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Example sentences of "[verb] gone for [adj] " in BNC.

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1	Not surprisingly , Reilly has gone for tried and tested players , with few surprises , as he prepares for the most important assignment in his five-year international coaching reign .
2	Following that , comes a period of despair and depression when the truth finally dawns that the loved one has gone for good .
3	When the great house becomes the possession of a nation , it can more easily be accepted as ‘ a noble picture ’ , ‘ a history in stone ’ , preserving in art , if not in life , that radiant aspect of Chesney Wold as Esther first sees it , that remembered notion of human community which has gone for good .
4	‘ But I 'm afraid it seems the sock money has gone for good .
5	But while the roar of aircraft has gone for good , the station will live on .
6	Erm I know the Conversatives have also has gone for one three and not for two .
7	The latest study has gone for first-hand evidence , by looking at Inland Revenue figures for bequeathed estates , and by conducting a couple of sample surveys .
8	‘ It were a night like this when your mother went off , lass , and Jake near lost his mind when he knew she 'd gone for good .
9	There was n't a note , but he knew she 'd gone for good .
10	She looked me up and down and adjusted my tie an inch or so ( I 'd gone for green silk and I now had two ties ) , then said :
11	The only time I 've ever frozen in an exam was when I 'd gone for three exams solid without kip , one after the other , and I just brain and the other ones were a real struggle and I had to graft my marks out of solid granite y'know I was chiselling away .
12	Should have gone for two should n't I ?
13	The yellow card for a foul on Jochim and but Laws will be relieved he certainly could have gone for that .
14	Yes you did it was er the advertisement I 'd seen or very similar in the Scotsman newspaper and I must admit when he got all the information I thought damn I should have gone for that myself .
15	Why she was here , she could n't imagine ; but her head was clearer than it had been in a long time , which meant that she must have gone for some hours without any kind of an injection .
16	‘ The sort I could really have gone for twenty years ago . ’
17	Even when Vinnie left — although we sold him for either what we bought him , or maybe 50 grand more , he had a very good season at Leeds , proved he could play a bit , he should have gone for more .
18	To the west , I 've gone for hot reds , yellows and oranges , planting a red-stemmed Cornus alba ‘ Westonbirt ’ to make a fiery contrast with the golden conifer .
19	But Hodkinson admitted last night : ‘ When Colin lost his title to Palecio , I thought a fight against him had gone for good .
20	Habsburgs and Hohenzollerns were back in their palaces , but France 's king had gone for good .
21	Sylvia Dick is finally reunited with the car she thought had gone for good .
22	The television nasties we all thought had gone for good are here again and age has n't improved them .
23	I had gone for that X-ray in a state of anxious calm .
24	When Tallis went quickly to the long-house , where Wynne-Jones had gone for extra safety , she found him huddled in a corner , shaking violently , his body wrapped in skins and his bird-feather cloak .
25	I had gone for further studies to Pakistan and I got married there .
26	The chill that had gone for these brief seconds settled again .
27	Wood died 19 December 1865 at 49 Sussex Gardens , Hyde Park , London , where he had gone for medical advice , and was buried in the churchyard at Hetton .
28	Charles Eldred-Evans , for the Red Cross , said : ‘ Provided they have gone for good , that would be a big step along the road to resolving the problem .
29	H B F have gone for four point four five percent .
30	Smith , in India to watch both the Madras match and Friday 's final Test at Bombay said : ‘ One of the big reasons we have gone for four-day championship cricket is that it will encourage spinners to play a bigger part in our domestic game . ’