Example sentences of "we went for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Operations manager Siobhan Hunter , who is responsible for the Morgan Grenfell contract , says : ‘ We 've been looking at computers for the past 18 months , and we went for Caterdata , having seen it in action at BE Services , the in-house caterer at the Bank of England . ’ |
| 2 | When I found it , there was an argument and we went for each other . ’ |
| 3 | Yet , ironically , Stead 's recollection of Eliot 's walking in the woods , in true Frazerian style , after his baptism at Finstock in Oxfordshire on 29 June 1927 , perceives just the unusual link of savage and city which Eliot might appear to have renounced : ‘ … after dinner we went for a twilight walk through Wychwood , an ancient haunted forest , ‘ savage and enchanted ’ . |
| 4 | We went for a coffee and Odd-Knut explained his ideas for the trip . |
| 5 | Each time we went for another animal all those left howled and fought their chains to get close to us so as not to be left behind . |
| 6 | The closest I ever got to you was when we went for a spin on your motor bike , with me like a ravished flapper on the pillion , legitimately clinging to your lissom waist , to those two wonderful hip-bones I loved to hold , as if they were the very hinges of heaven , whose wind blew your hair back into my ecstatic face : |
| 7 | We went for walks in the enchanting gardens of Bath . |
| 8 | She 'd been with us for a year when we went for a day 's walk in the country . |
| 9 | He said : ‘ Originally we went for an American-style back-end load or exit charge which was tapered to reduce by a percentage point for each year an investment was held . |
| 10 | So we went for a last look round . |
| 11 | One day we went for a tour around the mill and the lasting memory that I have is the terrible clattering of the looms and the speed at which the never idle operators worked to ensure that their piece of material was faultless . |
| 12 | Sometimes we will be going upstairs to get something but , by the time we are there , we have forgotten what it was that we went for . |
| 13 | In the afternoon we went for our first ever dive with Patrick , Le Ponant 's diving director . |
| 14 | It seemed okay , so we went for it . |
| 15 | One day we went for an excursion with my godson George and his young parents , George clutching teddy , nearly as big as himself . |
| 16 | We went for an excursion to the Peloponnesian mainland opposite . |
| 17 | We were bunched together in the semi-final of the 1976 Olympic 1500m in Montreal and as we went for the same small gap I felt his spike again my shin . |
| 18 | ‘ We went for an open systems solution because we wanted to build in flexibility for the future , ’ says ACCOUNTANCY 's Malcolm Cole . |
| 19 | After lunch one day we went for a walk in the nearby woods , my mother remaining at home with the two younger children and the rest of us accompanying my father and my aunt . |
| 20 | ‘ We went for Peter Beardsley , but it was n't right for Everton . |
| 21 | ‘ We tried to sign Chris Waddle , but it was not right for him at the time , we went for Peter Beardsley , but it was not right for Everton . |
| 22 | Suppose we went for this drink and the Hobbs greeted us ? |
| 23 | We went for a cruise on the river , now a mooring for ocean yachts . |
| 24 | Instead of the stock stories about Bogarde 's early films , we went for a bit of drama as he lives in France and Arthur Marshall hated the French . |
| 25 | ‘ With ‘ All Over My Face ’ we went for a rather professional production , ’ sighs Andy . |
| 26 | There was another track after ‘ Happy Hour ’ that we could have put out that probably would have done just as well , but instead we went for a ballad , ‘ Think For A Minute ’ , to make people think , ‘ Jesus , there 's more to this group than I 'd thought ’ . |
| 27 | But when we went for a fitting , the garments had been made with buttons just sewn onto tacky fake buttonholes . |
| 28 | Then we went for a walk out in the garden . |
| 29 | So we went for a shellac finish . |
| 30 | After we came up out of the dank womb of the pit , we went for a drink in the welfare club . |