Example sentences of "[pers pn] went [adv] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went home for a week at the end of July , just in time to see the beginning of this new menace , the V1 buzz bombs and I have to say they completely terrified me . |
| 2 | Nothing much was doing , though , and eventually I went home for a bite to eat and a well-deserved kip . |
| 3 | During the war I worked for the women 's voluntary service and shortly afterwards I went abroad for a few years , returning in the late 1940s , divorced with three children . |
| 4 | And I went there for a little bit , and then we moved on , moved off from there , do you see ? |
| 5 | And then she was short of a nursing there and then I went there for a bit . |
| 6 | I went there for a week . |
| 7 | just before you went upstairs for a bath |
| 8 | ‘ Well , she went just for a lark , y'know , but this Mabel , she 's very serious , never got married , y'know — not surprisin' either when you see 'er in a strong light . |
| 9 | She went inside for a moment , because she loved old things — and St Peter 's , Overclyst , was very old indeed . |
| 10 | On the rare occasions when we went away for a fortnight — to my grandfather 's dank cottage on the Welsh border , land of the slate grey sky — I could hardly wait to get back and listen to the two-weeks ' worth of messages crammed on my answering machine . |
| 11 | Did we go I er I 'm now I 'm pretty sure we went home for a seven and a half hour day in twenty one , pretty sure that 's what one of the things that we did . |
| 12 | At Easter we went there for a holiday , and often have since . |
| 13 | We used to , we , I used to go when my husband was alive we used to go to erm Devon cos I had a brother living in Devon we used to go there , but er unfortunately I lost him when he was only fifty with a coronary , and so erm , in , cos and after that I lost my husband you see so cos we I 've never been away like that before , not , not since , years ago that was , he 's been gone twenty one years this Christmas sixteenth might be so , I 've not been able to so I , I , I go with the erm , I went with the Red Cross this year the year before last I went erm er , Char Charlie took me away we went to er a chalet we stayed at and er a friend of mine we went there for a week had a week there , that poured of rain every day , this year it poured of rain every day |
| 14 | I spent hours and hours around the flat , back of Kings College , Cambridge and er , you see and we , we went sometimes for a service . |
| 15 | Having got to Bristol , he went home for a short holiday and died . |
| 16 | When he finished he went home for a rest . |