Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] went for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Van Gogh went for sunflowers … and Turner liked a nice boat … but these are the favoured subject of Huang Youngping . |
| 2 | An oil , ‘ Beach scene ’ , by Gladys Macabe went for £250 while a watercolour , ‘ village scene ’ , by Olive Henry made £100 . |
| 3 | A detached two- bedroomed town house in the capital Wellington went for £18,500 . |
| 4 | An old suit belonging to the late Freddie Mercury went for £2,640 . |
| 5 | In that year 's elections McCarthy went for Senator Tydings of Maryland , who had pronounced him a fraud , with typical unscrupulousness . |
| 6 | Rachel Billington went for Powell and Iris Murdoch ( ‘ If we 're talking about pushing forward the boundaries of the novel ’ ) . |