Example sentences of "i went [adv prt] for [art] [noun] " 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 ‘ It was made in his atelier so I went over for the fittings and in those years I was very sure of myself .
4 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 ’ ) .
5 I went out for a drink just after seven — at the Sir Richard Steele on Haverstock Hill .
6 I went out for a walk , then picked blackberries on Periton Hill , in that far clump at the edge of the downs .
7 I went out for a walk because I could n't stand being indoors .
8 I went out for a walk yesterday .
9 I went out for the day , and came back to find the room full of thick smoke from Holmes ' pipe .
10 Amy and I went out for the day .
11 It went on and on until I was nearly frantic , so I went out for the evening several times in one week to release the tension .
12 ‘ 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 .
13 I went in for a tackle with Brian Mooney and I came off worse because I broke my right leg .
14 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 !
15 I mean , I ended up staying a month at some bloke 's house after I went in for a pack of strings !
16 So I went in for a scholarship with the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts .
17 But then I thought , ‘ I 'll show him , ’ and I went in for the Pub Entertainer of the Year contest .
18 when I went in for the steamer
19 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 .
20 I went back for a couple of months this summer for the first time in four years .
21 One enterprising young man gathered 60 ration books into his brief-case and persuaded an RCAF pilot , due for a recognizance flight that day , to fly him several hundred miles across the provincial border to Atlin , B.C. At the friendly invitation of those concerned I went along for the ride and helped my energetic friends load five cases of Johnny Walker , which we transported back to Whitehorse well in time for a Saturday night party .
22 I went along for the ride ; Mrs Goreng needed moral support and a straight guy to conduct an emergency dialogue with , if the need arose .
23 In my own defence I can say only that I went along for the ride , as it were , if you 'll forgive the expression , Mr Milton . ’
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