Example sentences of "went for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Afterwards , with her foursome , she changed into her swim suit and went for a bathe before lunch . |
| 2 | SAILOR John Worthington went for a drink — and triggered an air-sea hunt . |
| 3 | After we came up out of the dank womb of the pit , we went for a drink in the welfare club . |
| 4 | Nancy then told them , in so low a voice that the listener round the corner could hardly hear her , where Monks often went for a drink , and what he looked like . |
| 5 | At eleven o'clock Tony went for a drink , but the bottle was empty . |
| 6 | Dad told them he went for a drink to the pub at Goldsithney , that he left at about nine and came straight home . ’ |
| 7 | If they went for a drink everybody was calling them scabs and if they went anywhere then , some some had their cars sprayed with paint and oh they had everything done , they were all against them . |
| 8 | And then when we went for a drink he used to say are you not buying me a drink ? |
| 9 | ONE SUMMER in 1920 , while staying with the Morells at Garsington , the late Percy Feilding went for a drive around Oxfordshire , and miles up a cart track , purely by chance , he found Beckley . |
| 10 | He now ate what I cooked , and went for a drive when I had time . |
| 11 | Nails took his usual Ford Escort that night from the parking lot outside the gasworks where the night shift was working , the one he had a key for , and he and Gary went for a drive round the back streets where they would n't meet a patrol car , out into the country for ten miles or so and back again . |
| 12 | Why was Mrs Thatcher upset when her son went for a drive in 1982 ? |
| 13 | After the congratulatory hugs and tears and kisses , they opened a bottle of champagne before they went for a drive round London nursing their secret . |
| 14 | This was to be Philpot 's last visit to the School : on 9th December 1974 he went for a drive near Haverfordwest , and died peacefully in his parked car . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The last time I saw Jonathan was Thursday evening when he picked me up in the car and we went for a drive . |
| 17 | Robyn found herself saying , ‘ So he went for a drive to let off some steam and that was the last … ’ |
| 18 | LIVERPOOL soccer manager Graeme Souness went for a drive with his girlfriend yesterday as he continued his recovery from a triple heart by-pass operation . |
| 19 | Oh and he met this girl , they went for a weekend to Aviemore . |
| 20 | The following morning , the scout picked me up and I went for a trial . |
| 21 | Two weeks ago Roy and Fiona went for a curry . |
| 22 | Ha ha , it 's your au — fr … parents ' friend , Janice , Gav beamed , radiating unrepentant guilt ; came round here the other day looking for you we got talking went for a curry had a few drinks ended up back here one thing led to another know how it is always liked older women they 're more experienced know what I mean arf arf anyway spent an extremely enjoyable New Year at her place apart from the usual visit to my folk 's of course oh by the way she 's coming round here tonight I 'm cooking lasagne can you swap rooms seeing Norris wo n't be back until tomorrow it 's just I did n't expect you back until then either , that okay ? |
| 23 | Kay went for a head-butt on Colin Walsh , who refused to discuss the incident after the match . |
| 24 | 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 ’ . |
| 25 | I went for a chat with Father Chris and eventually got the job . |
| 26 | Three hours later , Becky returned and went for a lunchtime drink with Jamie to talk things over . |
| 27 | A couple of his men , apparently under orders from Epitot , were content to follow at a respectful distance as she and Karelius went for a stroll in the city . |
| 28 | ‘ I went for a stroll down the river bank , ’ replied Yanto , with a wink . |
| 29 | With his accomplished American accent , Crawford went for a part in the London stage version of the Broadway hit comedy Come Blow Your Horn , which became Sergeant Bilko' TV writer Neil Simon 's first West End play . |
| 30 | 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 |