Example sentences of "[pron] go [adv] for the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 I went yesterday for the first time .
2 It 's the relationship between the client and the advertiser which goes on for the next two years .
3 She went home for the first time after twelve weeks … but she 's been in and out of the unit constantly ever since .
4 More than 20 years since he started flying , he went solo for the first time .
5 ‘ When you 've finished , it 'll look like a snooker table , ’ he said cheerfully , and , reversing deftly , he went back for the next lot .
6 We then hit him over the head with the punt-pole and paddled off out of range of his piteously outstretched hands , cackling demonically as he went down for the third time .
7 And so it went on for the first 14 years of their friendship .
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