Example sentences of "went for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twice , men went for long journeys across the snow . |
| 2 | And almost every day she went for long walks on the moors with her dog , Keeper . |
| 3 | Laura often went for long walks on her own into the hills behind Carno railway station . |
| 4 | Arthur and I went for long walks — and that little village was the best place in the world . |
| 5 | He was dropped by Prabhakar in the gully when 73 , and at 89 should have been run out by yards , but Srikkanth 's throw from close range missed the stumps and went for four overthrows . |
| 6 | Jay was now In Love with the impossible Lucy , Dionne went for butch crewcut teenagers , and they hugged each other 's hurt away and made love like some people offer Kleenex and brandy in times of stress . |
| 7 | En Shao went for brilliant incisiveness rather than dramatic dialogue . |
| 8 | We only went for two days . |
| 9 | The Spartans went for two points only to see the attempt fail and the score remained 13–12 . |
| 10 | Sometimes they went for two months without talking . |
| 11 | In Cairo on Oct. 24 , he then went for one day to Damascus , meeting President Assad of Syria , and returned unexpectedly to Egypt on Oct. 26 . |
| 12 | Hubert went for one interview , along with six other candidates . |
| 13 | When I found it , there was an argument and we went for each other . ’ |
| 14 | Sheridan , Seaman , Linighan , Sellars ( twice ! ) , all went for paltry sums and were good buys . |
| 15 | Froissart remarked that ‘ the greatest and the grandest among them sometimes went for six days without tasting bread ’ , and Walsingham observed that ‘ a great part of his army perished of hunger and disease and almost all their horses died ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ I think that they got a bit carried away , ’ she laughs , ‘ I 'm not sure why they went for that word exactly . |
| 17 | Why did you go on about that erm place where you went for that beer and you know , you said that we worked for that |
| 18 | I could have done with it , I could n't get on the bloo they got this internal bus service that runs from each college , cos you have to go to the other colleges for your lectures , and I just sort , there 's not enough , and you , you get turned away , and I just thought , I went for that bus Tuesday morning , I was supposed to get it at eight fifteen , and he just said sorry , no more room . |
| 19 | As a result , when the two women went for that walk — which was followed by several others — the topic Sarah was so anxious to discuss just never came up . |
| 20 | They went for small-scale figures , often made to appear more youthful than the subject allowed . |
| 21 | Augusta National went for major winners from a burgeoning cast of Aussies who just may be hungrier than any of their contemporaries . |
| 22 | He was at school at Uppingham ; then , suffering from asthma , he went for three years to Australia ( 1884–6 ) . |
| 23 | Comedians Griff Rhys Jones and Mel Smith went for huge belly laughs as they poked fun at ‘ a small group of people for whom this has been a terrible year — the British tabloid journalists ’ . |
| 24 | Each time we went for another animal all those left howled and fought their chains to get close to us so as not to be left behind . |
| 25 | The club went for another batsman instead , and that 's why I was intent on resigning . |
| 26 | Whereas the Chinese would take only clear amber and the Dutch had a preference for it , the Russians went for cloudy amber . |
| 27 | Suppose we went for this drink and the Hobbs greeted us ? |
| 28 | Well as I say I went for this interview and she phoned me last Sunday did n't she ? |
| 29 | Faced with a deficit of 522 , Boycott and Gatting fell in successive balls with the score on 2 ; , Gooch and Gower put on 120 , but when Gower went for 54 Gooch found little company . |
| 30 | He was drilling the car through a bend at 90mph when he went for third gear — and hit first at 7,000 revs . |