Example sentences of "[to-vb] we for " in BNC.
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| 1 | All cancellations incur a charge payable by you to compensate us for our offices . |
| 2 | All cancellations incur a charge payable by you to compensate us for our estimated losses and expenses , calculated as shown here as a percentage of the total holiday price of the person(s) making the cancellation , inclusive of all extras except holiday insurance premiums as shown here . |
| 3 | To compensate us for the expense of processing your booking and for the risk that we may not be able to resell the holiday we charge a cancellation fee on the scale shown below . |
| 4 | ‘ The gaffer was ready to hammer us for that but after this result I asked , where are we going next Thursday — a nightclub ? |
| 5 | He finally agreed to meet us for lunch at the Mayflower Hotel , but nothing happened between them . |
| 6 | Those with special techniques or a particular knowledge of equipment , tools , materials , etc. , are also invited to inform us for inclusion on our list of contributors/demonstrators . |
| 7 | I understood him to reproach us for being slow in commissioning the fourth vessel . |
| 8 | Her forehead shines whitely above the dark glasses ; she has not been well but the resting home has allowed her to visit us for the afternoon . |
| 9 | TO our delight Edinburgh 's own novelist Lucilla Andrews accepted and invitation to visit us for a formal presentation of some signed copies of her books . |
| 10 | ‘ Tell the laird , ’ he shouted out , ‘ that we will have him out here , to hear us for himself — that is what we came for and we will stand here till we see him . |
| 11 | What we need to know now is what the Brigadier here is going to give us for lunch . |
| 12 | ‘ We should look to the Holy Spirit to guide us for good news . |
| 13 | William 's victories served to divide us for ever from those wretched people whose popish sedition would undermine the fabric of our world and who were known to hate everything Britain was and stood for . |
| 14 | Namely he has expressed his wish to King Leopold of the Belgians and requested him to press us for a withdrawal . |
| 15 | Billy was a tower of strength in Palace 's two years in the 1st Division , 1979–81 , missing only five of our 84 games there , and then his sturdy and dependable displays helped to keep us from further embarrassment after we had returned to Division Two , so that every Palace fan was sorry to see Billy opt to leave us for Portsmouth in the 1984 close season . |
| 16 | Probably the best measure of Paul 's capabilities is that he was an ever-present member of the side which took the Palace to the 1976 FA Cup semi-finals and of the promotion team of 1976–77 until he chose to leave us for Tampa Bay Rowdies in February 1977 . |
| 17 | I was also dismayed we allowed young Simon Houston , an exciting talented goalkeeper , to leave us for Distillery . |
| 18 | Well our company decided to send us for a fucking first aid course and this , it 's er most embarrassing on this particular night we 'd stopped in er in the Chapel Hill in Lisburn |
| 19 | Er , what we are interested in is what the estimators have thought we 're going to do for labour and what the estimators thought we were going to , it was going to cost us for plant . |
| 20 | It also did something to the plumbing , and it was decided not to keep us for the month we had been promised , but to billet us out to houses nearby . |
| 21 | ‘ The peculiar thing is that Blackbeard seemed ready to murder us for a wallet with a few fivers in it , all of which he was going to give to his bruiser , anyway . |
| 22 | We had only to go for a walk through the empty streets and someone would appear in a doorway to invite us for dinner . |
| 23 | Swimming is probably the best form of exercise you can get , and I doubt Sutton will be able to beat us for fitness . ’ |
| 24 | May we be caring and considerate so that other people trust us and feel proud to have us for friends . |
| 25 | and get another person to sponsor us for that |
| 26 | On Tuesday deliveries of the planings began , and for the rest of the week two of us , both volunteers , drove dumper trucks to deposit the material in small piles , which the bulldozer later smoothed out ( driving dumper trucks proved a popular occupation — there was no shortage of helpers to relieve us for breaks . |
| 27 | ‘ People try to take us for a ride from time to time . |
| 28 | If ever he used to take us for a spare lesson , all he used to do was draw on the blackboard the scrum lineouts and things . |
| 29 | ‘ We took the liberty of asking our friend Percy Hoskins to join us for dinner . |
| 30 | She 's a partner in a firm of solicitors in the High Street — well , she thought you might like to join us for a family Christmas dinner . |