Example sentences of "i went [adv] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went up for a weekend . |
| 2 | I got an elbow in the face as I went up for a header and I remember putting my head down and running straight into Bull 's back . |
| 3 | Nothing much was doing , though , and eventually I went home for a bite to eat and a well-deserved kip . |
| 4 | I went home for a week at the end of July , just in time to see the beginning of this new menace , the V1 buzz bombs and I have to say they completely terrified me . |
| 5 | On the other hand , after a glance at ‘ Luck of the Legion ’ , I went about for a week with a white handkerchief tucked into the back of my cap , ordering the dog to about-face or wooing it with words of French culled from the strip ( ‘ Oo-ee , mon pet it ’ ) . |
| 6 | I went out for a drink just after seven — at the Sir Richard Steele on Haverstock Hill . |
| 7 | I went out for a walk , then picked blackberries on Periton Hill , in that far clump at the edge of the downs . |
| 8 | I went out for a walk because I could n't stand being indoors . |
| 9 | I went out for a walk yesterday . |
| 10 | ‘ I had a cartilage operation three and a half years ago , and I went in for a tackle just before Christmas and damaged it again . |
| 11 | I went in for a tackle with Brian Mooney and I came off worse because I broke my right leg . |
| 12 | While I 'm digging that garden she used to go out roll in the trench what I 'd dug and soon as I went in for a drink she was in there before me ! |
| 13 | I mean , I ended up staying a month at some bloke 's house after I went in for a pack of strings ! |
| 14 | So I went in for a scholarship with the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts . |
| 15 | Eventually the dinner broke up and Claud , Roger Hollis and I went off for a pub-crawl which after sundry indecorous adventures ended up at the Hypocrites where another blind was going on . |
| 16 | And then she was short of a nursing there and then I went there for a bit . |
| 17 | I went there for a week . |
| 18 | ‘ I went back for a couple of months this summer for the first time in four years . |