Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] went [adv] for [art] " in BNC.

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1 In my own defence I can say only that I went along for the ride , as it were , if you 'll forgive the expression , Mr Milton . ’
2 ‘ It was made in his atelier so I went over for the fittings and in those years I was very sure of myself .
3 It went on and on until I was nearly frantic , so I went out for the evening several times in one week to release the tension .
4 Dr Tehyi Hsieh took five curtain calls after that lecture , and I went back-stage for an interview afterwards .
5 And I went right for the flag .
6 Eventually the dinner broke up and Claud , Roger Hollis and I went off for a pub-crawl which after sundry indecorous adventures ended up at the Hypocrites where another blind was going on .
7 And I went there for a little bit , and then we moved on , moved off from there , do you see ?
8 Amy and I went out for the day .
9 ‘ I had a cartilage operation three and a half years ago , and I went in for a tackle just before Christmas and damaged it again .
10 But then I thought , ‘ I 'll show him , ’ and I went in for the Pub Entertainer of the Year contest .
11 Now if you went out for a ferry , you 'd have one of us guarding the stereo one person on that .
12 I met a friend at the college library and we went out for a coffee .
13 Cos Rita swears she 's been , I mean I was out with her once and we went in for a coffee and we finished , right , and we 're ready to go and I nearly said to her I hate it after you 've finished and Jackie lights up and then I have to sit there while she has a fag
14 ‘ We were staying in a hotel in Maidstone and we went back for a meal , then later , about tennish , we sneaked back to see if there was anything going down .
15 And we went there for the Christmas one did n't we ?
16 All three of us if we went up for a weekend .
17 It might be needed if they went out for the day .
18 His condition is fine and he went out for a breath of fresh air .
19 but I went straight for the directory .
20 But he went along for the ride , hoping he could put his spoke in and cancel the idea .
21 I mean , I ended up staying a month at some bloke 's house after I went in for a pack of strings !
22 just before you went upstairs for a bath
23 She was spending the night with him before he went off for a walking weekend in Derbyshire .
24 when I went in for the steamer
25 I got an elbow in the face as I went up for a header and I remember putting my head down and running straight into Bull 's back .
26 While I 'm digging that garden she used to go out roll in the trench what I 'd dug and soon as I went in for a drink she was in there before me !
27 And when she went down for a cup of tea , her mother mentioned casually that Parr had gone to Belfast , not to England as expected , although she did not know why .
28 On the rare occasions when we went away for a fortnight — to my grandfather 's dank cottage on the Welsh border , land of the slate grey sky — I could hardly wait to get back and listen to the two-weeks ' worth of messages crammed on my answering machine .
29 In the final between Bridgend and Gloucester , after a flash of brilliance from Glen Webbe towards the end when he went over for a magnificent try and another brilliant individual effort by him when he sent over Mark Jones , Bridgend clinched a 22–12 victory .
30 Widnes substitute Emosi Koloto scattered a couple of Northern defenders as he went over for a try in the 39th minute .
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