Example sentences of "gone out for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thankfully , he had gone out for about an hour . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He went quickly downstairs and left a note for his mother saying that he could n't sleep and had gone out for an early morning bike ride . |
| 4 | We 're chasing up two other people who were at that party , and who both seem to have gone out for the day . |
| 5 | As requested by Mrs Johnson of the Committee for the Preservation of Morals , she drove out to the library , with the intention of asking the chief librarian for information about Ben MacLean , but when she arrived he had gone out for morning coffee . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ How many times have you gone out for romantic dinners with women ? ’ |
| 8 | Obviously he 'd gone out for cigarettes , or lunch — or perhaps — it was a sudden exciting hope — he was upstairs in John 's room , waiting for me there . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She had worn it twice , once when she had gone out for dinner with her father and Leo and on the night of Sylvie 's return from Italy . |
| 11 | He had gone out for air while Mary reverted to her servant role , but an impulse had taken him much further than he anticipated and now that he was on the shoreline he knew that he had followed an instinct which was directing him to resolve this business with Mary . |
| 12 | He 's just gone out for … but I never heard what it was , because I went . |
| 13 | ‘ Gone on holiday , gone out for a walk … ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | After an evening of pleasure and profit with my friends in Bank Street , I had clearly gone out for a drink or two . |
| 16 | The other voice — Caribbean — says : ‘ I reckon he gone out for a packet of chips , ’ and several guys laugh . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | And with his wife gone out for long enough with one of her admirers … |
| 20 | She assumed he had gone out for a reason but became worried and phoned a friend . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Now an appeal has gone out for more than 100 of the former workers to lodge applications for payment , no matter the circumstances of their claim . |
| 23 | He 's gone out for lunch this er |
| 24 | 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 |
| 25 | They 've gone out for a walk to have a cigar but as far we 're concerned they 're not having a cigar . |
| 26 | Oh , service with a smile , he 's probably gone out for a coffee ! |
| 27 | I phoned Kevin , I 've got Kevin 's mum and dad 's phone number off Dave and phoned at home but he 's gone out for the day or something they said . |
| 28 | So they all must have gone out for the dinner . |
| 29 | He 's gone out for a while . |
| 30 | 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 . |