Example sentences of "[noun prp] went for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arms salesman ; okay the Avenger the Equaliser the Total Fucking Nutter went for the legs too but still , and the editor spiked , and the rapist-lenient judge raped and the pornographer poisoned and stroked and the man who was so callous about the bloodshed in the Iran/Iraq war forced to watch his penned animals die like cattle like soldiers like cattle and then bled to death in his own private fountains of blood and the businessman who put profits before safety and not only helped kill a thousand people but then tried to get out of paying the survivors and dependants any compensation gets his own gas explosion — blevey is the technical term apparently — and fuck me whoever he is ( assuming he is a he ) , he 's got a sense of humour or at least irony why he 's produced what 's almost a snuff video effectively a snuff video if you mean brain-death anyway it 's the closest anyone will admit to ever having seen or found one even the Obscene Pubs Squad who 've been looking for years but although everybody assumes they exist nobody 's ever seen one until old gorilla man comes along and just makes his own , specifically to warn off any other porn merchants thinking of dealing in snuff ! |
| 2 | Kay went for a head-butt on Colin Walsh , who refused to discuss the incident after the match . |
| 3 | Dionne went for the outlaw type , or so she said , then mothered and civilised them until they were unrecognisable , and when her dream of civilised and raunchy equality went out the slammed door , there she was alone again , smoking a little more than usual , drinking a little more than necessary and swearing herself to celibacy until the next sulky brow slouched into view and stole her hopeful heart away . |
| 4 | We got a birdie at the 11th by using the 1-iron when Johnny went for the 3-wood , got on , but not near enough to make the birdie putt . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Alain went for the gap , Steve moved over and Alain locked up the brakes flat-out in top . |
| 7 | As time trouble approached , Short went for a wild kingside attack , but Karpov played well and it was Short 's king which proved the weaker . |
| 8 | I mean Bradford went for the initial |
| 9 | That afternoon Van Cheele went for a walk through his woods . |
| 10 | Finally the Willeys went for a celebration Sunday lunch … and had to make do with cold cuts because there had been a fire in the pub kitchen . |
| 11 | Then Adams hit out at the dismissal of defenceman Mike Ware , saying : ‘ We 're told Mike went for a Fife player — he never hit him . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The result was that the Seayak went for an unscheduled underwater swim round campsite bay . |
| 14 | Mimms went for a cross he was never going to reach , Jason Dozzell helped it on to Kiwomya , and the in-form striker calmly lobbed home the winner past the despairing lunge of Nicky Marker . |
| 15 | Even Samuel Pepys went for an audience : ‘ 23 February , 1668–9 . |
| 16 | Nails took his usual Ford Escort that night from the parking lot outside the gasworks where the night shift was working , the one he had a key for , and he and Gary went for a drive round the back streets where they would n't meet a patrol car , out into the country for ten miles or so and back again . |
| 17 | Two weeks ago Roy and Fiona went for a curry . |
| 18 | Wolves were pressed back into defence , as Oxford went for an all out attack . |
| 19 | After his success in rebuilding morale in Scotland , Chris Green went for the big one — London . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Leeds 's opening try in the 12th minute had also been a fine effort , spread over 70 yards and involving Schofield , Maskill and Izzard before Coleman went for the corner . |
| 22 | Chola went for a third time to fetch some water from the river while Mina and Kāli set to work on the outside of the house . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | SAILOR John Worthington went for a drink — and triggered an air-sea hunt . |
| 25 | When Susan went for an interview for the role , she walked into Peckinpah 's office , where Daniel Melnick , the producer , Dustin and Peckinpah were deep in conversation , ignoring her . |
| 26 | Every night before going to bed , Sir Charles went for a walk in the gardens of Baskerville Hall . |
| 27 | Place was further of the opinion that what he described for London went for the country as a whole . |
| 28 | A couple of his men , apparently under orders from Epitot , were content to follow at a respectful distance as she and Karelius went for a stroll in the city . |
| 29 | Sal went for a subdued but glamorous sparkly hair band and matching lead . |
| 30 | STUDENT John McCoy went for a spin in his car hoping it would make him tired — and plummeted 30ft down a cliff . |