Example sentences of "[pers pn] have gone for [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I 'd gone for a walk .
2 Paul and I had gone for a walk along the sand , northwards on a calm , bright autumn day after a ferocious storm the night before that had ripped slates off the roof of the house , torn up one of the trees by the old sheep-pen and even snapped one of the cables on the suspension foot-bridge .
3 For this , I have gone for the Silver Arrowana ( Osteoglossum bicirrhosum ) and for the bottom , a choice from the Giraffe catfish ( Auchenoglanis occidentalis ) , Tyre-track eel ( Mastacembelus armatus ) , or one of the more unusual plecos like a Spinosus .
4 Your nanny told me you 'd gone for a walk .
5 I thought you said you 'd gone for the evening , Rosalind . ’
6 she 'd gone for a couple of days when she was up but she says she has n't been up to see her for about eighteen months !
7 Ash stopped so suddenly I wondered where she 'd gone for a moment .
8 She 'd gone for a walk .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 She 's gone for a skiing lesson — she wants to learn before going home . ’
12 Things had been near perfect at that stage , and they 'd gone for a drink later , with Amanda chatting up the barman who had seemed a nice shy boy , if a bit quiet for the job .
13 There they were , they , they 'd gone for a walk round London , and er come back .
14 When that did n't work out he went to Mal at Monad where they 'd gone for the villanelle .
15 so she just told me that so I 'll have all the news of Colin tomorrow they 've gone for a week
16 The two told how Pringle had called for Jason at his home in Geneva Road , Darlington , on Sunday afternoon and they had gone for a ride around in a van .
17 Literary criticism is doing here what it often does : it has gone for the faults and , in so doing , inverted the truth .
18 Well he told me he 'd gone for a count
19 He said he 'd gone for a count for a job
20 He had seen them at the County Show , where he had gone for the rabbits , all those girls with plaits and scrubbed faces and clean gloves , doing an exhibition ride .
21 What I mean is he 's gone for a chop-job .
22 " But he told you , he 's gone for the weekend with Pat . "
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