Example sentences of "gone for a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I I 'm extremely pleased that the County Council have not gone for a strategic exceptions policy . |
| 2 | And they couldn't 've well for example with taxation , they could 've erm not taxed the rich peasants at all and then just put all their erm their sort of focus upon the poor peasants and got their income through them and also with land , they could 've just not given any land to poor peasants who were inefficient and given it all to the rich peasants and really gone for a capitalist state . |
| 3 | Odd really , for a couple of Manchester-based people who 've gone for a progressive soul angle and eschewed any trendy trip . |
| 4 | Alexandra had gone for a long walk before replying to this letter . |
| 5 | I had decided that I had to face up to the fact that John might not come back or he might be gone for a long time and that when he did come back we might not love one another . |
| 6 | He had been gone for a long time . |
| 7 | Did you say to her , I 'm going out to re I 'm going out and I may be gone for a long time . |
| 8 | It seems to be gone for a long time . |
| 9 | It had been rather an expensive one as he had gone for a fleecy-lined designer number with flashes of blue , to match his eyes , on the shoulders and down the legs . |
| 10 | They could have gone for a potential Test candidate — like Essex left-arm paceman Mark Ilott . |
| 11 | It 's gone for a big six-cylinder , turbocharged 2. litre diesel engine under the bonnet . |
| 12 | He had gone for a short walk over some fields — his constitutional — and had met a woman pushing a bicycle . |
| 13 | She said where 's that fucking Tara she gone for a fucking blow again and they 're all laughing and she said what are you fucking bastards laughing at and there 's Tara there with tears down her face Tara tried to tell her she fell off the chair well that was it . |
| 14 | or surely we 'd have gone for a different lot , |