Example sentences of "we went [adv] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 On the rare occasions when we went away for a fortnight — to my grandfather 's dank cottage on the Welsh border , land of the slate grey sky — I could hardly wait to get back and listen to the two-weeks ' worth of messages crammed on my answering machine .
2 And erm and then we went and got my fruit and veg and then we went in Top Marks and got them so we never got we went through for a video really , never got round to looking for a video did we ?
3 All three of us if we went up for a weekend .
4 Cos Rita swears she 's been , I mean I was out with her once and we went in for a coffee and we finished , right , and we 're ready to go and I nearly said to her I hate it after you 've finished and Jackie lights up and then I have to sit there while she has a fag
5 At Easter we went there for a holiday , and often have since .
6 We used to , we , I used to go when my husband was alive we used to go to erm Devon cos I had a brother living in Devon we used to go there , but er unfortunately I lost him when he was only fifty with a coronary , and so erm , in , cos and after that I lost my husband you see so cos we I 've never been away like that before , not , not since , years ago that was , he 's been gone twenty one years this Christmas sixteenth might be so , I 've not been able to so I , I , I go with the erm , I went with the Red Cross this year the year before last I went erm er , Char Charlie took me away we went to er a chalet we stayed at and er a friend of mine we went there for a week had a week there , that poured of rain every day , this year it poured of rain every day
7 ‘ We were staying in a hotel in Maidstone and we went back for a meal , then later , about tennish , we sneaked back to see if there was anything going down .
8 I spent hours and hours around the flat , back of Kings College , Cambridge and er , you see and we , we went sometimes for a service .
9 We went out for a day — and a night — then he disappeared in a cloud of smoke to get the ferry at Dover .
10 Ch king prawn chow mein with the noodles and stuff and he had whip marks all over him but anyway I ate all that and I did n't have a sweet , , did n't have a sweet and I we went out for a while and on the way home
11 We went out for a lunch that was late even by Madrid standards , then went to a zarzueia .
12 We went out for a meal , and when he took me home he wanted to come in .
13 I met a friend at the college library and we went out for a coffee .
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