Example sentences of "[noun] [subord] we are [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may tell Lady Amelia where we are going for our walk and that we will return shortly . ’ |
| 2 | We look and listen with more attention if we are viewing for a purpose . |
| 3 | We have a signal when we are going for them and it is up to me to go in and score . |
| 4 | Western science — like our medicine — is notoriously dismissive of anything that smacks of the spiritual life that our civilisation seems so carelessly to have thrown away.Yet if we are to survive for another thousand years , we desperately need to rediscover this aspect of being human ; not only as a reaction to the yuppie ‘ me first ’ generation of the Eighties but as the only means of re-establishing the synergy between man and planet.This requires a radical shift in our attitudes . |
| 5 | My car is clamped two hours before we are to leave for Holyhead , though lifted within the hour , after much persuasion and a torrid sobbing session at the clamping office . |