Example sentences of "went [adv] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I went right for the flag . |
| 2 | She went inside for a moment , because she loved old things — and St Peter 's , Overclyst , was very old indeed . |
| 3 | She began plunging the pole down into the pot once more but , feeling suddenly rebellious , she stopped work and went outside for a breath of fresh air . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , she went just for a lark , y'know , but this Mabel , she 's very serious , never got married , y'know — not surprisin' either when you see 'er in a strong light . |
| 5 | On the rare occasions when we went away for a fortnight — to my grandfather 's dank cottage on the Welsh border , land of the slate grey sky — I could hardly wait to get back and listen to the two-weeks ' worth of messages crammed on my answering machine . |
| 6 | Very few part-time farmers went away for a holiday so this should not be difficult . |
| 7 | ‘ We eventually fell madly in love and went away for a string of dirty weekends . ’ |
| 8 | Erm no I went away for the weekend this weekend and er made four ta tapes of me and Frank in the car driving around from er we went to erm Oxford first then we went to Bournemouth , then we went to Winchester and then we went to Cheltenham , . |
| 9 | went away for the weekend we could ask him along could n't we ? |
| 10 | my brother and sister went away for the week , right , |
| 11 | As soon as it was light , I crept out of the room and went downstairs for a coffee at a nearby café . |
| 12 | When he finished he went home for a rest . |
| 13 | Nothing much was doing , though , and eventually I went home for a bite to eat and a well-deserved kip . |
| 14 | I went home for a week at the end of July , just in time to see the beginning of this new menace , the V1 buzz bombs and I have to say they completely terrified me . |
| 15 | I went home for the summer holidays weighing seven stone six pounds . |
| 16 | but I went straight for the directory . |
| 17 | Agnes knew the room and went straight for the telephone . |
| 18 | Impatient as ever I skipped the help and went straight for the action ! |
| 19 | Impatient as ever I skipped the help and went straight for the action ! |
| 20 | The girls looked at me knowingly while the boss went behind for the stuff , and when they said , ‘ Ten pence , please ’ they turned to me . |
| 21 | Woosnam went boldly for the pin from 35 feet but sailed six feet past before Torrance rammed home his 30-footer , leaving his three rivals to pick up their balls and share second spot . |
| 22 | All went well for the outing until at one particularly reverent moment , the young son of the party stood on his seat and inquired with a loud voice : ‘ Dad , where are all the hypocrites ? ’ |
| 23 | The opening campaigns of the war went well for the French . |
| 24 | I spent hours and hours around the flat , back of Kings College , Cambridge and er , you see and we , we went sometimes for a service . |
| 25 | He had two holidays a year : in May he usually went abroad for a fortnight , then in October he would have another fortnight somewhere in this country . ’ |
| 26 | At Easter we went there for a holiday , and often have since . |
| 27 | And then she was short of a nursing there and then I went there for a bit . |
| 28 | The tiny room at the back of the shop was fitted with a trestle table and two forms and country people went there for a meal on market days . |
| 29 | We used to , we , I used to go when my husband was alive we used to go to erm Devon cos I had a brother living in Devon we used to go there , but er unfortunately I lost him when he was only fifty with a coronary , and so erm , in , cos and after that I lost my husband you see so cos we I 've never been away like that before , not , not since , years ago that was , he 's been gone twenty one years this Christmas sixteenth might be so , I 've not been able to so I , I , I go with the erm , I went with the Red Cross this year the year before last I went erm er , Char Charlie took me away we went to er a chalet we stayed at and er a friend of mine we went there for a week had a week there , that poured of rain every day , this year it poured of rain every day |
| 30 | I went there for a week . |