Example sentences of "went for [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To begin with , thieves went for the likes of Golf GTis and BMWs , but now bread-and-butter cars are also being taken . |
| 2 | Girls , money , fast cars — it was the choice between that and working in a factory for the rest of your life , and I went for the girls — ‘ I 'll have the girls and all the money , please . ’ |
| 3 | We went for the mid-tones and pastel shades . |
| 4 | Arms salesman ; okay the Avenger the Equaliser the Total Fucking Nutter went for the legs too but still , and the editor spiked , and the rapist-lenient judge raped and the pornographer poisoned and stroked and the man who was so callous about the bloodshed in the Iran/Iraq war forced to watch his penned animals die like cattle like soldiers like cattle and then bled to death in his own private fountains of blood and the businessman who put profits before safety and not only helped kill a thousand people but then tried to get out of paying the survivors and dependants any compensation gets his own gas explosion — blevey is the technical term apparently — and fuck me whoever he is ( assuming he is a he ) , he 's got a sense of humour or at least irony why he 's produced what 's almost a snuff video effectively a snuff video if you mean brain-death anyway it 's the closest anyone will admit to ever having seen or found one even the Obscene Pubs Squad who 've been looking for years but although everybody assumes they exist nobody 's ever seen one until old gorilla man comes along and just makes his own , specifically to warn off any other porn merchants thinking of dealing in snuff ! |
| 5 | Much the same went for the witnesses . |
| 6 | Mrs Stevens got the blame for producing these but she claimed that she had merely kept him talking while her son went for the police . |
| 7 | The captain had survived some hot stuff from Akram , who went for the ribs , only to fall to Aqib , who used the slope well . |