Example sentences of "i went [adv prt] for a " in BNC.

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1 I got an elbow in the face as I went up for a header and I remember putting my head down and running straight into Bull 's back .
2 I went up for a weekend .
3 I went up for a closer look .
4 On the other hand , after a glance at ‘ Luck of the Legion ’ , I went about for a week with a white handkerchief tucked into the back of my cap , ordering the dog to about-face or wooing it with words of French culled from the strip ( ‘ Oo-ee , mon pet it ’ ) .
5 I went out for a walk , then picked blackberries on Periton Hill , in that far clump at the edge of the downs .
6 I went out for a walk because I could n't stand being indoors .
7 I went out for a drink just after seven — at the Sir Richard Steele on Haverstock Hill .
8 I went out for a walk yesterday .
9 I mean , I ended up staying a month at some bloke 's house after I went in for a pack of strings !
10 So I went in for a scholarship with the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts .
11 ‘ I had a cartilage operation three and a half years ago , and I went in for a tackle just before Christmas and damaged it again .
12 I went in for a tackle with Brian Mooney and I came off worse because I broke my right leg .
13 While I 'm digging that garden she used to go out roll in the trench what I 'd dug and soon as I went in for a drink she was in there before me !
14 Eventually the dinner broke up and Claud , Roger Hollis and I went off for a pub-crawl which after sundry indecorous adventures ended up at the Hypocrites where another blind was going on .
15 I went back for a couple of months this summer for the first time in four years .
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