Example sentences of "gone for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Has Donald gone for a doctor ? ’ |
| 2 | If they had all gone for a midnight swim , we would have had the worst slick since the Torrey Canyon . |
| 3 | She had gone for a walk up the road , beside a field of sunflowers , and although the sun had not yet risen she could sense the whole field turning away from her and each flower raising its face towards the eastern hills over which the sun would shortly leap . |
| 4 | We had previously gone for a somewhat broader base to the business for perfectly good reasons . |
| 5 | Mothers kept their children away from us , and were grateful when we had checked in and gone for a coffee . |
| 6 | Lloyd won his fourth toss and , after Greenidge had gone for a duck , Richards shared in three century stands . |
| 7 | It had been rather an expensive one as he had gone for a fleecy-lined designer number with flashes of blue , to match his eyes , on the shoulders and down the legs . |
| 8 | The night before , I had gone for a long , lonely walk along the banks of the Tormes , crossing and recrossing the Roman bridge , hoping against hope that I might somehow find you also walking there . |
| 9 | He had gone for a short walk over some fields — his constitutional — and had met a woman pushing a bicycle . |
| 10 | The vestal virgins had gone for a tea break and I sat down thankfully in the cool of the ruins and closed my eyes . |
| 11 | What I mean is he 's gone for a chop-job . |
| 12 | We asked my cousin if the poor laboratory rats had ‘ gone for a Burton ’ , and the sally caused to flit across our minds a phrase from The Anatomy of Melancholy condemning gluttony as ‘ the source of all our infirmities and the fountain of all our diseases ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ Gone for a pee at the back . ’ |
| 14 | Call me suspicious , but this implies that the crampon , far from adhering steadily to the spot upon which its owner has chosen to commit his or her weight , has decided it prefers an altogether different rock and has gone for a bit of a slide . |
| 15 | He happens to be a minister and found himself amid considerable grief telling his young family that their dog had gone for a walk with Jesus . |
| 16 | It turned out that she had gone for a hill walk on her own with an agreed pick up point by him in the car . |
| 17 | At a recent Thames rodeo the ladies had to provide their own rescues in a heat as the rescue boats had packed up and gone for a brawl ! |
| 18 | Non-pilot John Anderson had gone for a ride in father-in-law Les Rhoades ’ Rallye Minerva . |
| 19 | John Mumford had been a curate in the Church of England with a significant ministry and had gone for a year 's sabbatical to California . |
| 20 | someone 's gone for a swim |
| 21 | Rutger here has gone for a tight , hard , back pickup sound ideally suited to the staccato style he uses , and note the contrast between the sparse verse and much busier chorus patterns . |
| 22 | One day in the summer , young Daniel had gone for a walk along the towpath of a nearby canal with his older brother and two or three other ‘ big boys ’ . |
| 23 | Odd really , for a couple of Manchester-based people who 've gone for a progressive soul angle and eschewed any trendy trip . |
| 24 | According to Ms Leith , the designers have gone for a ‘ serious and conventional restaurant ’ look ‘ which will not frighten members with too much yuppie jazzdom ’ , but which is also fun — ‘ witty , modern and stylish enough to encourage them to come ’ . |
| 25 | Patsy had gone for a walk with Mossy Rooney . |
| 26 | ‘ She 's gone for a skiing lesson — she wants to learn before going home . ’ |
| 27 | I 'd gone for a walk . |
| 28 | Mr Reid told Oxford Crown Court , Clarke had finished work in Cheltenham at about noon on December 15 and gone for a drink with his father before going home . |
| 29 | I would have thought you would have gone for a commission . |
| 30 | But then , when you said they 'd been gone for a couple of years … ’ |