Example sentences of "went [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes I went trolling for lythe with rubber eels , or fly fishing for saithe and mackerel in the clear water around the rocks . |
| 2 | We went looking for like-minds and found aliens . |
| 3 | It was getting dark when Simon went looking for Gazzer . |
| 4 | If you failed to work your beat and the sergeant went looking for you and could n't find you , you 'd be reported and land before the chief constable . |
| 5 | I never went looking for trouble — it normally came to me . ’ |
| 6 | YOUNG brothers learning to play golf went looking for a lost ball — and found an abandoned baby . |
| 7 | They went looking for former hotel porter Joao Gomes , 40 , after his wife Maria , 39 , was stabbed to death on Tuesday at her flat on the Elysee Estate in St Helier . |
| 8 | He brought in colleague Brian McGowan as his partner and went looking for an acquisition vehicle . |
| 9 | Some of us worried and went looking for him , then one of Alf Wood 's sons found him dead in the old pw hut , we think he died of a heart attack or so the doctor said . |
| 10 | Some as young as eleven and twelve , these ‘ migrant labourers ’ went looking for work and did not always find it , turning to other less than legal ways of earning their bread . |
| 11 | And when the whistle went seconds after Sinton tucked in his spot-kick , Morris went looking for trouble . |
| 12 | He went looking for a gas leak with a lighted match . ’ |
| 13 | The sturdily independent high tech sector had naught for the comfort of either major party in the run-up to today 's by-election in Newbury , Berkshire when the big guns from party headquarters showed up for photocalls during the build-up : Labour chose Vodafone Group Plc and tried to commiserate about the recession , only to be told that business had been going gangbusters for several months , the Tories went looking for green shoots at Micro Focus Plc , only to be told that the UK market was flat on its back , and that it was only foreign sales that were keeping the old Coboller busy . |
| 14 | Mike , however , had travelled north , leaving his pregnant girlfriend with relatives in the safety of a Harare suburb as he went looking for another war . |
| 15 | So a man named Kress ‘ phoned Connors with some yarn , and Connors went looking for me . |
| 16 | We went looking for the river . |
| 17 | Feeling fraudulent , but enjoying himself immensely , Branson went looking for an island . |
| 18 | I went looking for it with my cousin Peter . " |
| 19 | I went looking for a quiet place to sit — while gazing with interest at the multi armed , three-breasted Salmo'kkan dancers being sinuous on a mini-stage when I was frozen in mid stride |
| 20 | I went looking for Mathilda and found her working in the buttery with the other maids . |
| 21 | Some went wide-eyed , some went in search of music , the world of On the Road , some went looking for Ken Kesey 's Merry Pranksters , others for the new politics . |
| 22 | One time , somebody went looking for him all over the place . |
| 23 | B … ’ she began , got herself together from his impudence , and could see no reason not to reveal , ‘ I went looking for somewhere else to live . ’ |
| 24 | I went looking for somewhere cheaper to — ’ |
| 25 | Green activists made some chilling discoveries when they went looking for environmentally friendly fridges . |
| 26 | Fitzormonde went looking for Mowbray and found his corpse . ’ |
| 27 | So I went looking for it and could n't find it ! |
| 28 | He went cruising for boys and had numerous homosexual encounters , usually with complete strangers . |
| 29 | She went to stay with her sister in London , and I went sailing for a week with a colleague from work . |
| 30 | She went to stay with her sister in London , and I went sailing for a week with a colleague from work . |