Example sentences of "we [verb] [prep] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | We fought like hell for most of the time . |
| 2 | ‘ If we remain in unity for three months then we will win the battle , ’ said Mr Bisztyga at a briefing before yesterday 's Central Committee plenum . |
| 3 | What sense can we make of support for these parties at the polls ? |
| 4 | We lived at Fiesole for a while , then Livorno , Lake Como , Florence again . |
| 5 | Says singer Brett Anderson , at No. 25 with Metal Mickey : ‘ We lived in squalor for a year and a half . |
| 6 | ‘ We lived in India for three years . ’ |
| 7 | We lived in Sadberge for seven years and it 's lovely to come back . |
| 8 | We sit in silence for half a minute . |
| 9 | So we moved to Haddenham for peace and quiet but now it starts here and we 're very frightened we shall be driven away from here because you ca n't live with that noise . |
| 10 | We apologise to customers for the cancellation of breakfast owing to : repair work in the kitchen , staff shortages , a fatality in the cold room , the non-arrival of deliveries . |
| 11 | We apologise to readers for this error . |
| 12 | The Swiss Alps are now our destination where we head for Lucerne for a one night stop . |
| 13 | ‘ This time we rehearsed in England for three weeks and then flew to Houston , Texas , and rehearsed in the Goodyear Blimp hangar , because the screens the band use are so huge that we had to find a place big enough hold them ! |
| 14 | We stopped in Backnong for the last time to do our souvenir shopping then at lunch time started to make our way to Trier , the most westerly town in Germany . |
| 15 | ‘ We depend on Unprofor for oil supplies to fuel the generators around the city , but they only give small amounts and are refusing to give us newsprint . ’ |
| 16 | We depend upon others for this kind of social education throughout life . |
| 17 | And so we sailed on south for some days . |
| 18 | On the way back to Beirut , we stop in Chtaura for tea and our little Christian guide flourishes a tourist map on the back of which is a photograph of a silver-haired , bespectacled man in a dinner jacket and white bow-tie . |
| 19 | We put on tastings for staff as well as customers . |
| 20 | We put on crampons for a steep section , Nathan all excitement at this new level of experience and commitment . |
| 21 | The books and clothes we put into boxes for Oxfam . |
| 22 | We played to capacity for fifteen weeks , made the top ten shows in London , extended for another six weeks , and I never felt a single twinge of boredom . |
| 23 | ‘ We played under tension for 45 days on this tour , ’ said Chandu Borde , the Indian team manager . |
| 24 | It began in April 1820 , when we came to Haworth for the first time … |
| 25 | The Key words in this are ‘ by charitable means ’ and we acknowledged this recently when we appealed for funds for Dowding House under the theme ‘ We honour the dead by helping those who live ’ . |
| 26 | So can we look to China for a real world leader ? |
| 27 | As a community do we work for justice for oppressed people or do we prefer to think of them as lazy and stupid ? |
| 28 | Moving on to structures , and we look to France for the offer of all year round tennis from the makers of the polygonal , aluminium/fabric system , Walu Structures . |
| 29 | We look to Government for a public commitment to maintain this principle . ’ |
| 30 | Yet these matters , it has been suggested , lie deep — indeed , unutterably deep — in every American psyche ; and it is good that from time to time the unutterable be uttered — it is , one might say , one of the things that we look to poets for . |