Example sentences of "we [verb] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | So we agreed to look for a new approach " . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Today , almost everyone has a refrigerator and we tend to take for granted chilled food and beverages and the storage of perishable foods . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Broad-front exploration is expensive and tedious so we tend to look for some key factor that will simplify the task . |
| 9 | but he 's just said we got invoiced for it . |
| 10 | And we got done for conspiracy to cause GBH . |
| 11 | We got funded for that one though . |
| 12 | Team manager Ken Knott said : ‘ We failed to make the gate first so in many races we got hammered for it . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ When we got married for instance , I had to give up teaching because there was a regulation which said husbands and wives could n't both teach and of course it was the wives who left . ’ |
| 14 | Of course we got paid for that as well . |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ We want to win for as long as we can because it would be a long way to go for just one game . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | 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 " . |
| 23 | ‘ If I tell anyone that we stopped to look for a ghost , they 'll laugh at me , and if I was you , I would n't tell your mates either . |
| 24 | Coming to Old Gang Smelting Mills we stopped to look for a while at the most complete collection of buildings still standing in the mining field , although comparing them now with photographs taken in the 1930s it 's obvious that they 're slowly falling apart . |
| 25 | We ate heartily every night , we could afford croissants at breakfast , and we stopped scrounging for cigarettes . |
| 26 | How much are we prepared to pay for it ? |
| 27 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ It took ages to cross the line , but overall I thought we deserved to win for our battling spirit , ’ he said . |
| 29 | The patients charter sets out clearly the entitlement of a patient and the standard we seek to set for ambulance services . |
| 30 | So we came to look for you . ’ |