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 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | When the meal was over , they went for a late drink , then for a dance . |
| 15 | He had no strong views on fox hunting , he just went for a cheap day out . |
| 16 | Sal went for a subdued but glamorous sparkly hair band and matching lead . |
| 17 | Escaping from the awkward embarrassment of arty people , in whose company I can never say the right thing , I went for a Chinese meal . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Erm and then you went for a whole month which was , you could do something in that time . |
| 20 | He rarely went for a tightframed shot , but instead honed in on whatever it was the subject had and made them give him more . |
| 21 | My mother volunteered to look after the luggage while my father and I went for a short walk . |
| 22 | In 1900 he went to St Thomas 's Hospital to study medicine , qualifying in 1906 as MRCS and LRCP , and he then went for a short time to Brompton Hospital and Convalescent Centre . |
| 23 | was a bottle of of whisky from that distillery went for a huge p price at one of the big |
| 24 | Myeloski went for a big order while the other two ordered coffees . |
| 25 | went for a double blackpudding supper , then half an hour later , |
| 26 | Marion and her son had an agreeable high tea of poached eggs on toast , tea and cakes , went for a little walk along Old Compton Street and bought some gorgonzola and a pound of cherries before returning to the theatre for the evening show ; he was allowed to watch the first act from the wings before making his way back to Putney on his own . |
| 27 | As time trouble approached , Short went for a wild kingside attack , but Karpov played well and it was Short 's king which proved the weaker . |
| 28 | Bids for an oak standing court cabinet made in Flanders around 1520 rose to a startling FFr2.5 million ( £259,800 ; $425,000 ) , ten times its low estimate and another world record , while a more richly decorated and rich hued world cupboard with grotesque masks , Anjou work around 1600 , went for a modest FFr400,000 ( £41,200 ; $71,750 ) ( estimate FFr200–250,000 ) . |
| 29 | ‘ Down at Atholl , when you went for the new blades , ’ his wife answered from beside the fireplace . |
| 30 | In fact , I went for the entire two months without seeing anyone . |