Example sentences of "[pers pn] went for [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ However , I went for a second opinion , and I was put on a scan .
2 After returning the van to the hire company , I went for a long walk in Hyde Park .
3 They 're not tight , that 's why I went for a one cos I thought it 's like a trainer in n it ?
4 The next day he and I went for a shorter walk and returned about 6 .
5 My mother volunteered to look after the luggage while my father and I went for a short walk .
6 Escaping from the awkward embarrassment of arty people , in whose company I can never say the right thing , I went for a Chinese meal .
7 Vocals went straight down with only the minimum of top end EQ to keep them sharp , and when I went for the final mixdown I have to say I was amazed at how big a sound was coming back from the monitors .
8 In fact , I went for the entire two months without seeing anyone .
9 Mm I went for the wrong one oh your turn
10 I had served Churchill for ten years and for four as his Chancellor , but he told me later ‘ I went for the older man . ’
11 I went for the last fitting of my dress .
12 ‘ I thought I went for the Amazonian types , ’ he commented , ladling some of the food on to his plate warily .
13 Experience may help you take some of these into account but if you went for a fixed fee you may have to pitch it at such a level to allow for these that it 's perhaps twice what it might be and you could lose the client .
14 Erm and then you went for a whole month which was , you could do something in that time .
15 ‘ Down at Atholl , when you went for the new blades , ’ his wife answered from beside the fireplace .
16 I suppose it depended on whether you went for the older man , which , speaking for herself , Rosie did n't and never had done and was , anyway , leaving to stay with the Spratlings at Porto Ercole and then , perhaps , driving down to Rome to see poor old Jack Gerontius , who had n't long to go , and after that , who knew ?
17 She went for a last walk with him — and they never returned .
18 When she had finished hanging out the washing , before she went for the weekly shop at SavaCentre , Sara applied her lipstick , and around her throat she squirted the toilet water which she had had for three years and never before used .
19 It was hard to know where to start but we went for a private sale and a Mazda 323 on the basis that Dave Baker ( our friend in Christchurch ) has a Mazda 323 and what 's good for Dave is good for us !
20 But we went for a long walk and Ally started talking about his work in a way I had n't heard before .
21 So we went for a last look round .
22 We were bunched together in the semi-final of the 1976 Olympic 1500m in Montreal and as we went for the same small gap I felt his spike again my shin .
23 We went for an open systems solution because we wanted to build in flexibility for the future , ’ says ACCOUNTANCY 's Malcolm Cole .
24 He said : ‘ Originally we went for an American-style back-end load or exit charge which was tapered to reduce by a percentage point for each year an investment was held .
25 When the meal was over , they went for a late drink , then for a dance .
26 Saunders , playing his final match for Liverpool before his £2.3m move to Aston Villa , clashed with Elliott in the 10th minute as they went for a 50-50 ball .
27 If they went for the traditional look I suppose they 'd all be wearing hard hats that looked like the flat cap Victorian cyclists always wore .
28 In the end he went for a small Monet , a house on a cliff-side over the sea , surrounded by flowers .
29 The next day he went for a long walk , about 20 miles , during which he did a good deal of clear thinking in the mountains .
30 Mike Towers , with a background of newspaper journalism — he 'd worked for the Evening World in Bristol — assumed control of " Here Today " and he went for a harder , more newsy approach .
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