Example sentences of "[conj] we [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where we asked for marks out of ten , or thermometer ratings out of a hundred , we can use relative scores for different parties to construct measures of preference . |
| 2 | It led to an abandoned fishing hamlet called Hamningberg , where we camped for the night in a grassy field studded with interesting saxifrages and other flowers . |
| 3 | In the afternoon we visited the Priory ruins where we prayed for unity and for the Decade of Evangelisation and finished off with a lusty rendition of Faith of our Fathers ! |
| 4 | That evening we left Fort St Nogent on a coach for the Gare de Lyons where we embarked for the south of France on an overnight express . |
| 5 | I learned to love what Diana and Mary loved — the little old grey house , the wild open moors around it , and the lonely hills and valleys where we walked for hours . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | After about five minutes we went into the final check room where we stayed for what seemed ages , most of us in our pre-race trances now , nobody speaking , just moving about , staying loose . |
| 8 | We were not far below the hanging glacier bivouac , where we stopped for two hours before pushing on to make the most of the night . |
| 9 | The warmth and affection that we felt for each other will always be with me . |
| 10 | Sometimes we will be going upstairs to get something but , by the time we are there , we have forgotten what it was that we went for . |
| 11 | Now for all those reasons madame speaker , this these orders er er today are inadequate , too little , too late , we ca n't vote against them , much as the the member who preceded me seemed inclined to vote against them and I wish that he had the g er the guts of 'is cu the courage of his convictions er he should vote against them , er we on this side are far more responsible er than that because to vote against them er might be an indication that we 're as much in frau in favour of fraud as members on the other side of the house , er we 're not in favour of fraud , we welcome any progress to detection of fraud , even progress that we asked for five eight years ago when the relevant legislation was passed . |
| 12 | Even in our progressive and sanguine moods , the utmost that we hoped for was a very gradual and a very tentative improvement . |
| 13 | For example , we have found that we can make good businesses by selling services that we developed for use in our own company . |
| 14 | I think what I 'm trying to say is , in the minutes that we produced for the last meeting , it says that a copy of it will be available for the next meeting |
| 15 | Last one this is the these are reports incidentally by er European doctors working in China at the time Another desperate case that we treated for nothing was that of a young man who looked like a skeleton . |
| 16 | " He gave it on the condition that we cared for it and , although my husband already liked gardening , that was what started my interest " . |
| 17 | I decided to make a development of a circular pedestal table that we made for a client last year . |
| 18 | I did n't know at that time what the content of the exhibition was because Sarah who organised it all had to write to lots of people and arrange the loans and you know it is fairly recently that we discovered for example the tate would lend , their pictures because its very rare that they do , erm , and , so we thought the next best thing , when I discovered the change of dates would be to have slides of the pictures that Sue was using , but erm oh dear then wonderful that Sue was using a another book and this term allocated and I was n't able to get the slides she picked , it was my fault that they 're not on slide due to the amount of time that we had to do this . |
| 19 | But that has been in the past and that was a thing that we had for several years had A level plays actually on the stage am I correct ? |
| 20 | That was the doctoring that we had for a broken collar bone you see ? |
| 21 | Erm my understanding of the paper that we had for the seminar was that it discussed the nature of explanation . |
| 22 | And like my parents sort of went , the thought that they gave them money that we had for it , yeah |
| 23 | We 're also taking another four hundred thousand out of budgets that we had for planned improvements in staffing as well . |
| 24 | The overall results at Thunder Bay again favoured Scotland and so it was with a comfortable lead that we left for our final destination . |
| 25 | And er there will also be details about er the targets that we set for that particular project . |
| 26 | At the head of Gunnerside Gill beyond the ruins of Blakethwaite Mine are the ruined dams of Blakethwaite , and it was here that we stopped for our lunch . |
| 27 | Although it looked completely different , it was this truck that gave me the concept for ‘ MiniMag ’ , the 27ft ( 8m ) articulated truck that we used for Mrs Thatcher 's open-air meetings in the 1987 election . |
| 28 | The same sort of reasoning about conjugation that we used for edges shows that we can use this process to restore all the corners , though we do disturb the edges . |
| 29 | We decided to use the same system that we used for hospitals , making referrals to team leaders in the same way that we do to consultants . |
| 30 | Each boy had a inkwell and er a pen , blue-black ink and so on and some of the small books that we used for writing in were kept under the desk . |