Example sentences of "have go [adv prt] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MY Mont Blanc fountain pen is en panne and has gone in for repairs . |
| 2 | Without exception they were splattered in paint as if they 'd gone in for action art . |
| 3 | Obviously he 'd gone out for cigarettes , or lunch — or perhaps — it was a sudden exciting hope — he was upstairs in John 's room , waiting for me there . |
| 4 | My , my watch is the one Irene bought me gone wrong , it 's had to go in for repairs . |
| 5 | ‘ Then why did you have to go back for treatment ? ’ |
| 6 | She could have gone on for hours . |
| 7 | Anyway back to main point , so up to retirement quite straightforward , no problem at all and this is why he could have gone on for donkey years without a return of income , his salary goes up of course , it 's picked up in the tax tables , his personal allowances do n't change so they could swan along there for so many years without even looking at his affairs , but then see what happens in the very next tax year , when he has n't had a return and may not get a return for a couple of years . |
| 8 | I defended myself stoutly by pointing out that the alternative was to break off negotiations , with a dispute that could have gone on for months at great cost to the health of the nation . |
| 9 | If you had n't made me hate you , it might have gone on for months . ’ |
| 10 | We might have gone on for years like that — me combing the streets for you while pretending to be there on other business ! |
| 11 | By the time I got into position , my lungs were bursting and I had to go up for air again . |
| 12 | And then , at half past eight , we used to have to get everything ready for breakfast and have it all ready ; and then we had to go in for prayers . |
| 13 | Aye , because I 've , I 've gone on for weeks with it , you |
| 14 | You 've gone on for years about being the only person in the West Country with the faintest notion how to prune roses . ’ |
| 15 | they had beautiful clothes and they 've gone on for years like that . |
| 16 | Do n't tell me you 've gone in for politics . |
| 17 | Brian Guthrie interviewed Mary , Mavin Shulver ( who had gone along for support ) and some Class members , and the Broadcast went out over the air on the following Saturday . |
| 18 | Where once dockers and carmen had gone in for breakfast or a midday meal they now sat around drinking mugs of tea and eating slices of toast and dripping . |
| 19 | He had told Mr Gibson they had been walking past the barn and had gone in for shelter . |
| 20 | Anyway his uncle had gone off for Christmas with his family , the house was empty . |
| 21 | He had gone out for air while Mary reverted to her servant role , but an impulse had taken him much further than he anticipated and now that he was on the shoreline he knew that he had followed an instinct which was directing him to resolve this business with Mary . |
| 22 | As requested by Mrs Johnson of the Committee for the Preservation of Morals , she drove out to the library , with the intention of asking the chief librarian for information about Ben MacLean , but when she arrived he had gone out for morning coffee . |
| 23 | She had worn it twice , once when she had gone out for dinner with her father and Leo and on the night of Sylvie 's return from Italy . |
| 24 | The seat includes most of Leeds University 's halls of residence ( ‘ it 's a political blessing the students have gone down for Easter , ’ admits Dr Hampson ) and the well-heeled town of Otley , where the 200-bed hospital does hip replacement jobs on patients from Cornwall and Kent . |
| 25 | Plus : Dyed in the wool … the textile mill that 's gone up for sale |
| 26 | He 's gone out for lunch this er |