Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] went for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richard Scott went for nought , caught out and caught behind , thanks to the pace of Bishop . |
| 2 | Richard Allen went for a bike tide round his home village of Lyonshall in Herefordshire today ; a form of exercise up until now he could only dream about . |
| 3 | Van Gogh went for sunflowers … and Turner liked a nice boat … but these are the favoured subject of Huang Youngping . |
| 4 | LIVERPOOL soccer manager Graeme Souness went for a drive with his girlfriend yesterday as he continued his recovery from a triple heart by-pass operation . |
| 5 | Even Samuel Pepys went for an audience : ‘ 23 February , 1668–9 . |
| 6 | I thought Uncle Keith went for it once ? |
| 7 | Every night before going to bed , Sir Charles went for a walk in the gardens of Baskerville Hall . |
| 8 | That afternoon Van Cheele went for a walk through his woods . |
| 9 | On Christmas night Ruth went for her nightly bath and came out in her nightdress . |
| 10 | ‘ Seeing that Mother Hampton was dead-drunk under the table at the Jolly Waterman when Rose Bailey went for her , a fine job she would have made of it . ’ |
| 11 | An oil , ‘ Beach scene ’ , by Gladys Macabe went for £250 while a watercolour , ‘ village scene ’ , by Olive Henry made £100 . |
| 12 | Last night Mowbray went for his usual walk on the parapet between the Salt and Broad Arrow Towers . |
| 13 | A detached two- bedroomed town house in the capital Wellington went for £18,500 . |
| 14 | An old suit belonging to the late Freddie Mercury went for £2,640 . |
| 15 | Anxious about his prospects of liberation , the slave Moschos went for a night of incubation to the temple and had a dream in which the divine pair Amphiaraus and Hygieia ordered him to write down what he had seen and to set it up in stone by the altar . |
| 16 | In that year 's elections McCarthy went for Senator Tydings of Maryland , who had pronounced him a fraud , with typical unscrupulousness . |
| 17 | She could n't care less what type of woman Guy Sterne went for . |
| 18 | Comedians Griff Rhys Jones and Mel Smith went for huge belly laughs as they poked fun at ‘ a small group of people for whom this has been a terrible year — the British tabloid journalists ’ . |
| 19 | Watson 's replacement Chris Pringle went for 50 in his first 11 overs , and England were away , never to be caught . |
| 20 | After his success in rebuilding morale in Scotland , Chris Green went for the big one — London . |
| 21 | Ian Baird went for it and missed , but his flight across John Burridge 's line of vision made things awkward for the Hibs goalkeeper who was caught off balance as the ball came through , bounced off his shoulder and into the net . |
| 22 | Rachel Billington went for Powell and Iris Murdoch ( ‘ If we 're talking about pushing forward the boundaries of the novel ’ ) . |
| 23 | ONE SUMMER in 1920 , while staying with the Morells at Garsington , the late Percy Feilding went for a drive around Oxfordshire , and miles up a cart track , purely by chance , he found Beckley . |
| 24 | SAILOR John Worthington went for a drink — and triggered an air-sea hunt . |
| 25 | Dave Rogers went for broke … went for the line on his own and made it … a great effort but Coventry held on to win by thirty four points to fifteen … |
| 26 | STUDENT John McCoy went for a spin in his car hoping it would make him tired — and plummeted 30ft down a cliff . |