Example sentences of "have go [adv] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 BOXER Michael Watson has gone home for a family Christmas to help with his recovery .
3 As you may already realise , once again the Almeida has gone in for a lot of posh posturing got up as a drama of social consciousness .
4 how much was n't held until after I 'd gone up for the money for Matthew 's back .
5 Then they 'd gone in for a look .
6 She wondered if the others were playing a joke on her : perhaps they 'd gone out for a walk ; perhaps , at this very moment , they were laughing at the thought of her waiting for a killer who would never come .
7 I had this octopus once in Germany and it , we 'd gone out for a meal and I was gon na have steak and mushrooms and
8 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 .
9 For once the preciseness of the words did not irritate Aggie , and she answered gently , ‘ I 'm sorry , love , but … but she 's had to go away for a day or two . ’
10 Jean Parmiter sent her apologies for being unable to teach as arranged ; she and her husband had had to go away for the weekend .
11 I 'd say we 'll have to do more than that , I 'd say we 'll have to go down for a week .
12 yeah so I mean he said we 're gon na have to go out for a drink and sit down and discuss it , you know
13 it 's no good I 'm gon na have to go out for a breath of fresh air .
14 So they all must have gone out for the dinner .
15 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 .
16 ‘ I 'm going to have to go out for a while . ’
17 ‘ It would have been just like Jean to have gone along for the journey . ’
18 We 're chasing up two other people who were at that party , and who both seem to have gone out for the day .
19 Not Adam Burns , though — oh no , he had to go straight for the jugular .
20 ‘ She had to go out for a moment . ’
21 The House of Lords allowed the defendant 's appeal with the result that the case had to go back for a retrial eleven years after the plaintiff had suffered damage .
22 She had been accepted for the job at Ardis & Co , looking the way she normally looked , but if to keep her job — and she had no idea at that stage whether there was a Vasey junior , or similar , at G Vasey Ltd — she had to go in for a bit of de glamorisation , then so be it .
23 They 've gone out for a walk to have a cigar but as far we 're concerned they 're not having a cigar .
24 Well , we 've done that , as we said we would and of course , in a business such as Pearson , which is a people business er , although we regularly monitor employment statistics , such as total employ total number of employees er , revenue per employee , cost per employee , profit per employee , there are times when we have to take er , difficult decisions and er , so we 've gone in for a lot of redundancy , which we 'll see in , in er during the next slide or two .
25 I was surprised , for I had lost all count of time and had felt it had gone on for a week .
26 True to his brother 's word , David had gone straight for the fish cakes .
27 He says a boy had gone away for a weekend and had come back to the school with the tablets and then sold them .
28 If I had gone away for a couple of days , I returned expecting almost to have to push the door open but to my amazement , the place was immaculate .
29 She told him in fact that Dinah had gone away for a day or two , but shortly a letter came .
30 It was sent to Alison 's brother , Mark , and implied that she and their father had gone away for a break as both were suffering from depression .
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