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Example sentences of "[pron] went for [adj] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Arthur and I went for long walks — and that little village was the best place in the world .
2	Pc Birtwell , 44 , an officer for six years , said last night : ‘ I went for one of them with my stick .
3	I I I went for four .
4	I went for four he said he said zilch .
5	No actually I went for four to one Oxford , but tonight I 'm going to go for Port Vale two , Oxford United two .
6	I could have done with it , I could n't get on the bloo they got this internal bus service that runs from each college , cos you have to go to the other colleges for your lectures , and I just sort , there 's not enough , and you , you get turned away , and I just thought , I went for that bus Tuesday morning , I was supposed to get it at eight fifteen , and he just said sorry , no more room .
7	Again the one who 's been around ( you can tell her type a mile off — they always find something to send back , even if it 's the salt ) ordered the better meal : a pan-fried fillet steak topped with tomato and served with a Madiera sauce , while I went for fresh halibut wrapped in vegetables surrounded by creamy mustard sauce .
8	As I went for vigorous afternoon walks along the footpath by the half-frozen river or across the frosty fields and up the sheep-tracks on to the hills and the bare moors beyond .
9	Well as I say I went for this interview and she phoned me last Sunday did n't she ?
10	I mean she said to me when I went for this Men Mencap job she said erm , have you got any trade behind you ?
11	Why did you go on about that erm place where you went for that beer and you know , you said that we worked for that
12	You 're gon na go in at th you went for four ?
13	And almost every day she went for long walks on the moors with her dog , Keeper .
14	She went for long solitary hikes along well-marked trails .
15	When we went for that there
16	When I found it , there was an argument and we went for each other . ’
17	Suppose we went for this drink and the Hobbs greeted us ?
18	Each time we went for another animal all those left howled and fought their chains to get close to us so as not to be left behind .
19	Notorious was his initial estimate of reparations to be extracted from Germany — £20 billion — ‘ and if anybody went for forty billions , I should not disbelieve him ’ .
20	‘ I think that they got a bit carried away , ’ she laughs , ‘ I 'm not sure why they went for that word exactly .
21	I am just appalled that it 's so easy , obviously , to get into these er accounts and and the health records as well , er I mean there really bright here , Mr has no criminal record , I do n't know where they went for that , it 's true , it 's nice to have it er made public but er where did they go to get that information ?
22	Sometimes they went for two months without talking .
23	They went for small-scale figures , often made to appear more youthful than the subject allowed .
24	They will be worse for frail , elderly people , for physically and mentally disabled people , and I think people will also be asking the Tory and Liberal Democrat groups why they went for half a million pounds less than they need have done in service provision .
25	They went for more , but Nicky Hammond in the Town goal made sure they did n't have too many happy returns .
26	Going in at No. 10 , he raced to 55 off the bowling of Hall , Watson , Worrell ( whom he hit for six ) and Ramadhin , before Valentine bowled him as he went for another big hit .
27	He was drilling the car through a bend at 90mph when he went for third gear — and hit first at 7,000 revs .
28	He was at school at Uppingham ; then , suffering from asthma , he went for three years to Australia ( 1884–6 ) .
29	And that she said was repossessed and it went for seventy five thousand .
30	David Lloyd , his captain at Lancashire , tells a story that once in a Gillette Cup match against Gloucestershire at Old Trafford , Clive Lloyd edged a ball from Mike Procter so hard that it went for six .