Example sentences of "we [vb base] [vb pp] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We are happy to support local schemes which wo n't worsen our mainstream business , and while hitherto we 've waited for passenger executives or consortiums to come to us with a proposal , we might in the future consider taking more initiative . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ We 've waited for years to have a Formula One world champion like Mansell — and now it looks as though we wo n't be able to use him . |
| 3 | We 've argued for years about meals on wheel service that there should be seven day a week service throughout this authority , we 've only got it in the City , we want it throughout the authority . |
| 4 | The the sort of thing that that I would be if I were in running your function Terry , would be to say , look at this package that we 've developed for P T E stations . |
| 5 | Then , for the following one we bought the first meals on wheels van so that with all the money that we 've collected for Harlow day we bought something out of the money . |
| 6 | It 's been based on jobs we 've done for clients in the past , based on pla past experience . |
| 7 | ‘ We 've gone for promotion all along this season , ’ said Gibson . |
| 8 | Am I allowed to set my own tests , which we 've used for donkey 's years ? |
| 9 | We have released sites er in the countryside and we expect the countryside protection policy to apply outside the urban areas and outside of the sites that we 've allocated for development . |
| 10 | Erm within Ryedale we 've got thirty odd hectares of land which we 've allocated for development in the period up to two thousand and six |
| 11 | But in the short-term AS-levels are the only instrument we 've got for change . ’ |
| 12 | these nice simple laws we 've got for indices . |
| 13 | I 'm happy with the five hundred thousand pounds suggestion , but my view when you come to the papers , if we are able to hold on to the two hundred thousand contingency we 've got for community care for the elderly and , and the hundred thousand we 've got for bad debts and other figures . |
| 14 | Erm , we 've got for friendship , Harlow 's name is mentioned . |
| 15 | Rather than have one large program that offers the sort of facilities we 've described for SideKick and Spotlight you can choose one , or more , of the range and build you own set . |
| 16 | And then when you 're older , scutage , tallage , and how many old goats we 've had for archbishops and popes . |
| 17 | This is the worst snowfall we 've had for years . |
| 18 | Just be very brief , chair , erm could I ask that we have a report before council on this , and I know it will be an extra two hours on the poor council debate , but I think this is so important , and it does affect the planet for hundreds of years to come , and I think if we ca n't have a discussion on this in full council , well , it 's the most important thing we 've had for years probably , and I think we should have a discussion before council sit . |
| 19 | Mm the most we 've had for months . |
| 20 | Yes Chairman i it relates to the the body of the policies in the structure plan and if Aida 's plan generally conforms then we must er issue a statement of general conformity er however if there is a , a problem that we 've had for example about the wording of the reference to the erm East Worthing access road , then although that it 's quite proper for this committee to be concerned about that wording and ultimately possibly even to object to the plan on the basis of the wording , it does n't affect the extent to which the plan conforms or does n't conform with the structure plan overall . |
| 21 | It is just one illustration of the double standards that we have tolerated for generations that , for one and half centuries , the House has rightly imposed the strictest safety rules and regulations on the railways , while doing virtually nothing about the roads . |
| 22 | This is the first inhabited home we have seen for miles . |
| 23 | Those of us who make our own way there have little conception of the anxiety this may induce , unless , perhaps , we have waited for bedpans in hospital . |
| 24 | But all such categorizations are theory-dependent , and on the view that we have adopted for convenience , namely that pragmatics concerns those aspects of meaning and language-structure that can not be captured in a truth-conditional semantics , the grammatical category of deixis will probably be found to straddle the semantics/pragmatics border . |
| 25 | The four that we have , we have stocked for years . |
| 26 | We have assumed for simplicity that the public sector 's current spending of £5,000 million flows entirely into the industrial and commercial sector in return for goods and services . |
| 27 | When Queenie talks about the increased expenditure on recreation from nineteen eighty to now , that 's quite right , there has been a huge increase in spending , and that 's because the Labour Council was committed to improving recreation facilities in the City , and it did n't continue the appalling record that the Conservative administration had had before of virtually no recreational facilities , it invested in recreation facilities — you listed them yourself — and of course those facilities have to be paid for and on when we have stood for election we 've always made it clear that we want to provide quality services , but of course that they have to be paid for , and so the second point that you then made was that , you know , our budget 's gone up beyond belief , well I mean this year it 's being cut by two million pounds , last year it was a standstill budget , and erm that has been done at a time when in fact Central Government has been transferring responsibilities from Central Government onto Local Government without increasing , indeed at the same time decreasing the amount of Central Government grant that 's gone to local councils . |
| 28 | Six patients remained in whom there was no apparent explanation for their DU disease and we have chosen for convenience to refer to these patients as having idiopathic DU . |
| 29 | The members ' status as residual claimants suggests that they have in fact the same interest in profit maximisation as we have postulated for society as a whole , and the incentive to enforce profit maximisation in both their own and the social interest . |
| 30 | We have known for years that there are many wrecks which could be of historical value , telling us about the way in which vessels were constructed and , from their contents , about how ordinary people lived in times past . |