Example sentences of "we [vb base] [vb pp] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's six foot two , blue eyes and curly hair , and all the girls are mad jealous because we 've fallen for each other . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm not leaving here until we 've done for that bastard . |
| 3 | I speak on behalf of Playback not as Playback itself , but as Playback being part of the Regional Council that can a bit , now I was at a meeting this morning where I , I sort of absolutely had to read the riot act about Playback because they do not have a set budget whether you know this or not , they do n't have a standard budget as they should have , we 've fought for this for years , what we do is , we survive through crisis to crisis , now some money has been extracted from the Playback budget and whilst I have to share two bits of Playback , you know , the , the actual Playback charitable , voluntary bit , and the Regional Council , I mean they , I , I can say that they do not have a backing of money that they can fall back on , too many backs there , but I mean really I would say that I would be concerned if it was Christmas before we were ready , I , I ca n't help but think if we could and I mean , very , very happy to work with , with anybody and everybody on this to try and get these things pulled up quite quickly , I mean if it 's forms to be filled in then |
| 4 | because if one division , we know how many , each d i if we 've got for each division the number of agreements , the number of sessions , the number of staff we 've got three common factors , different numbers obviously |
| 5 | " We think Silverweed is one of the best poets we 've had for many months , " said Cowslip . |
| 6 | In fact , the light weight , the attractive looks , the easy-feeling neck and the light , low action make it one of the most pick-up-able guitars we 've had for some time . |
| 7 | If one person is prevented getting AIDS by this officer , we 've paid for that person for two years , and I think practically every one of these posts that Queenie takes great offence at is producing a useful end product , and the other point is that Government legislation year after year after year puts more responsibilities on the City Council , the new Environmental Protection Act is a good example . |
| 8 | If you actually look at what we 've paid for some of the players say over the last two or three years , I guess you 're looking at about three hundred and fifty thousand pounds . |
| 9 | John Tame , chief accountant for the Cancer Relief Macmillan Fund , which was awarded first prize in Category 1 ( best report and accounts from a charity with income over £1m ) , explains : ‘ We 've entered for many years . |
| 10 | ‘ I have to admit we let him down over the gearbox which was slipping out of sixth gear and we have apologised for that . |
| 11 | The interest rates in this country are now down to their lowest differential with those on the continent that we have seen for many years . |
| 12 | Garden Life could turn out to be the most valuable contribution to conservation we have seen for some time . |
| 13 | President Michael Ainslie noted ‘ a greater level of consignment activity than we have seen for some time . |
| 14 | One of the most blatant and invidious pieces of political skulduggery we have seen for some time . |
| 15 | And so we have lived for many an age . ’ |
| 16 | It will be helpful to set them in the context of the legislative framework which we have applied for many years . |
| 17 | As you are aware we will not be receiving all of the Grant that we have applied for this year and have been told by the Sports Council that our Grant is to be reduced over the next 3 years and then cease . |
| 18 | We have argued for many years that the present discrimination on the grounds of sex and state pensions and retirement age is unjustifiable . |
| 19 | figure is the highest level that we have granted for any riot expenditure , and could involve a sum of between £5 million and £7 million , depending on the claims . |
| 20 | ‘ We have waited for this moment for 28 years . |
| 21 | We have waited for some time for any scheme , let alone one that would justify being called better than the proposals of 1979 . |
| 22 | Libraries are rapidly accepting the doctrine for which we have contended for many years . |
| 23 | One practice we have followed for some time in mid-week housegroups is to follow up and apply further what has been taught on Sunday . |
| 24 | But even when we have allowed for this , there is no ready way of defining the category ‘ art ’ from these undoubted and general human perceptions , which we are bound to recognize as more widely applicable and thus not reducible to a specialization . |
| 25 | Erm well slightly different in the fact that er we er have two close schemes with far more er beneficiaries than there are er subscribing members , and at the moment that are four nominated by the er employer and four by the unions er we wish to say a pensioner erm that the rights were a pensioner nominee to that board of trustees , because we feel that er the situation is er is going to increase , we 've got so many beneficiaries and that the pensioners have no representative er I know that erm people on the boards of trustees are completely impartial , but on the other hand there is no pensioner there , the members are unsure of the fund , because of what 's been said , not that I 'm implying it 's not a secure fund , it is a secure fund , but they think why are they keeping the pensioners off , they there is some sort of hidden agenda they will not have us on there because neither of the businesses although we have tried for several years er they will not entertain at the moment erm a pensioner trustee , and yet Professor Good in his report acknowledges the merit of pensioner nominated trustees , er particularly in the sort of schemes where we 've got , wh where th the majority of beneficiaries . |
| 26 | The Major , a close confidant of the Princess , added : ‘ We have known for some time that some very senior members of the IOC have the knives out for our sport . |
| 27 | We have known for some time that this can not have been the case . |
| 28 | ‘ The decision to print elsewhere was a commercial one , for we have known for some time that the quality of our printing of newspapers leaves a lot to be desired , while our commercial printing side is first class . |