Example sentences of "we went for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet , ironically , Stead 's recollection of Eliot 's walking in the woods , in true Frazerian style , after his baptism at Finstock in Oxfordshire on 29 June 1927 , perceives just the unusual link of savage and city which Eliot might appear to have renounced : ‘ … after dinner we went for a twilight walk through Wychwood , an ancient haunted forest , ‘ savage and enchanted ’ . |
| 2 | We went for a coffee and Odd-Knut explained his ideas for the trip . |
| 3 | The closest I ever got to you was when we went for a spin on your motor bike , with me like a ravished flapper on the pillion , legitimately clinging to your lissom waist , to those two wonderful hip-bones I loved to hold , as if they were the very hinges of heaven , whose wind blew your hair back into my ecstatic face : |
| 4 | She 'd been with us for a year when we went for a day 's walk in the country . |
| 5 | So we went for a last look round . |
| 6 | One day we went for a tour around the mill and the lasting memory that I have is the terrible clattering of the looms and the speed at which the never idle operators worked to ensure that their piece of material was faultless . |
| 7 | After lunch one day we went for a walk in the nearby woods , my mother remaining at home with the two younger children and the rest of us accompanying my father and my aunt . |
| 8 | We went for a cruise on the river , now a mooring for ocean yachts . |
| 9 | Instead of the stock stories about Bogarde 's early films , we went for a bit of drama as he lives in France and Arthur Marshall hated the French . |
| 10 | ‘ With ‘ All Over My Face ’ we went for a rather professional production , ’ sighs Andy . |
| 11 | There was another track after ‘ Happy Hour ’ that we could have put out that probably would have done just as well , but instead we went for a ballad , ‘ Think For A Minute ’ , to make people think , ‘ Jesus , there 's more to this group than I 'd thought ’ . |
| 12 | But when we went for a fitting , the garments had been made with buttons just sewn onto tacky fake buttonholes . |
| 13 | Then we went for a walk out in the garden . |
| 14 | So we went for a shellac finish . |
| 15 | After we came up out of the dank womb of the pit , we went for a drink in the welfare club . |
| 16 | We went for a drive through the ‘ one ways ’ — small one-way streets of tiny clapboard houses built for an earlier generation of warriors , the GIs who returned from Europe and the Pacific in 1945 . |
| 17 | One afternoon we went for a walk to a nearby village where we met an old man with a stick and a long grey moustache who invited us home for tea . |
| 18 | Afterwards we went for a pizza at — of all places — Al Forno . |
| 19 | ‘ One day we went for a walk in woods to the north of London near Barnet , I think , I no longer recall the name , except that they were in those days very pretty and lonely woods for a place so near London . |
| 20 | But we went for a long walk and Ally started talking about his work in a way I had n't heard before . |
| 21 | They were not very varied — ‘ Juliet in front of a shop … and here 's Juliet in this bar place … and this one 's of Juliet sitting on a rock … and here 's Juliet in a boat — that was the day we went for a boat trip … . ’ |
| 22 | The last time I saw Jonathan was Thursday evening when he picked me up in the car and we went for a drive . |
| 23 | I gathered up all my courage and went home and we went for a walk and I just told him . |
| 24 | It was hard to know where to start but we went for a private sale and a Mazda 323 on the basis that Dave Baker ( our friend in Christchurch ) has a Mazda 323 and what 's good for Dave is good for us ! |
| 25 | ‘ We went for a meal instead . ’ |
| 26 | We went for a visit to an Arts and Crafts factory on Saturday . |
| 27 | I was , I was off on , on Sunday , I mean I 've joined yet another marriage agency , off on last Sunday to Latherham , with another nice old chap , you know , erm , I , I go out with erm , women friends , we , I 've arranged , er there 's one very , very good place that does lunches , run by a couple of homosexuals and erm , old age pensioners on Tuesday get , get a lunch , an eight pound lunch , for four pounds , so four friends , three friends and myself are going for a special Christmas lunch that they do , fortnight ago we went for a lunch with the group of the town 's women 's guild and friends , erm , my women 's group that I belong to over at the village of which is run by the television actress er Helen Fraser |
| 28 | and you go and stand at those castle round parts and we went for a walk and there was a football match going on was n't there ? |
| 29 | No we did n't have a row he just went a sleep me Aar , me and Aaron had enough , we went for a walk down the lake |
| 30 | And they were interviewing this feller , he said , oh we went for a day out he said and I 'd just bought this car and I was really made up with it he said |