Example sentences of "we [verb] [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Now , we advertise repeatedly for any POWs who are in trouble , and we are only too pleased to help them . |
| 2 | We make up for this , however , by an almost psychopathic competitiveness . |
| 3 | After we got over the shock we asked around for other quotes and came up with an initial estimate of £1,000 plus parts , subject to what is found when the engine is taken out , from John Cutler Marine Engineers who were recommended by Sigma Yachts . |
| 4 | ‘ Why do n't we make up for lost time , then , Luke ? |
| 5 | We found a neat village south of Peterlee called Elwick , complete with tree-decked , green , Tabatha Twitchet shop and two super pubs , where we lived uneasily for three years . |
| 6 | Shortly afterwards we moved to , and we lived there for many years . |
| 7 | We lived there for another four years , until it became too difficult for me to manage the stairs . |
| 8 | it was like Jersey , we lived there for twenty , twenty years did n't we ? |
| 9 | We got there for four . |
| 10 | Yeah we got there for ten o'clock and we had to wait till they 'd finished all the out-patients before they 'd let the in-patients . |
| 11 | We sit there for some time but I keep glancing up , and gradually become terrified that the man is somehow not dead or has become a zombie and is climbing back up the shaft towards us , to push the grating up and put his already rotting hands down and grab us both by the hair . |
| 12 | We sit there for half an hour perhaps and log one car , a few walkers , several cows , perhaps a few ghosts . |
| 13 | Roping up , we moved together for 200 to 300 feet to the foot of the first big ice pitch in the corner system . |
| 14 | We slip out for five minutes and the lot will be sold before we get back . ’ |
| 15 | We apologise sincerely for this clerical error , and regret the confusion and inconvenience it has caused . |
| 16 | And er , we stopped there for some time and nothing happened and me dad says Gil ! |
| 17 | The driver 's home was en route so we stopped off for mint tea there . |
| 18 | But we stopped off for half an hour as well . |
| 19 | We roped up for one awkward pitch before reaching the summit , which was now cloaked in thick mist , the weather deteriorating rapidly . |
| 20 | We sailed on for another two weeks . |
| 21 | Like the Friday we break up for half term . |
| 22 | And so , for 500 dense pages , we hang on for grim death as Hughes ' locomotive intelligence hurtles down the track he has set himself . |
| 23 | We look around for white holes and can find none . |
| 24 | That we look not for detailed application of single techniques in a piecemeal fashion , but rather that we look for the general developments from which we can build school specific approaches which translate the experience into usable school practice . |
| 25 | As time was short we walked briskly for 4 hours , before deciding that we would have to set up camp for the night . |
| 26 | England captain Graham Gooch offered no excuses for his team 's humiliating defeat , saying : ‘ We set off for this series with high hopes but nothing has gone right for us . |
| 27 | If you would like to see me on top of Michael 's bonfire ring in and the er th th the more amount of votes we get in for that |
| 28 | We marched together to and from Aldermaston , we worked together for co-operative socialism , we campaigned together for health , welfare , employment , education and housing in our ‘ inner city ’ constituencies . |
| 29 | Then , again inevitably , we turn away for another change of view , perhaps this time towards the Propylaea and Nike Apteros . |
| 30 | It is always pleasant at our large gatherings for the Society to present a unified image which is why we ask particularly for all those taking part in the open classes to wear ALL MEDAU BLUE OR ALL NAVY BLUE . |