3-wood , got on , but not near enough to make the birdie putt . |
| 13 | Richard Scott went for nought , caught out and caught behind , thanks to the pace of Bishop . |
| 14 | ONE SUMMER in 1920 , while staying with the Morells at Garsington , the late Percy Feilding went for a drive around Oxfordshire , and miles up a cart track , purely by chance , he found Beckley . |
| 15 | Van Gogh went for sunflowers … and Turner liked a nice boat … but these are the favoured subject of Huang Youngping . |
| 16 | United stuck on three … but Bury went for more … and got them … numbers four and five could be classed as freaks or flukes Daws and Rigby were given the the goals … but forget football this was more like pinball … |
| 17 | On Christmas night Ruth went for her nightly bath and came out in her nightdress . |
| 18 | ( More traditional pedagogy went for appreciation rather than analysis , urging the reader to a direct experience of the poem , perhaps inhaling its beauty like the scent of a flower ; but the underlying process was similar . ) |
| 19 | She used to be drawn towards political life , she dreamt of the English statesman , yet when Simon went for office she was against it . |
| 20 | All Scotland 's impressive technique and tactical shrewdness went for nought in the 26th minute , though , when they lost a depressingly poor goal . |
| 21 | We sat in the shade of a wall while a boy went for help . |
| 22 | Me an , Me and Gemma and Jane went for walk yesterday some people we met along the road I di I did it all and erm |
| 23 | Notts County about to cave in as Town went for the kill . |
| 24 | And if the fish went for his belly , he knew that he would be dead . |
| 25 | But by the morning of the fifth day , rider and horse became a team , and by that afternoon Artemis and her teacher went for a stiff ten-mile hack . |
| 26 | The Kirgiz leader , Masaliev , called for a unitary USSR with a strong centre ; most other republican first secretaries , however , called for a renewed federation , and the Armenian leader Movsisyan went for the more radical idea of the USSR as a union of sovereign states based upon a network of bilateral associations . |
| 27 | Alain went for the gap , Steve moved over and Alain locked up the brakes flat-out in top . |
| 28 | ‘ Is that the one whose husband went for her with a chopper ? ’ |
| 29 | Mr Abramson , of Shirley Road , Allerton , said last night : ‘ I had just gone to the off-licence to help my daughter Trudie while her husband went for his tea . |
| 30 | As time trouble approached , Short went for a wild kingside attack , but Karpov played well and it was Short 's king which proved the weaker . |