Example sentences of "we [vb past] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So we rode for Whitton , and were able , as soon as the Welsh were gone , to bring off some of our wounded safely . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | As we made for home , and reached the tiny harbour of Tala-Tala , the silence between us was almost strained . |
| 6 | The handicapped children who joined school forced us to look again at the provision we made for children . |
| 7 | So he told me in the diner to which we resorted for coffee and blueberry pie . |
| 8 | We asked for thermometer ratings ( out of 100 ) for how warm people felt towards parties and their leaders . |
| 9 | we asked for space , and they said oh mid April , and that actually is the next schedule step down action and that 's going to be on Europe and that 'll run from April till June , erm but from now till April if anybody would like to write the country which is Chile and this is because they 're , they suppose that they have extend the death penalty in Chile to include the murder of an off duty police witnesses , at the moment it 's only erm , the death penalty only exists for on duty police officers |
| 10 | ‘ We asked for permission during the day and could n't get it , ’ Vincent protested . |
| 11 | Whenever we asked for reassurance , Mr Smith assured us that his tribal chiefs were loyal to him and would vote for whatever agreement he advised them to . |
| 12 | We asked for guidance as to how this may work following local government reorganisation . |
| 13 | Mahmoud came in again later on and when we asked for books he said that we could have encyclopedias . |
| 14 | Because we , we had this when , when we carried out a political fund ballot erm and we asked for time off for stewards to go and talk to members and we asked for time off for a seminar , for a one day seminar . |
| 15 | Because we , we had this when , when we carried out a political fund ballot erm and we asked for time off for stewards to go and talk to members and we asked for time off for a seminar , for a one day seminar . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ That is something we asked for years ago which has not been implemented , particularly because Dublin is not prepared to co-operate with London in what they would see as interning Irish citizens on Irish soil . |
| 18 | With mainsail set and at full throttle we steamed for home . |
| 19 | It 's expensive though is n't it ? something like , we got for Emma you know , a bit , but not quite so expensive maybe . |
| 20 | But Whiteside points out : ‘ Remember how we qualified for Mexico in 1986 ? |
| 21 | But beneath his flippancy was a real sympathy for what we were trying to do and an appreciation of the common aims we shared for work in the schools . |
| 22 | Uncoached I was at least able to survive a couple of rounds in the local tournaments ; a stroke of luck at this stage was that I was paired with a newcomer to the Command — a FIt Lt Reep who was in a different league to mine — and we entered for competitions and this raised my game quite a bit . |
| 23 | Jessica , a petite blonde with the voice of an angel , was most kind , considerate and friendly ; we posed for photos with the director and announcer . |
| 24 | Oh I ca n't remember you know what we used for Ormskirk |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ We could only find one orginal frame , which we used for Summer , so we had three replicas hand carved for Spring , Autumn and Winter . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The house seemed quite grand but we only stayed one night as the following afternoon we entrained for Preston , a journey that took so long , I wondered if we would ever arrive . |
| 30 | p.p.s have I got the figures about right for how much we payed for players — Beeney ( .35m ) , Kelly ( 0 ) , Dorigo ( 1.3 ) , Fairclough ( .6 ) , Wetherall ( .15 ) , Strach ( .3 ) , Speed ( 0 ) , Macca ( 1.3 ) , White ( 1.25 — this is the one I 'm most unsure of ) , Wallace ( 1.6 ) and Deane ( 2.9 ) ? |