Example sentences of "[pron] we [verb] [adv] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Task 44 Extract 1 , for example , we might need to know the political opinions , or temperament , or personal involvement of the person for whom we are writing a report of the demonstration ; and in Extract 2 , a friend with whom we correspond might be nine or ninety , someone we saw last week , or someone we have not seen for decades . |
| 2 | There will be a single budget which we 've always argued for in the management committee the head of centre will and this is very important and I hope members are clear the head of centre which is the head of the Moat Centre which is the proposed under the amendment will be appointed within this financial year , will be appointed out of the existing budget . |
| 3 | That we would wait for our mother to come home from work with ‘ Lucky Packets ’ full of sherbet , that most of our childhood had been outdoors and here we were inside , with our dad home again , our dad who we had n't seen for four years , here we were having crossed the equator with nine suitcases , where flying fish leapt from the sea , to be in this place . |
| 4 | This is something we have all known for the past few months . |
| 5 | What we had n't bargained for was that she might not want to be the next Franz Klammer . |
| 6 | I 'll tell him what we 've already arranged for the week and find out if there are any special requests or queries . |
| 7 | What we have as premiss for the dependent conditional that if it were raining the balcony would be wet is roughly this : in that possible world most like our own in which it is raining , the balcony is wet . |
| 8 | What we did n't know for a long time was that this book is his revenge on his parents . |