Example sentences of "[noun] have go [adv prt] for [art] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ It would have been just like Jean to have gone along for the journey . ’
2 It was dusk , and the evening was as still and airless as the previous one when , impatient for news , Zen had gone out for a stroll .
3 It had not been lived in recently it had none of that slight warmth of humanity you find in a dwelling whose inhabitant has gone out for the day .
4 A Teesside inquest heard how Wayne had gone out for a spin in the W-reg white Ford Escort with four pals in November last year .
5 As you may already realise , once again the Almeida has gone in for a lot of posh posturing got up as a drama of social consciousness .
6 I kept just killing time until it had gone eleven o'clock and all the cinema-goers had gone in for the late shows , at which point I decided to call it a day .
7 with , with , with it , with it before I actually got involved after negotiations had gone through for the remo for the moving of the tenants .
8 The House of Lords allowed the defendant 's appeal with the result that the case had to go back for a retrial eleven years after the plaintiff had suffered damage .
9 The grown ups having gone out for the evening we then kept awake alternately for half-hour shifts by one of the boy 's watches until at long last we were rewarded by the sound of creaking and thumps from the stairs , accompanied by slurry avuncular curses and " shushes " from the aunts .
10 Furthermore , he contests , costs at the company have gone up for the simple reason that it has moved into different areas of activity — IBM simply made the mistake of trying to be ‘ all things to all people ’ , and so will never be able to return to the profit levels of the mid-1980s .
11 Dad 's gone up for a bath . ’
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