Example sentences of "we [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't know how long we rode for . |
| 2 | We rode for five hours in the rain . |
| 3 | So we rode for Whitton , and were able , as soon as the Welsh were gone , to bring off some of our wounded safely . ’ |
| 4 | With baited breath , we scanned for his answer . |
| 5 | Together with Germany , we fought for tough criteria . |
| 6 | We fought for seven days and |
| 7 | An elective despotism was not the government we fought for ; but one in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among several bodies or magistracies , as that no one could transcend their legal limits , without being effectually checked and restrained by the others . " |
| 8 | We fought for them to come to the Assembly , where they could speak their minds and meet the Africans they never meet , and together listen to the Almighty Who might know better even than they what is best for the country . |
| 9 | On Wednesday 13 February , we met for the second time with pensions as the agenda item . |
| 10 | During those years we met for ‘ reunions ’ in New York and London and it was always wonderful to see her . |
| 11 | Only the Good Christ knows why we met for that . |
| 12 | ‘ Stan called me and we met for a chat at his home . |
| 13 | With an interpreter we met for a drink and he told me that because his home was in East Germany he had been forbidden to travel abroad until quite recently when he became an old-age Pensioner ; this voyage was his first taste of freedom . |
| 14 | I made no comment on this at the time ( though privately I thought it a brash boast ) but when we met for the interview I asked if he had brought the pendulum with him . |
| 15 | We met for the first time just two days before departure and accepted a murderous schedule of four games in 10 days , before opening against the New Zealand provincial champions just two days after a 25 hour journey to Dunedin . |
| 16 | Tamed native birds flocked on the poolside boardwalk of their rented hideaway , ‘ Hawksnest ’ , as we met for the first time , and Robin encircled his shyness with a stream-of-consciousness banter , made easier by the antics of a visiting cocker spaniel , which bit the head off a parrot . |
| 17 | We met for a drink . |
| 18 | On average , we met for three hours every ten days , constantly revising , exchanging and criticising so that in the end we had both had a hand in everything . |
| 19 | ‘ He could have done it beforehand when we met for drinks and everyone 's attention was on Mrs Figgis-Hewett , ’ said Angelina , albeit with a feeling of disloyalty to a fellow female . |
| 20 | We applied for a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund on the basis that its support alone could save the church . |
| 21 | Before learning about our infertility , we had already planned to adopt ‘ hard-to-place ’ children , and so , with little prospect of natural children , we applied for adoption all the sooner . |
| 22 | Our inspector declared her ‘ a fine aircraft ’ ( who were we to disagree with him ) and we applied for her ‘ permit to test fly ’ . |
| 23 | that er , we applied for test of proportionality , the minimum necessary , my Lord this is a , your Lordship 's focus on admission rules which of course different to what we 're concerned with here , admission to the market , erm , and it , it is the minimum necessary to ensure that all those who should be in the market and are capable of competing are in the market . |
| 24 | With small token charges of explosives in our pockets we made for distant roads , railways and bridges , sinking up to our knees in bogs and wading through the icy waters of fast-running burns . |
| 25 | Before she reached the precincts of Iona she made the round of the Sound of Mull , called at Tobermory , where she was unnecessarily detained by some shippers not having a lot of sheep waiting ; she sailed up Loch Sunart , got on board part of a flock of sheep at Salen Pier , landed them at Croag in Mull ; and now we made for the Isle of Coll , — the ‘ Sandy Coll ’ Sir Walter speaks of . |
| 26 | We made for the top front of the vehicle , as this provided the best all-round view . |
| 27 | The colonel gave me a friendly pat on the shoulder , and we made for the outside world again . |
| 28 | As we made for home , and reached the tiny harbour of Tala-Tala , the silence between us was almost strained . |
| 29 | The handicapped children who joined school forced us to look again at the provision we made for children . |
| 30 | I decided to make a development of a circular pedestal table that we made for a client last year . |