Example sentences of "[pers pn] have gone [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | how much was n't held until after I 'd gone up for the money for Matthew 's back . |
| 2 | Pat : He was six months old and I 'd gone down for his second immunisation and I mean the doctor I went to see was a family doctor — I 've known him since I was a baby — and he just , he was looking at him and he just said , ‘ Is your husband Chinese ? ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In fact , Paul Hogan does n't know what I 've gone through for him . |
| 5 | Aye , because I 've , I 've gone on for weeks with it , you |
| 6 | So then this fellow comes to the phone , obviously his missus had entered it and he did n't have a bloody clue that she 'd gone in for it and he 'd just come home from work and er Annika Rice there , saying oh where is she ? |
| 7 | You 've gone on for years about being the only person in the West Country with the faintest notion how to prune roses . ’ |
| 8 | These copies are staple check and you are the one which you 've gone back for apply erm I , I 'll with that one . |
| 9 | Do n't tell me you 've gone in for politics . |
| 10 | ( She had gone there for fitting out and trials of Aberporth . ) |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She 's gone over for a closer look . ’ |
| 14 | We 'd gone back for something for them to do something to it , it is the Metropolitan . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Yeah , we 've been out we 've gone out for six weeks tomorrow . |
| 18 | My mother argued for a while that the dry heat was known to be bracing , but Lili went on to speak of rumours of a cholera epidemic in the rural districts and disaffection among the fellahin and I said I would rather go to Bournemouth , which was a black lie but efficacious since we had gone there for our holidays and my mother seemed gratified that I should wish to return . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Then they 'd gone in for a look . |
| 22 | Without exception they were splattered in paint as if they 'd gone in for action art . |
| 23 | They 've gone away for a few days . |
| 24 | So out of that stalemate negotiations have begun and they 've gone on for three years . |
| 25 | they had beautiful clothes and they 've gone on for years like that . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ It has gone on for 15 months and so far most firms have managed to survive , but they ca n't go on like this for ever . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ It has gone on for 15 months and so far most firms have managed to survive , but they ca n't go on like this for ever . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ 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 . |