Example sentences of "[verb] gone for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The only time I 've ever frozen in an exam was when I 'd gone for three exams solid without kip , one after the other , and I just brain and the other ones were a real struggle and I had to graft my marks out of solid granite y'know I was chiselling away .
2 Why she was here , she could n't imagine ; but her head was clearer than it had been in a long time , which meant that she must have gone for some hours without any kind of an injection .
3 ‘ The sort I could really have gone for twenty years ago . ’
4 To the west , I 've gone for hot reds , yellows and oranges , planting a red-stemmed Cornus alba ‘ Westonbirt ’ to make a fiery contrast with the golden conifer .
5 I had gone for further studies to Pakistan and I got married there .
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