Example sentences of "had go [adv] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not Adam Burns , though — oh no , he had to go straight for the jugular . |
| 2 | ‘ She had to go out for a moment . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I was surprised , for I had lost all count of time and had felt it had gone on for a week . |
| 6 | True to his brother 's word , David had gone straight for the fish cakes . |
| 7 | He says a boy had gone away for a weekend and had come back to the school with the tablets and then sold them . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She told him in fact that Dinah had gone away for a day or two , but shortly a letter came . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Mary and Reggie had gone away for the weekend , and would not be back until evening . |
| 12 | Yet nothing had gone right for the crusade . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The driver of the van had been wanted for questioning , and the way CI5 had gone in for the arrest had clearly been the direct cause of the van 's destruction on the hot end of the booby-trap bomb it had been carrying . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | What I had meant to say was that he was being inducted as a churchwarden , and the two of them had gone off for the ceremony — my friend was having a busy day ! |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | She assumed he had gone out for a reason but became worried and phoned a friend . |