Example sentences of "have go [adv] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BOXER Michael Watson has gone home for a family Christmas to help with his recovery . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Then they 'd gone in for a look . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | I 'd say we 'll have to do more than that , I 'd say we 'll have to go down for a week . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | it 's no good I 'm gon na have to go out for a breath of fresh air . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm going to have to go out for a while . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ She had to go out for a moment . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | They 've gone out for a walk to have a cigar but as far we 're concerned they 're not having a cigar . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I was surprised , for I had lost all count of time and had felt it had gone on for a week . |
| 17 | He says a boy had gone away for a weekend and had come back to the school with the tablets and then sold them . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | She told him in fact that Dinah had gone away for a day or two , but shortly a letter came . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He had watched until the night nurse had left the office and now he was as sure as he could be that she had gone below for a meal . |
| 22 | It was a small grave , and at its head was a low wooden cross inscribed with his name , date of birth , and date of death ; and as I passed , I had a vision of a little Aberdeen terrier who had gone off for a run by himself , and was now sporting in the fields of Paradise . |
| 23 | It was dusk , and the evening was as still and airless as the previous one when , impatient for news , Zen had gone out for a stroll . |
| 24 | A Teesside inquest heard how Wayne had gone out for a spin in the W-reg white Ford Escort with four pals in November last year . |
| 25 | She assumed he had gone out for a reason but became worried and phoned a friend . |
| 26 | Josie glanced at the old folding travel alarm that she kept open on the makeup table , and said , ‘ I have to go somewhere for a minute . |
| 27 | Dad 's gone up for a bath . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ He 's gone away for a while . ’ |
| 29 | He 's gone out for a while . |
| 30 | Now let's keep reminding you about the time situation , sixty five minutes gone , Shrewsbury have another twenty five minutes in which to hang on here , it 's Shrewsbury three , Blackburn Rovers two , it 's gon na be a nervous evening here for the normally placid Shropshire folk at as that ball is headed forward by and here 's , again in field to , clipped forward for Mike , here comes advancing towards the edge of the penalty area , he 's got ta try and get past the brick wall of , and it 's now who tries to release down the right hand side , he 's got ta get past , he does so , he gets the ball across and that one is cleared importantly by only as far as who tries to hook it back in and that the ball would n't reach him and it would n't reach either and it 's gone out for a goal kick to Shrewsbury . |