Example sentences of "went [adv] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I went right for the flag . |
| 2 | Matters went awry for the Allies from the start . |
| 3 | More than 20 years since he started flying , he went solo for the first time . |
| 4 | 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 , . |
| 5 | went away for the weekend we could ask him along could n't we ? |
| 6 | my brother and sister went away for the week , right , |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I went home for the summer holidays weighing seven stone six pounds . |
| 9 | She went home for the first time after twelve weeks … but she 's been in and out of the unit constantly ever since . |
| 10 | I went yesterday for the first time . |
| 11 | At first the boys went straight for the cars as usual and the girls did n't notice . |
| 12 | but I went straight for the directory . |
| 13 | Agnes knew the room and went straight for the telephone . |
| 14 | Impatient as ever I skipped the help and went straight for the action ! |
| 15 | Impatient as ever I skipped the help and went straight for the action ! |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | More men were struck in the Dutch battalions , but most balls went overhead for the French gunners were firing a fraction too high . |
| 19 | 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 ? ’ |
| 20 | However , all went well for the British team . |
| 21 | The opening campaigns of the war went well for the French . |
| 22 | The attack began on 8 March and went well for the Italians at first . |
| 23 | Queen Victoria went there for the first , very influential time in 1889 , though even before that the surprisingly large English community in Pau had begun to colonize it , to such an extent that by the 1870s not only did the Church of England have congregations in Biarritz but they were already schismatic and the Archbishop of Canterbury had to travel out on a pastoral visit to try and stifle the factionalism . |
| 24 | Added to that , there was something about the Wartberg works that I found soothing the first time I went there for the interview . |
| 25 | WILLIAM SHAWCROSS , opposite page , never lived in Vietnam , but went there for The Sunday Times six times between 1972 and 1983 . |
| 26 | I went there for the opening and I 'm really proud to be associated with water because I think it 's I think it 's a wonderful piece of engineering and excellent . |
| 27 | I went there for the clothing , because Antoinette wanted me to take photographs . |
| 28 | Let's have a realistic attitude : Batty went there for the money . |
| 29 | And we went there for the Christmas one did n't we ? |
| 30 | The P1154 went ahead for the RAF only ; and the Navy was allowed to buy the American Phantom . |