Example sentences of "went for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was hard to know where to start but we went for a private sale and a Mazda 323 on the basis that Dave Baker ( our friend in Christchurch ) has a Mazda 323 and what 's good for Dave is good for us ! |
| 2 | Jean Dubuffet 's ‘ La Calipette ’ of 1961 , for example , bought at Sotheby 's London in April 1990 for £2,530,000 ( $4,427,500 ) went for a mere FFr6 million ( £714,300 ; $1.12 million ) , its low estimate , after a long duel between two telephone bidders . |
| 3 | in a recent sale Rod Stewart 's Lamborghini went for a mere sixty one thousand pounds , less than half what he paid for it . |
| 4 | As a young actor you obviously went for a great deal of variety in characters and accents . |
| 5 | In the end he went for a small Monet , a house on a cliff-side over the sea , surrounded by flowers . |
| 6 | Wealthy ladies , doing a little charitable slumming , as well as a few shopkeepers ' wives , bought the pretty baby clothes , and the doll she had dressed went for a fabulous price , to be given to some little girl more fortunate than those for whom the money was being raised . |
| 7 | Headford Arms , an October 1990 Balalaika dog now trained by David Connor , went for a four-figure sum and has run impressive trials . |
| 8 | After returning the van to the hire company , I went for a long walk in Hyde Park . |
| 9 | The next day he went for a long walk , about 20 miles , during which he did a good deal of clear thinking in the mountains . |
| 10 | But we went for a long walk and Ally started talking about his work in a way I had n't heard before . |
| 11 | I put on my coat and went for a long walk on the moor . |
| 12 | ‘ However , I went for a second opinion , and I was put on a scan . |
| 13 | Experience may help you take some of these into account but if you went for a fixed fee you may have to pitch it at such a level to allow for these that it 's perhaps twice what it might be and you could lose the client . |
| 14 | Being Ireland , they ended up by eating three teas , then roared out to a singing pub in Howth , then went for a major curry before returning for a ‘ little party ’ in a student house . |
| 15 | They 're not tight , that 's why I went for a one cos I thought it 's like a trainer in n it ? |
| 16 | When the meal was over , they went for a late drink , then for a dance . |
| 17 | He had no strong views on fox hunting , he just went for a cheap day out . |
| 18 | Saunders , playing his final match for Liverpool before his £2.3m move to Aston Villa , clashed with Elliott in the 10th minute as they went for a 50-50 ball . |
| 19 | Sal went for a subdued but glamorous sparkly hair band and matching lead . |
| 20 | Not only that , but he went for a few shots , bravely teasing back the initiative from Mushtaq and Waqar . |
| 21 | He was educated at Harrow , from where he went for a few months into his father 's City office , which he hated ; and he spent a term in Göttingen , learning German . |
| 22 | Early one pre-Sale morning a stranger silently passed two sorters working in the vestibule , went for a few minutes into the Church , which happened at eh time to be empty of all nut noods , and then said to them as he walked out ‘ You 've made that Church live . ’ |
| 23 | Escaping from the awkward embarrassment of arty people , in whose company I can never say the right thing , I went for a Chinese meal . |
| 24 | We treated ourselves to a reindeer steak , then went for a last walk over the bridge towards the polar Cathedral . |
| 25 | So we went for a last look round . |
| 26 | She went for a last walk with him — and they never returned . |
| 27 | But by the morning of the fifth day , rider and horse became a team , and by that afternoon Artemis and her teacher went for a stiff ten-mile hack . |
| 28 | Mike Towers , with a background of newspaper journalism — he 'd worked for the Evening World in Bristol — assumed control of " Here Today " and he went for a harder , more newsy approach . |
| 29 | Erm and then you went for a whole month which was , you could do something in that time . |
| 30 | Chola went for a third time to fetch some water from the river while Mina and Kāli set to work on the outside of the house . |