Example sentences of "we [adv] [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The call was reflected in the name we eventually chose for the church : Cranham Community Church . |
| 2 | Well , no , we are governed by our Annual General Meeting , but it 's not unrealistic to ask for double figures , because basically we were talking in that vein last year , and of course we eventually settled for 8.8 . |
| 3 | But we only went for half a day at that period and then for a month or so then the troops went away again , we got back into our own school . |
| 4 | We only went for two days . |
| 5 | We only knew for certain that there was something strange afoot when we heard the sounds of a train being marshalled and it started coming towards the hostel , what is more terrifying was that it was coming on a non-existent track ! |
| 6 | Why can I read you like a book , when we only met for the first time four days ago ? |
| 7 | We only broke for the night on the promise of a further meeting next day together with social security officials . |
| 8 | ‘ We just came for five years … ’ : writings about young life in Jamaica and adult life in England . |
| 9 | ‘ John 's method of working would be : ‘ Okay , this is in C , ’ and unless it had abnormal changes we just went for it . |
| 10 | ‘ In the race we just went for them . |
| 11 | ‘ The Italians were bigger , stronger and older than us but in the end we just went for their throats . |
| 12 | and er we just went for about ten minutes , but she 's alright in herself |
| 13 | That 's like erm , with that Pretty Woman , two people asked us to tape it , I thought well there 's no way we can do it , cos we just taped for ourself , they 'll just have to borrow it . |
| 14 | We finally settled for a modern house in a village three miles away , where I am still living . |
| 15 | And the overall groupings which we finally evolved for this book in terms of life focus also turn out to be remarkably close to the clusters of life styles picked out in an earlier American study taking just this perspective , Robert Williams and Claudine Wirths 's Lives through the Years . |
| 16 | In the Berlin orchestra we always looked for greater knowledge and better players but maintaining standards is always going to be difficult . |
| 17 | We deliberately went for a position of responsibility and moderation in this argument , where if I may say so , some other people have n't put the same constraints on themselves . |
| 18 | ‘ What has happened to our country , to the values we used to share , to the success and prosperity we once took for granted ? ’ |
| 19 | And give us back the pride and the credibility that we once took for granted as trade unionists but we allowed to slip away from us , and make us a force to be reckoned with , and send this government a message , we 'll never allow anyone at Westminster to tell us how to run the G M B , we 'll never allow anyone at Westminster to prevent us from protecting our brothers and sisters and we 'll no never ever allow anyone at Westminster to defeat the trade union movement . |
| 20 | We still worked for our own papers but pooled our resources when it came to the human-interest pieces for the Sundays . |
| 21 | He would even throw chairs , and when this happened we quickly made for the exit . |
| 22 | But as well as the playing being better , we also went for a lot of different arrangements and different sounds , using a whole variety of guitars . |
| 23 | Can we in the alternative put our case if that is a fait accompli then there must be something for the local communities to be derived from this and therefore we went for protection under one O six agreement as Stewart quite rightly refers to and we also went for the dedication of large areas of the resultant heap for landscaping and for public open space . |
| 24 | We also looked for a geographical spread of writers . |
| 25 | We also looked for unpublished trials but found none . |
| 26 | This is that for your Lordships ' House to recognise such a principle would overstep the boundary which we traditionally set for ourselves , separating the legitimate development of the law by the judges from legislation . |
| 27 | During those days , we often prayed for our friends in Africa ; but it seemed unlikely that I could ever be trusted to return . |
| 28 | Well of course she came running to me , you see , and we immediately phoned for the doctor , you see but , however , and I said , look , phone for the doctor , I said , and then I said go across to the railway police just across the yard and I asked one of them to come to me and I said I will go up with her and be with her until the doctor arrived , er he was with her the police sergeant when she died . |
| 29 | We broke nuts and bones with rocks , and we even fished for termites with sticks , the way chimps do . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ We simply paid for a month 's advertising which has not run out . ’ |