Example sentences of "[pers pn] went [adv prt] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was made in his atelier so I went over for the fittings and in those years I was very sure of myself . |
| 2 | It went on and on until I was nearly frantic , so I went out for the evening several times in one week to release the tension . |
| 3 | I went out for the day , and came back to find the room full of thick smoke from Holmes ' pipe . |
| 4 | Amy and I went out for the day . |
| 5 | But then I thought , ‘ I 'll show him , ’ and I went in for the Pub Entertainer of the Year contest . |
| 6 | when I went in for the steamer |
| 7 | One enterprising young man gathered 60 ration books into his brief-case and persuaded an RCAF pilot , due for a recognizance flight that day , to fly him several hundred miles across the provincial border to Atlin , B.C. At the friendly invitation of those concerned I went along for the ride and helped my energetic friends load five cases of Johnny Walker , which we transported back to Whitehorse well in time for a Saturday night party . |
| 8 | I went along for the ride ; Mrs Goreng needed moral support and a straight guy to conduct an emergency dialogue with , if the need arose . |
| 9 | In my own defence I can say only that I went along for the ride , as it were , if you 'll forgive the expression , Mr Milton . ’ |
| 10 | Then we went back for the long-service merit awards . |
| 11 | I , I , mean we had erm , we went out for the day and they give us it was sandwiches |
| 12 | It might be needed if they went out for the day . |
| 13 | He went up for the job , grinding his teeth , and got it . |
| 14 | I think we said to you on Friday erm both me and Roger actually said that he he went into er he went in for the kill and he c he came out with slaughter |
| 15 | He went back for the President , lifting him from behind by both elbows and walking him into the shower with his boxer shorts and his sandals on . |
| 16 | ‘ When you 've finished , it 'll look like a snooker table , ’ he said cheerfully , and , reversing deftly , he went back for the next lot . |
| 17 | He went back for the woman pedestrian he knocked down near a busy roundabout and helped her into his white Sierra car . |
| 18 | We then hit him over the head with the punt-pole and paddled off out of range of his piteously outstretched hands , cackling demonically as he went down for the third time . |
| 19 | But he went along for the ride , hoping he could put his spoke in and cancel the idea . |
| 20 | And so it went on for the first 14 years of their friendship . |