Example sentences of "we [vb base] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example if we make say for example five pence on the bottle and we or for cap er one of these for twenty bottle tops , that 's a quid which is paid for . |
| 2 | The alternative explanation , involving a change in the rate of momentum loss through electromagnetic radiation or particle outflow might be accompanied by an observable change in the radiation pattern or the braking index ; we intend to search for these in our continued monitoring programme . |
| 3 | The TV items are being selected on the criteria of level of interest and validity as examples of authentic spoken English ie. we tend to go for ordinary people speaking to camera rather than voice over or straight presentation to camera . |
| 4 | For any individual , society is a massive external reality , and it is necessary to emphasise this simply because we tend to take for granted these social arrangements as natural , immovable and inevitable . |
| 5 | Today , almost everyone has a refrigerator and we tend to take for granted chilled food and beverages and the storage of perishable foods . |
| 6 | But even if we tend to look for the scholarly , non-involved biography of the great man or woman we can not be sure that the work will be beyond criticism . |
| 7 | Broad-front exploration is expensive and tedious so we tend to look for some key factor that will simplify the task . |
| 8 | All right , now we 've got pretty well way out — have we been able to reach the furthest objects in space by these methods , or are we stil stuck for a method ? |
| 9 | ‘ We prefer to have working capital rather than interest from money held in a Trust account , so we expect to apply for a bonding arrangement in the future , ’ adds Ms Burrows . |
| 10 | well we 'll have to , I 'll have to go and erm get this dinner going because erm , we 've got to leave about well we want , well we want to leave for about twenty past five then |
| 11 | We want to provide for the children 's cognitive development , yet do not wish to assess them by something they are not fully competent in : the English language . |
| 12 | Your reasons for this colossal exploitation of what is to you hi-tech may be quite divorced from ours ( we want to look for black holes , whereas you want to ascertain the precise time you should sacrifice a virgin in order to propitiate the gods ) , but the principle is much the same . |
| 13 | ‘ We want to win for as long as we can because it would be a long way to go for just one game . |
| 14 | But we have to have some spare capacity in case we want to run for the bus or climb Everest ( where the air is less oxygen-rich ) . |
| 15 | The point we want to make for immediate purposes has to do with the way in which methodological problems arise from particular conceptions of the " order of things " . |
| 16 | ‘ We think the explosion has caused about £15,000 to £20,000 worth of damage but we hope to re-open for business on Friday or Saturday . ’ |
| 17 | The patients charter sets out clearly the entitlement of a patient and the standard we seek to set for ambulance services . |
| 18 | We can not hope to compete with the big stores for plain , cheap knitwear — they can buy their yarn at much better prices than we can and when we add costing for our time we price ourselves out of the market . |
| 19 | However , the basic grammatical distinctions here are the categories of first , second and third person , If we were producing a Componential analysis ( for which see Lyons , 1968 : 470-81 ) of Pronominal systems , the features that we seem to need for the known systems would crucially include : for first person , speaker inclusion ( + 5 ) ; for second person , addressee inclusion ( + A ) ; and for third Person , speaker and addressee exclusion ( - S , A ) ( see Burling , 1970 : 14-17 ; Ingram , 1978 ) . |
| 20 | WE SET SAIL for Europe in the summer of 1948 — for Europe , and for war . |
| 21 | Yeah the the the amount of phone calls we get asking for P C , for P C , for P C , for P C , er for P C is quite incredible . |
| 22 | In other words , we get paid for it , and er , that 's very satisfactory . |
| 23 | We decide to go for a ride on the lake and rush to harness the dogs . |
| 24 | We decide to look for a connection between types of advert and types of metaphor . |
| 25 | The Ego is constantly chattering about its fears , worries and doubts , cluttering up our head with thoughts that go nowhere — just in case we decide to think for ourselves , to question , to explore new possibilities , to feel our suppressed emotions , to reach beyond our old ways of being , to develop a new vision . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm confident we have nothing to fear in the market place provided we continue to aim for the type of quality sheep that we have seen in the best forward at Stoneleigh . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ He outstrips the categories we keep invoking for him , such as ‘ doyen of the Ulster poets ’ or ‘ conscience of the planter tradition ’ . |
| 28 | We stay kissing for a bit . |
| 29 | But there is no kind of crisis going on , except perhaps in the environmental or ecological area and in our own minds when we try to secure for ourselves what we can not have : namely a zero risk . |
| 30 | ‘ We try to compensate for missed experiences and help them behave in age-appropriate ways . |