Example sentences of "gone [adv] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was surprised , for I had lost all count of time and had felt it had gone on for a week . |
| 2 | He had watched until the night nurse had left the office and now he was as sure as he could be that she had gone below for a meal . |
| 3 | And as often as you tell yourself she 's not your type , that you do n't like blondes , your taste tends towards the browns , even redheads but not blondes , no ; and what 's more , her face is round , but you do n't like round faces ; and you 've always gone in for a bit of shape and she 's flat as a pancake . |
| 4 | Then they 'd gone in for a look . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He says a boy had gone away for a weekend and had come back to the school with the tablets and then sold them . |
| 9 | Going back to your earlier point , the , the press do need to have a contact , and it 's very important that the contact is contactable and that , that they have n't gone away for a holiday during the two weeks in which the the thing is an issue . |
| 10 | She told him in fact that Dinah had gone away for a day or two , but shortly a letter came . |
| 11 | ‘ He 's gone away for a while . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Gone away for a time . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | BOXER Michael Watson has gone home for a family Christmas to help with his recovery . |
| 15 | It was a small grave , and at its head was a low wooden cross inscribed with his name , date of birth , and date of death ; and as I passed , I had a vision of a little Aberdeen terrier who had gone off for a run by himself , and was now sporting in the fields of Paradise . |
| 16 | Dad 's gone up for a bath . ’ |
| 17 | who were the religious police who were actually watching , so we have n't gone back for a while |
| 18 | Pike was standing by a wooden rack of pamphlets , including What Has Old Mother Walsh to Say to Us ? and a large , colourful one for the kiddies entitled Daddy is n't Dead , He 's Just Gone Out for a Bit . |
| 19 | Now let's keep reminding you about the time situation , sixty five minutes gone , Shrewsbury have another twenty five minutes in which to hang on here , it 's Shrewsbury three , Blackburn Rovers two , it 's gon na be a nervous evening here for the normally placid Shropshire folk at as that ball is headed forward by and here 's , again in field to , clipped forward for Mike , here comes advancing towards the edge of the penalty area , he 's got ta try and get past the brick wall of , and it 's now who tries to release down the right hand side , he 's got ta get past , he does so , he gets the ball across and that one is cleared importantly by only as far as who tries to hook it back in and that the ball would n't reach him and it would n't reach either and it 's gone out for a goal kick to Shrewsbury . |
| 20 | After an evening of pleasure and profit with my friends in Bank Street , I had clearly gone out for a drink or two . |
| 21 | He 's gone out for a while . |
| 22 | It was dusk , and the evening was as still and airless as the previous one when , impatient for news , Zen had gone out for a stroll . |
| 23 | Oh , service with a smile , he 's probably gone out for a coffee ! |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ Gone on holiday , gone out for a walk … ’ |
| 26 | They 've gone out for a walk to have a cigar but as far we 're concerned they 're not having a cigar . |
| 27 | A Teesside inquest heard how Wayne had gone out for a spin in the W-reg white Ford Escort with four pals in November last year . |
| 28 | The other voice — Caribbean — says : ‘ I reckon he gone out for a packet of chips , ’ and several guys laugh . |
| 29 | She assumed he had gone out for a reason but became worried and phoned a friend . |
| 30 | 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 |