Example sentences of "went [adv prt] for [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when she went down for a cup of tea , her mother mentioned casually that Parr had gone to Belfast , not to England as expected , although she did not know why . |
| 2 | The cloth for their suits was cord ( corduroy ) , as I 've told you ; but sometimes they went in for a suit of heavy tweed — staple tweed it was called ; and at that time they made it as hard as a board . |
| 3 | Schools went in for a lot of physical education , ‘ drill ’ , which involved jumping about in a drafty hall with your skirt tucked into your knickers if you were female . |
| 4 | Fibres also went in for a spot of acquisition , buying into the British texturizing industry to give downstream processing capability . |
| 5 | I mean , I ended up staying a month at some bloke 's house after I went in for a pack of strings ! |
| 6 | Left the daddy 's list with Mr Moore ( of Moore 's Models ) and then went off for a bit of a stroll around . |
| 7 | Yeah I think I 'll walk down to Green went out for a couple of hours in the morning felt grotty did n't go out at all . |
| 8 | His condition is fine and he went out for a breath of fresh air . |
| 9 | ‘ I went back for a couple of months this summer for the first time in four years . |
| 10 | Then it turned around and went back for a drink of water . |
| 11 | He went back for a plate of sandwiches and Melissa was surprised to find that she was hungry . |