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

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1 I 've told Pepe to put a notice up that Miguelito has gone for a holiday abroad . ’
2 Call me suspicious , but this implies that the crampon , far from adhering steadily to the spot upon which its owner has chosen to commit his or her weight , has decided it prefers an altogether different rock and has gone for a bit of a slide .
3 Literary criticism is doing here what it often does : it has gone for the faults and , in so doing , inverted the truth .
4 Things had been near perfect at that stage , and they 'd gone for a drink later , with Amanda chatting up the barman who had seemed a nice shy boy , if a bit quiet for the job .
5 she 'd gone for a couple of days when she was up but she says she has n't been up to see her for about eighteen months !
6 Well he told me he 'd gone for a count
7 He said he 'd gone for a count for a job
8 Ash stopped so suddenly I wondered where she 'd gone for a moment .
9 I 'd gone for a walk .
10 Your nanny told me you 'd gone for a walk .
11 She 'd gone for a walk .
12 There they were , they , they 'd gone for a walk round London , and er come back .
13 When that did n't work out he went to Mal at Monad where they 'd gone for the villanelle .
14 I thought you said you 'd gone for the evening , Rosalind . ’
15 If she 'd been at home and beset by devils like this , she would most likely have gone for a walk .
16 He should have gone for a walk on the Downs or gone shopping in the town for antiques , or spent the morning browsing in bookshops .
17 ‘ If they thought the children were in danger they should have gone for a care order in the first place , ’ Levy said .
18 Overturning this residence order the Appeal Court was clear Nottinghamshire SSD should have used the Act 's public law provisions from the outset — it should have gone for a care order or a supervision order , enabling social workers to oversee the children 's welfare .
19 I would have thought you would have gone for a commission .
20 Perhaps you 'd have let me know we could have gone for a beer .
21 It could n't have been hit by a missile because we know there are no missile-carrying planes around — even if there were , a heat-seeking missile , the only type that could nail it at that altitude , would have gone for the engines , not the nose cone .
22 A harsher critic would have gone for the jugular and claimed that this was a blunt reiteration of those dormant adolescent prejudices .
23 He 'd have gone for the Toraja " star funeral " , too , if we only knew when it was happening .
24 so she just told me that so I 'll have all the news of Colin tomorrow they 've gone for a week
25 It was n't exactly square on to the place where Sal 's Golf had gone for a roll , but it was n't far off .
26 Dale 's father , Michael , said the family had gone for a day trip and returned early in the evening .
27 Mr. Lennis sent for me and said that Mr. Andrew was feeling run down , and had gone for a cruise in one of the ships , the Emily T. I kept expecting a letter or a postcard from him , but nothing came .
28 De Gaulle reacted like a sullen schoolboy ; the august professor had gone for a while .
29 The draw for the Mini Cooper was held at Armagh 's Gosford House Hotel where Simon had gone for a night out with his mates .
30 John Mumford had been a curate in the Church of England with a significant ministry and had gone for a year 's sabbatical to California .
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