Example sentences of "went [adv] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so it went on for the first 14 years of their friendship . |
| 2 | One , an innings of 499 : the other , a knock which went on for the little matter of 970 minutes . |
| 3 | Then anti-climax , as they watched its tail-lights in the pitchy dark , lights that seemed to throb and waver in their seared sight before they blazed redly when the brakes went on for the corner by the sailing club slipway . |
| 4 | There was one in this show when Charity Barnum 's understudy went on for the first time . |
| 5 | And I went right for the flag . |
| 6 | Matters went awry for the Allies from the start . |
| 7 | One enterprising young man gathered 60 ration books into his brief-case and persuaded an RCAF pilot , due for a recognizance flight that day , to fly him several hundred miles across the provincial border to Atlin , B.C. At the friendly invitation of those concerned I went along for the ride and helped my energetic friends load five cases of Johnny Walker , which we transported back to Whitehorse well in time for a Saturday night party . |
| 8 | People from the upper classes were getting on the move , and photography often went along for the ride . |
| 9 | People from the upper classes were getting on the move , and photography often went along for the ride . |
| 10 | I went along for the ride ; Mrs Goreng needed moral support and a straight guy to conduct an emergency dialogue with , if the need arose . |
| 11 | In my own defence I can say only that I went along for the ride , as it were , if you 'll forgive the expression , Mr Milton . ’ |
| 12 | But he went along for the ride , hoping he could put his spoke in and cancel the idea . |
| 13 | We then hit him over the head with the punt-pole and paddled off out of range of his piteously outstretched hands , cackling demonically as he went down for the third time . |
| 14 | But then I thought , ‘ I 'll show him , ’ and I went in for the Pub Entertainer of the Year contest . |
| 15 | Like Marx , William 's grandad went in for the broad dialectic of history and was n't too fussy about the fine print . |
| 16 | The Spartans offence then fumbled the ball and seconds later running back Eric Okatu went in for the Tornadoes ' second T.D . |
| 17 | The Iliad went in for the triumvirate in the Ladbroke of 1991 at Leopardstown and then the biggest success of all came at Cheltenham where Destriero was supposed to have landed a gamble of over £1m in taking the Supreme Novices Hurdle . |
| 18 | The court room at the Old Bailey was hushed dock went in for the jury to return for their verdict . |
| 19 | I think we said to you on Friday erm both me and Roger actually said that he he went into er he went in for the kill and he c he came out with slaughter |
| 20 | when I went in for the steamer |
| 21 | If you look at the people who went in for the Olympic Games , right up to the Second World War , erm you would call them amateurs . |
| 22 | More than 20 years since he started flying , he went solo for the first time . |
| 23 | 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 , . |
| 24 | went away for the weekend we could ask him along could n't we ? |
| 25 | my brother and sister went away for the week , right , |
| 26 | ‘ It was made in his atelier so I went over for the fittings and in those years I was very sure of myself . |
| 27 | Forwards and backs combined as Melrose charged for the Jed line from well inside their own territory with Gary Parker managing to evade Liddle before feeding his front row colleague who went over for the try . |
| 28 | Before the veteran entertainer went home for the emotional Christmas Day reunion with his family , Leslie and Jean had together given thanks for his recovery at a short Communion service in the hospital chapel . |
| 29 | I went home for the summer holidays weighing seven stone six pounds . |
| 30 | She went home for the first time after twelve weeks … but she 's been in and out of the unit constantly ever since . |