Example sentences of "gone [adv] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet nothing had gone right for the crusade . |
| 2 | Since then , for the thirteen years since Kapuscinski 's departure , things have gone badly for the Angolans , and they are still suffering terribly . |
| 3 | The idea seemed to fit Lucy 's current expression , as though all hands had already gone down for the third time . |
| 4 | I kept just killing time until it had gone eleven o'clock and all the cinema-goers had gone in for the late shows , at which point I decided to call it a day . |
| 5 | None of the European resorts has yet gone in for the wholesale investment in snow-making which we see in the United States , mainly because the capital outlay is enormous and the running costs extremely high . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I 've trained her , but she has n't gone in for the exams . |
| 8 | ‘ It would have been just like Jean to have gone along for the journey . ’ |
| 9 | In the second incident , involving the credit card , he had only gone along for the ride , and had not used the card himself , said Mr Harper . |
| 10 | She and had obviously gone away for the weekend . |
| 11 | Mary and Reggie had gone away for the weekend , and would not be back until evening . |
| 12 | with , with , with it , with it before I actually got involved after negotiations had gone through for the remo for the moving of the tenants . |
| 13 | 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 ! |
| 14 | People like EMF and Jesus Jones have had a go , but they 've always gone more for the rock aspect , with the technology just tagged on as an afterthought . |
| 15 | True to his brother 's word , David had gone straight for the fish cakes . |
| 16 | Furthermore , he contests , costs at the company have gone up for the simple reason that it has moved into different areas of activity — IBM simply made the mistake of trying to be ‘ all things to all people ’ , and so will never be able to return to the profit levels of the mid-1980s . |
| 17 | how much was n't held until after I 'd gone up for the money for Matthew 's back . |
| 18 | But I think they 'd just gone back for the money creed and once you get that well erm they do n't realize that they could be falling into the trap unless we blokes stand firm now to maintain this standard of living . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | We 're chasing up two other people who were at that party , and who both seem to have gone out for the day . |
| 21 | The grown ups having gone out for the evening we then kept awake alternately for half-hour shifts by one of the boy 's watches until at long last we were rewarded by the sound of creaking and thumps from the stairs , accompanied by slurry avuncular curses and " shushes " from the aunts . |
| 22 | It had not been lived in recently it had none of that slight warmth of humanity you find in a dwelling whose inhabitant has gone out for the day . |
| 23 | I phoned Kevin , I 've got Kevin 's mum and dad 's phone number off Dave and phoned at home but he 's gone out for the day or something they said . |
| 24 | So they all must have gone out for the dinner . |
| 25 | I was actually erm born in although most of is gone now for the development of the grounds . |
| 26 | or if they were going to the university they would n't of gone there for the interview |