Example sentences of "we [verb] for [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We looked for too little back-up , naively taking on too much , like driving the women to and from the centre . |
| 2 | Perhaps we could all be a lot more tolerant of ourselves for sometimes longing to be beautiful if we considered for how many years of our lives this had been held out to us as an ideal . |
| 3 | Whether this means high unemployment depends partly on how this work is distributed ; whether we keep the same working hours that we 've had in the past , for example , whether we work for as many years . |
| 4 | I thought of the chessplayers in the Park , where we sat for so many hours , the chessplayers , more various by far than the pieces they wielded ( the players not erect , not regulated , but mumbling , shambling , rhomboid ) . |
| 5 | Even a heartstopping pause just before ‘ Dieu parmi nous ’ ( also from La nativité ) breaks into dazzling Toccata ( at bar 59 , 5′35″ ) is not totally contradictory to the score — although I doubt whether any other organist would dare to keep us waiting for quite such a long time here . |