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

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1 The club went for another batsman instead , and that 's why I was intent on resigning .
2 But if even if one was late from for school , he had a monitor on the doors to the outside world and when the whistle went for nine o'clock that door was closed and there The boys marshalled in the yard to er get in the lines and marched to the classes .
3 There had been no third man all day as Crowe attacked , and those edges which eluded the close field went for fours .
4 The government went for both at once .
5 But after a time , as County Bank went for larger and larger transactions , Mr Wilson , who has a penchant for smaller companies , wanted to get involved in small development capital transactions and smaller management buy-outs .
6 The Bulls Head in Hereford found a buyer at £100,000 pounds and the Burley Gate Inn in the city went for 120,000 .
7 The house , thought to be worth about £3,000 by the lawyers , in fact went for less .
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