Example sentences of "[verb] gone for a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Rutger here has gone for a tight , hard , back pickup sound ideally suited to the staccato style he uses , and note the contrast between the sparse verse and much busier chorus patterns . |
2 | They could have gone for a potential Test candidate — like Essex left-arm paceman Mark Ilott . |
3 | or surely we 'd have gone for a different lot , |
4 | Odd really , for a couple of Manchester-based people who 've gone for a progressive soul angle and eschewed any trendy trip . |
5 | The night before , I had gone for a long , lonely walk along the banks of the Tormes , crossing and recrossing the Roman bridge , hoping against hope that I might somehow find you also walking there . |
6 | Alexandra had gone for a long walk before replying to this letter . |
7 | It had been rather an expensive one as he had gone for a fleecy-lined designer number with flashes of blue , to match his eyes , on the shoulders and down the legs . |
8 | He had gone for a short walk over some fields — his constitutional — and had met a woman pushing a bicycle . |
9 | The successors to Martin Sadler 's company have gone for a whole new line of Stephen Jones-designed boats , making the Tony Castro-designed boat surplus to requirements . |
10 | It 's gone for a big six-cylinder , turbocharged 2. litre diesel engine under the bonnet . |