Example sentences of "went for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The Italians were bigger , stronger and older than us but in the end we just went for their throats . |
| 2 | By the third day they were quarrelling openly and at times so fiercely that the knights standing around went for their swords . |
| 3 | She was sitting hunched up on one of the two comfortable chairs in the cubby-hole where the staff went for their breaks . |
| 4 | The first sign was slogans daubed on the wall of a kuttub , a religious school where small children went for their first instruction in the Koran . |
| 5 | Typified by Babington , who went for one , tried for 2 , but was run out for 6 . |
| 6 | Robinson went for one big hit too many … a real skier which was well caught … by Gary Black … then Boon was caught … 117 he 'd made … this was his last stroke … |
| 7 | He just managed to resist adding , ‘ Yours is twenty , and I would have thought the same went for her too . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Seeing that Mother Hampton was dead-drunk under the table at the Jolly Waterman when Rose Bailey went for her , a fine job she would have made of it . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Is that the one whose husband went for her with a chopper ? ’ |
| 10 | How it went for me ! ! i.e. A personal experience . |
| 11 | For him Plymouth was the worst , and that went for me too . |
| 12 | Then he went for me . |
| 13 | They went for him then , Alexander and Donald McLaggan , the Duke 's two sons , dragged him from his father 's side so that his head bounced on the steps , lifted him bleeding , like foresters keeping a dying deer clear of the hounds , and started to carry him down to the river ‘ just to cool him off ’ but Cameron ran and gripped Donald 's shoulder and shouted , ‘ If you injure an officer it is treason on top of sedition , ’ so they carried him back and laid him carefully at his father 's feet . |
| 14 | Well , he fired a pistol and someone went for him with the blade of a scythe . ’ |
| 15 | When he was near enough she went for him with clawed hands . |
| 16 | He had begun by putting Maldita in a stable with no straw and taking water and feed to her every eight hours , then , when she went for him , immediately removing them . |
| 17 | But anyway I flared up and said that sort of remark was what we were supposed to be fighting the war about and I went for him . |
| 18 | Benjamin went for him . |
| 19 | When they eventually went for him , at the end of 1986 , they were pipped by Somerset . |
| 20 | And then she went for him , her voice trembling , her eyes staring with sudden hate , all the Latin in her coming out as she ripped his hand from her shoulder . |
| 21 | She went for him now , on the grassy river bank , surprising staider strolling couples . |
| 22 | ‘ Why the hell else do you think I went for him ? |
| 23 | ‘ I really went for him and felt rather sorry for it afterwards . |
| 24 | A number than went for him and it was then Mr Johnson brandished a kitchen knife . |
| 25 | You pushed him in the chest with your hand and then you went for him trying to slash him . |
| 26 | And as I 've said before , you know , we 've talked a lot about Primmer with Bob Dugard erm so we went for him . |
| 27 | Parke thought the old version was ‘ a bit Seventies ’ , and went for something ‘ more authoritative ’ ( below ) . |
| 28 | When Katharine went for her lesson with Jennie , she had n't ridden since Christmas and was concerned that she would be very stiff and rusty . |
| 29 | A capacity crowd of nearly 6,500 — including King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia — went wild as their 28-year-old world champion went for her own golden bid . |
| 30 | On Christmas night Ruth went for her nightly bath and came out in her nightdress . |