Example sentences of "went for " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a young actor you obviously went for a great deal of variety in characters and accents . |
| 2 | Operations manager Siobhan Hunter , who is responsible for the Morgan Grenfell contract , says : ‘ We 've been looking at computers for the past 18 months , and we went for Caterdata , having seen it in action at BE Services , the in-house caterer at the Bank of England . ’ |
| 3 | Marion and her son had an agreeable high tea of poached eggs on toast , tea and cakes , went for a little walk along Old Compton Street and bought some gorgonzola and a pound of cherries before returning to the theatre for the evening show ; he was allowed to watch the first act from the wings before making his way back to Putney on his own . |
| 4 | In fact , I went for the entire two months without seeing anyone . |
| 5 | When I found it , there was an argument and we went for each other . ’ |
| 6 | After returning the van to the hire company , I went for a long walk in Hyde Park . |
| 7 | Jay was now In Love with the impossible Lucy , Dionne went for butch crewcut teenagers , and they hugged each other 's hurt away and made love like some people offer Kleenex and brandy in times of stress . |
| 8 | Dionne went for the outlaw type , or so she said , then mothered and civilised them until they were unrecognisable , and when her dream of civilised and raunchy equality went out the slammed door , there she was alone again , smoking a little more than usual , drinking a little more than necessary and swearing herself to celibacy until the next sulky brow slouched into view and stole her hopeful heart away . |
| 9 | Of course the moth went for the light , Jay went under the pillow , and the moth settled on a huge picture she had of a golden African dawn . |
| 10 | I went for a sup to Widow Duff 's howff , of course — , ‘ Of course . ’ |
| 11 | They went for him then , Alexander and Donald McLaggan , the Duke 's two sons , dragged him from his father 's side so that his head bounced on the steps , lifted him bleeding , like foresters keeping a dying deer clear of the hounds , and started to carry him down to the river ‘ just to cool him off ’ but Cameron ran and gripped Donald 's shoulder and shouted , ‘ If you injure an officer it is treason on top of sedition , ’ so they carried him back and laid him carefully at his father 's feet . |
| 12 | Well , he fired a pistol and someone went for him with the blade of a scythe . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Down at Atholl , when you went for the new blades , ’ his wife answered from beside the fireplace . |
| 14 | Nigel meanwhile went for the beer . |
| 15 | He turned up at the dance studio in a pair of very skimpy tight shorts and observing that everyone else was very white and wore towelling track suits , and seeing that he was very tall and very naked , got nervous so went for a walk and smoked a joint . |
| 16 | After his success in rebuilding morale in Scotland , Chris Green went for the big one — London . |
| 17 | ( More traditional pedagogy went for appreciation rather than analysis , urging the reader to a direct experience of the poem , perhaps inhaling its beauty like the scent of a flower ; but the underlying process was similar . ) |
| 18 | Derek Mountfield and Kevin Gage were horribly out of touch ; the scalpel tongues went for Chris Price in that peculiarly cutting way reserved for baldies playing badly ; and the introduction of Ormondroyd , the forward built like a Handsworth tower block , brought cruelly sarcastic cheers . |
| 19 | And there was prejudice once when I went for a job . |
| 20 | All Scotland 's impressive technique and tactical shrewdness went for nought in the 26th minute , though , when they lost a depressingly poor goal . |
| 21 | ‘ I met new clients which is what I went for . ’ |
| 22 | In vacations he still went for interviews with his psychiatrist , who did not feel that he had quite got ‘ to the bottom of things ’ . |
| 23 | Yet , ironically , Stead 's recollection of Eliot 's walking in the woods , in true Frazerian style , after his baptism at Finstock in Oxfordshire on 29 June 1927 , perceives just the unusual link of savage and city which Eliot might appear to have renounced : ‘ … after dinner we went for a twilight walk through Wychwood , an ancient haunted forest , ‘ savage and enchanted ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ The was just a small knock on the rod and I went for it , ’ said Charlie , from Newport . |
| 25 | We treated ourselves to a reindeer steak , then went for a last walk over the bridge towards the polar Cathedral . |
| 26 | We went for a coffee and Odd-Knut explained his ideas for the trip . |
| 27 | Each time we went for another animal all those left howled and fought their chains to get close to us so as not to be left behind . |
| 28 | To begin with , thieves went for the likes of Golf GTis and BMWs , but now bread-and-butter cars are also being taken . |
| 29 | The same went for the man who complained in the following terms to a local government committee for ‘ Better Football ’ : ‘ I visited the New Stand lavatories . |
| 30 | ‘ So when I went for my regular eye check-up I had no idea that anything was wrong . |