Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] go for a " in BNC.
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1 | After lunch I went for a walk in the little market town , now being hardened to being a subject of great curiosity , with people gaping at the sides of the road , and children following us up and down the street . |
2 | One afternoon we went for a walk to a nearby village where we met an old man with a stick and a long grey moustache who invited us home for tea . |
3 | One day we went for a tour around the mill and the lasting memory that I have is the terrible clattering of the looms and the speed at which the never idle operators worked to ensure that their piece of material was faultless . |
4 | After lunch one day we went for a walk in the nearby woods , my mother remaining at home with the two younger children and the rest of us accompanying my father and my aunt . |
5 | ‘ One day we went for a walk in woods to the north of London near Barnet , I think , I no longer recall the name , except that they were in those days very pretty and lonely woods for a place so near London . |
6 | They were not very varied — ‘ Juliet in front of a shop … and here 's Juliet in this bar place … and this one 's of Juliet sitting on a rock … and here 's Juliet in a boat — that was the day we went for a boat trip … . ’ |
7 | One day they went for a walk with Sinclair along by the river . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | In the end he went for a small Monet , a house on a cliff-side over the sea , surrounded by flowers . |
10 | Paul , erm he was his wife was there and his dad he went for a bath for a walk , a walk around |
11 | The last time I went for a smear and a blood pressure check and various things sh I , I said are you doing cholesterol checks ? |
12 | Every time I go for a wee I en she comes with me and pulls a load off to bloody blow her nose ! |
13 | When 's the last time we went for a meal ? |
14 | Every time we go for a Chinese |
15 | Yet , ironically , Stead 's recollection of Eliot 's walking in the woods , in true Frazerian style , after his baptism at Finstock in Oxfordshire on 29 June 1927 , perceives just the unusual link of savage and city which Eliot might appear to have renounced : ‘ … after dinner we went for a twilight walk through Wychwood , an ancient haunted forest , ‘ savage and enchanted ’ . |