Example sentences of "have gone [adv] for [art] " in BNC.

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1 Speedy 's lay-off Thomson collides the Forest man Gemmell and the whistle has gone eventually for a free kick to Forest .
2 ‘ Your Mummy has gone away for a long time ’ usually only serves to leave the child frightened but feeling the anxiety of the adults all around which forbids further discussion .
3 Some fudge the issue by saying that the grandparent has gone away for a little while .
4 ‘ What has made it particularly difficult , for manufacturers of all sizes , but most of all for smaller ones , is that it has gone on for a long time .
5 It had not been lived in recently it had none of that slight warmth of humanity you find in a dwelling whose inhabitant has gone out for the day .
6 BOXER Michael Watson has gone home for a family Christmas to help with his recovery .
7 As you may already realise , once again the Almeida has gone in for a lot of posh posturing got up as a drama of social consciousness .
8 how much was n't held until after I 'd gone up for the money for Matthew 's back .
9 Then they 'd gone in for a look .
10 She wondered if the others were playing a joke on her : perhaps they 'd gone out for a walk ; perhaps , at this very moment , they were laughing at the thought of her waiting for a killer who would never come .
11 I had this octopus once in Germany and it , we 'd gone out for a meal and I was gon na have steak and mushrooms and
12 I assaulted this position from every angle , ranging from thoughtful analyses of the male mid-life crisis , its nature and origins , to sweeping ad absurdum dismissals in which I demonstrated that by the same token Trish and Brian were equally culpable , because if they 'd gone out for the day I would have stayed at home and we would never have met in the first place .
13 So they all must have gone out for the dinner .
14 The grown ups having gone out for the evening we then kept awake alternately for half-hour shifts by one of the boy 's watches until at long last we were rewarded by the sound of creaking and thumps from the stairs , accompanied by slurry avuncular curses and " shushes " from the aunts .
15 ‘ It would have been just like Jean to have gone along for the journey . ’
16 We 're chasing up two other people who were at that party , and who both seem to have gone out for the day .
17 They 've gone away for a few days .
18 They 've gone out for a walk to have a cigar but as far we 're concerned they 're not having a cigar .
19 Well , we 've done that , as we said we would and of course , in a business such as Pearson , which is a people business er , although we regularly monitor employment statistics , such as total employ total number of employees er , revenue per employee , cost per employee , profit per employee , there are times when we have to take er , difficult decisions and er , so we 've gone in for a lot of redundancy , which we 'll see in , in er during the next slide or two .
20 I was surprised , for I had lost all count of time and had felt it had gone on for a week .
21 They had gone on for a long distance , before arriving at a door in a long , anonymous wall ; the letter bearer , a gloomily serious young man with eyebrows which met across his brow , maintaining a severe silence throughout the journey .
22 True to his brother 's word , David had gone straight for the fish cakes .
23 If I had gone away for a couple of days , I returned expecting almost to have to push the door open but to my amazement , the place was immaculate .
24 After all they had been force-fed about the godliness of the Khomeini regime , here was Reagan as a ‘ man of God ’ ( North 's words ) who had gone away for a ‘ whole weekend ’ to pray about the Frankfurt meeting and had come up all by himself with an inscription for a Bible to be given to the Iranians .
25 She told him in fact that Dinah had gone away for a day or two , but shortly a letter came .
26 He says a boy had gone away for a weekend and had come back to the school with the tablets and then sold them .
27 It was sent to Alison 's brother , Mark , and implied that she and their father had gone away for a break as both were suffering from depression .
28 Mary and Reggie had gone away for the weekend , and would not be back until evening .
29 Yet nothing had gone right for the crusade .
30 with , with , with it , with it before I actually got involved after negotiations had gone through for the remo for the moving of the tenants .
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