Example sentences of "[vb past] go [adv] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | how much was n't held until after I 'd gone up for the money for Matthew 's back . |
| 2 | I assaulted this position from every angle , ranging from thoughtful analyses of the male mid-life crisis , its nature and origins , to sweeping ad absurdum dismissals in which I demonstrated that by the same token Trish and Brian were equally culpable , because if they 'd gone out for the day I would have stayed at home and we would never have met in the first place . |
| 3 | Started as they meant to go on for the holiday . |
| 4 | Not Adam Burns , though — oh no , he had to go straight for the jugular . |
| 5 | True to his brother 's word , David had gone straight for the fish cakes . |
| 6 | Mary and Reggie had gone away for the weekend , and would not be back until evening . |
| 7 | Yet nothing had gone right for the crusade . |
| 8 | The driver of the van had been wanted for questioning , and the way CI5 had gone in for the arrest had clearly been the direct cause of the van 's destruction on the hot end of the booby-trap bomb it had been carrying . |
| 9 | What I had meant to say was that he was being inducted as a churchwarden , and the two of them had gone off for the ceremony — my friend was having a busy day ! |