Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] for a [noun sg] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Troubled Mr Major yesterday headed for a showdown with Euro-rebels by announcing he would put the Maastricht Treaty before Parliament around Christmas . |
| 2 | And , since you asked , she once went for a policeman with her stilettoes as he tried to bundle a black man into a car outside a dance hall on the bottom of the Tottenham Court Road ( derogatory remarks in that department were still more likely to earn a black eye than a black look in The Bar ) . |
| 3 | Mr Purtill also posed for a picture with Mr Major , managing to rustle up a sheepish grin . |
| 4 | ‘ I really came for a word with Miss Passmore , but if she does n't mind you hearing what I have to say … ’ |
| 5 | I think he actually went for a walk with Brian . |