Example sentences of "[vb past] gone [adv prt] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | how much was n't held until after I 'd gone up for the money for Matthew 's back . |
| 2 | Then they 'd gone in for a look . |
| 3 | She wondered if the others were playing a joke on her : perhaps they 'd gone out for a walk ; perhaps , at this very moment , they were laughing at the thought of her waiting for a killer who would never come . |
| 4 | I had this octopus once in Germany and it , we 'd gone out for a meal and I was gon na have steak and mushrooms and |
| 5 | I assaulted this position from every angle , ranging from thoughtful analyses of the male mid-life crisis , its nature and origins , to sweeping ad absurdum dismissals in which I demonstrated that by the same token Trish and Brian were equally culpable , because if they 'd gone out for the day I would have stayed at home and we would never have met in the first place . |
| 6 | I was surprised , for I had lost all count of time and had felt it had gone on for a week . |
| 7 | They had gone on for a long distance , before arriving at a door in a long , anonymous wall ; the letter bearer , a gloomily serious young man with eyebrows which met across his brow , maintaining a severe silence throughout the journey . |
| 8 | with , with , with it , with it before I actually got involved after negotiations had gone through for the remo for the moving of the tenants . |
| 9 | I kept just killing time until it had gone eleven o'clock and all the cinema-goers had gone in for the late shows , at which point I decided to call it a day . |
| 10 | The driver of the van had been wanted for questioning , and the way CI5 had gone in for the arrest had clearly been the direct cause of the van 's destruction on the hot end of the booby-trap bomb it had been carrying . |
| 11 | It was a small grave , and at its head was a low wooden cross inscribed with his name , date of birth , and date of death ; and as I passed , I had a vision of a little Aberdeen terrier who had gone off for a run by himself , and was now sporting in the fields of Paradise . |
| 12 | What I had meant to say was that he was being inducted as a churchwarden , and the two of them had gone off for the ceremony — my friend was having a busy day ! |
| 13 | It was dusk , and the evening was as still and airless as the previous one when , impatient for news , Zen had gone out for a stroll . |
| 14 | She assumed he had gone out for a reason but became worried and phoned a friend . |
| 15 | A Teesside inquest heard how Wayne had gone out for a spin in the W-reg white Ford Escort with four pals in November last year . |
| 16 | He went quickly downstairs and left a note for his mother saying that he could n't sleep and had gone out for an early morning bike ride . |