Example sentences of "[pers pn] went [adv prt] for [art] " in BNC.
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1 | I got an elbow in the face as I went up for a header and I remember putting my head down and running straight into Bull 's back . |
2 | I went up for a weekend . |
3 | I went up for a closer look . |
4 | ‘ It was made in his atelier so I went over for the fittings and in those years I was very sure of myself . |
5 | On the other hand , after a glance at ‘ Luck of the Legion ’ , I went about for a week with a white handkerchief tucked into the back of my cap , ordering the dog to about-face or wooing it with words of French culled from the strip ( ‘ Oo-ee , mon pet it ’ ) . |
6 | I went out for a walk , then picked blackberries on Periton Hill , in that far clump at the edge of the downs . |
7 | I went out for a walk because I could n't stand being indoors . |
8 | I went out for a drink just after seven — at the Sir Richard Steele on Haverstock Hill . |
9 | I went out for a walk yesterday . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | I went out for the day , and came back to find the room full of thick smoke from Holmes ' pipe . |
12 | Amy and I went out for the day . |
13 | I mean , I ended up staying a month at some bloke 's house after I went in for a pack of strings ! |
14 | So I went in for a scholarship with the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts . |
15 | ‘ I had a cartilage operation three and a half years ago , and I went in for a tackle just before Christmas and damaged it again . |
16 | I went in for a tackle with Brian Mooney and I came off worse because I broke my right leg . |
17 | While I 'm digging that garden she used to go out roll in the trench what I 'd dug and soon as I went in for a drink she was in there before me ! |
18 | But then I thought , ‘ I 'll show him , ’ and I went in for the Pub Entertainer of the Year contest . |
19 | when I went in for the steamer |
20 | Eventually the dinner broke up and Claud , Roger Hollis and I went off for a pub-crawl which after sundry indecorous adventures ended up at the Hypocrites where another blind was going on . |
21 | ‘ I went back for a couple of months this summer for the first time in four years . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | 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 . ’ |
25 | Now if you went out for a ferry , you 'd have one of us guarding the stereo one person on that . |
26 | Occasionally she went out for a drink with Mick O'Shea , who was between girlfriends at the time and was happy to have Kathleen along as pleasant and undemanding company . |
27 | And when she went down for a cup of tea , her mother mentioned casually that Parr had gone to Belfast , not to England as expected , although she did not know why . |
28 | She went in for a drink one time , she liked a few drinks around midday , she used to say it helped the long hot afternoons slide by , ’ and Nathan smiled to himself , because he could hear her saying it . |
29 | And erm and then we went and got my fruit and veg and then we went in Top Marks and got them so we never got we went through for a video really , never got round to looking for a video did we ? |
30 | All three of us if we went up for a weekend . |