Example sentences of "[was/were] go for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would you like me to check the mail — or attend to the women who were to go for a bush walk ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ You mean you could n't just say you were going for a walk ? ’ |
| 3 | We thought we were going for a month or so , until the fighting died down . |
| 4 | Jack and Alison were going for a few days to Amsterdam . |
| 5 | Whether they were going for a new place , or staying , the hired hands were all given the day off to attend the Hirings . |
| 6 | He chose a wonderful day , a really glorious day , and we were going for a picnic , there were blue skies and white sand , and he asked me to marry him . |
| 7 | If you were going for a MacDonalds how long do you think it would take ? |
| 8 | But they were going for a walk , they had come in to make him go with them , and they wanted me to go too . |
| 9 | They are increased now obviously but erm , you know to put anything on a tuppeny fare then was well a ha'penny which was twenty five percent on terrible , every year we were going for a fare increase and in those days you really had to go through the Traffic Commissioners . |
| 10 | They were going for a world record … and they got it . |
| 11 | Barry Pexton 45 , a former dog handler in the Sultan of Brunei 's army , and his wife Carol , 38 , left their rented home , West End Cottage , Staxton , near Scarborough , last Wednesday telling their two daughters they were going for a drink . |
| 12 | Erm , what I 'm , I 've just arranged somebody to redo our speaker syste our original system with tannoys , we blew our tannoys speakers , and I did n't bother getting them replaced because we were going for a rock crowd so we just used Bernie and Nigel |
| 13 | Or if they were going for a day then I might go down and |
| 14 | Well were going for a long weekend , like the Bank Holiday weekend . |
| 15 | I think he were going for a , a month , a month and a half summat like that , and he said it were out of this world . |
| 16 | The only thing to do was to go for a walk . |
| 17 | Yes , well up here in Scotland er where I live erm the maincrop variety Golden Wonder tends to certainly need a par boiling and a par boiling only er when cooking so it needs about what five to six minutes or something like that but erm any more and the tatties go to mash and er that 's why I think a lot of the Golden Wonders er in Scotland are cooked in their skins but erm if I was to go for a variety that er I enjoy would be one called Pentland Ivory , it 's a , a nice flowery spud er and you get quite a plentiful supply of them too so it 's quite a good variety but you know the old Kerr 's Pink used to be called I think Henry 's Seedling , I remember rightly and then it changed its name to Kerr 's Pink because Kerr was a seedsman up in who really introduced it and er that was just after the first world war and that 's a good one , that 's a very good one and it 's got that waxy skin as well you see so it might be quite useful . |
| 18 | She was often offered lifts , but when she said , thank you , but she was going for a walk , a pitying expression spread over the faces of the drivers . |
| 19 | You know the last time I went back to Britain , I was going for a month but I changed my flight and left two weeks early . |
| 20 | She had a new child 's seat for her car , the moment she got home , after the flowers for her sister , her young grandson was going for a drive . |
| 21 | Mrs Vowden said Leena was going for a bike ride when the accident happened at 6.10 pm on Wednesday at the junction of Edinburgh Road and Hamilton Road , Newmarket . |
| 22 | The police , having interviewed working colleagues of the victim at the London Docks , had elicited information to the effect that at the end of his shift he met two men outside the gates and said he was going for a drink with them . |
| 23 | He also said he was going for a job that morning . |
| 24 | Lady Eleanor replied she was going for a walk behind the church . ’ |
| 25 | He had spoken with Norman Tebbit who , when asked his movements that evening , said he had discovered in Hove a pub called the ‘ Earl of Essex ’ where he was going for a noggin . |
| 26 | Heydrich did not need to file a flight plan — had no intention of so doing-but he strolled to the control tower to tell them he was going for a spin . |
| 27 | I told everyone I was going for a merit , but it made me feel really good when I got it ! |
| 28 | Mrs Topp , 69 , told the coroner : ‘ He said he was going for a walk around the block to clear his head . |
| 29 | And , oh I did n't tell you this either that she was going for a promotion ! |
| 30 | The candidate thought he was going for an interview to be MD when the client thought he was to meet the proposed finance director . |