Example sentences of "we [verb] [vb pp] [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Ireland last week , we were accused of writing a ‘ dirty ’ book for vulgar gain ( would it have been any better if we 'd done it for charity ? ) and worse , of racism . |
| 2 | Even though we 'd sold it for a ridiculously low . |
| 3 | We 've kept her for bloody eighteen years ! |
| 4 | We 've done it for years , even won the FA Cup , but I do n't now how long I can go on . |
| 5 | For example if you had the London Mozart players here as we frequently did and frequently played to full houses , then even with a hundred percent house there was a subsidy required of something like seven or eight pounds per seat , in order to meet the cost of presenting that particular concert and we 've done it for years but sadly when we had to make cuts that was one of things the board decided they had to cut up they had to save money somehow . |
| 6 | But banks unfortunately do charge , negotiating fee and then interest at exciting rates , erm solicitors will do it sometimes , we 've done it for clients where we know that it 's not too large an amount and we know that there are assets easily obtained because that way the client saves the banks administration fee . |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't think all this will sink in properly until we 've seen her for ourselves . ’ |
| 8 | Well and we 've used it for Well answer is yes but I 'm you know , it 's making sure you get the business . |
| 9 | We we 've used it for things like the street clean |
| 10 | If he does really well he can hope for a bonus of cross-party votes : never mind Patrick 's party label , we 've known him for a long time , we like him and he 's been very helpful . |
| 11 | But even if we 've known him for many years , if we 're committed Christians , if we 've been followers of Jesus , there are occasions , there are times in our life when there is turmoil and there is unrest and if we allow him to se , to take control he is able to bring peace . |
| 12 | He then delivered a heavy hint of the need for reform : ‘ We know the Germans , we 've known them for a long time . |
| 13 | We 've known them for a while , they 've been travelling to games solidly for years and are better fans on that score than I 've ever been . |
| 14 | ‘ It looks as if we 've got you for resisting arrest as well , ’ he told her grimly . |
| 15 | We 've had her for eight years . ’ |
| 16 | Keep putting up , we 've had her for about two years have n't we ? |
| 17 | ‘ Well , we 've had it for several weeks now . ’ |
| 18 | the same a as what Ann had for theirs I mean we 've had it for a year and paid all that rent . |
| 19 | We 've enjoyed this one , we 've had it for two weeks . |
| 20 | We 've had it for years ! |
| 21 | We 've had it for years . |
| 22 | We 've paid them for fifty percent of the F O B costs , er because they said , Unless you pay us , we wo n't load . |
| 23 | I thought of Troy , what we had built her for . |
| 24 | The crux of the matter today is that those children were not listened to or believed when they complained to the very people in whose care we had put them for protection . |
| 25 | We had booked it for Easter in 1962 , along with two friends from Glasgow . |
| 26 | We have heard them for some time ; now we see them , red and white on the green of the plains . |
| 27 | We have liked him for being into free speech and free love , and for what he has to say about convergences of the two , and about the curbs which revolution and its regimes has placed on them . |
| 28 | I was so pleased with this neat and simple control that we have employed it for several other of the key steps in the cascade — finding , for instance , that the increase in dendritic spines occurs only in a remembering and not in an amnesic group . |
| 29 | We have geared them for the charter market . ’ |
| 30 | But we have budgeted it for eighty five K at thirty six per cent and we achieved a hundred and three at thirty eight . |