Example sentences of "[adv] went for " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know he only went to he only went for a pee you know what I mean that cramming five pound and ten pound deals at him , and he 's going , No you can , you know . |
| 2 | But we only went for half a day at that period and then for a month or so then the troops went away again , we got back into our own school . |
| 3 | We only went for two days . |
| 4 | He turned up at the dance studio in a pair of very skimpy tight shorts and observing that everyone else was very white and wore towelling track suits , and seeing that he was very tall and very naked , got nervous so went for a walk and smoked a joint . |
| 5 | As a young actor you obviously went for a great deal of variety in characters and accents . |
| 6 | Nigel meanwhile went for the beer . |
| 7 | When I finally went for the ( pregnancy ) test , I thought , this is it , this is the point where I go on the Pill . |
| 8 | ‘ John 's method of working would be : ‘ Okay , this is in C , ’ and unless it had abnormal changes we just went for it . |
| 9 | ‘ I just went for a walk . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I just went for a camera and when I opened the bag I could n't believe what was inside . |
| 11 | ‘ In the race we just went for them . |
| 12 | ‘ The Italians were bigger , stronger and older than us but in the end we just went for their throats . |
| 13 | I had sweat all over my face and as soon as they opened the door I just went for one of them . |
| 14 | ‘ I just went for a wander outside and all these police burst in , ’ he says . |
| 15 | ‘ I just went for a wander outside and all these police burst in , ’ he says . |
| 16 | He had no strong views on fox hunting , he just went for a cheap day out . |
| 17 | I just went for the price . |
| 18 | and er we just went for about ten minutes , but she 's alright in herself |
| 19 | John Lennon 's lyrics for A Day In The Life fetched £44,000 and Paul McCartney 's hit She 's Leaving Home went for £41,000 at Sotheby 's in London . |
| 20 | In vacations he still went for interviews with his psychiatrist , who did not feel that he had quite got ‘ to the bottom of things ’ . |
| 21 | He had already blown out in the first two matches yet still went for a practice to give me information on a different stretch for which I was grateful . |
| 22 | And , since you asked , she once went for a policeman with her stilettoes as he tried to bundle a black man into a car outside a dance hall on the bottom of the Tottenham Court Road ( derogatory remarks in that department were still more likely to earn a black eye than a black look in The Bar ) . |
| 23 | I was nearly in love , I was proposed to a couple of times ; on the other hand , I once went for a year without men , without sex — both seemed too much trouble . |
| 24 | I once went for a job as a fisherman . |
| 25 | We deliberately went for a position of responsibility and moderation in this argument , where if I may say so , some other people have n't put the same constraints on themselves . |
| 26 | He always went for a type — dark-haired , dark-eyed endomorphs — and when chatting up his quarry , his voice would change from baritone to bass baritone without realising . |
| 27 | He always went for a walk about this hour . |
| 28 | Lord Hesketh , the chief whip in the Lords , also went for flower power in the form of a pink carnation set off nicely by a red bow tie and cream shirt . |
| 29 | But as well as the playing being better , we also went for a lot of different arrangements and different sounds , using a whole variety of guitars . |
| 30 | William Golding fans included Blake Morrison , literary editor of the Independent on Sunday ( who also went for Kingley Amis ) and John Coldstream , literary editor of the Daily Telegraph . |