Example sentences of "[adv] we [verb] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No the the bills are met by er on the territorial funding basis so basically we pay for the work done in the U K. |
| 2 | No the , the bills are met by er on the territorial funding basis so basically we pay for the work done in the U K. |
| 3 | We 'd have got here sooner only we stopped for a bite of something . |
| 4 | So we went for a shellac finish . |
| 5 | So we charge for the time we go to the first address pick the thing up go to the second unload and get back to depot . |
| 6 | So we apologise for the standard of typing … |
| 7 | Finally we asked for a change in the wording of supplementary benefit law which would abolish the term ‘ cohabitation ’ , with its sexual connotations , and substitute what seemed the more decent and objective phrase , ‘ living together as husband and wife ’ . |
| 8 | But once we allow for the shuffling of genes , there is a whole new set of possibilities . |
| 9 | Yesterday we called for the Attorney General , Sir Nicholas Lyell , to examine Courtney 's case following his conviction 15 days ago for two rapes and two indecent assaults . |
| 10 | Eventually we settled for a base at Ardrossan which was not too bad in later years when we had acquired much faster cutters . |
| 11 | The bubbling song of whimbrel mingled with the excited yelping of breeding redshank could be heard whenever we stopped for a break . |
| 12 | Now we wait for the call from the bigger TV companies , who will obviously want a talented team such as us for one , or all , of their quiz shows . |
| 13 | Well we do for a swim we 're going to a |
| 14 | I was , I was off on , on Sunday , I mean I 've joined yet another marriage agency , off on last Sunday to Latherham , with another nice old chap , you know , erm , I , I go out with erm , women friends , we , I 've arranged , er there 's one very , very good place that does lunches , run by a couple of homosexuals and erm , old age pensioners on Tuesday get , get a lunch , an eight pound lunch , for four pounds , so four friends , three friends and myself are going for a special Christmas lunch that they do , fortnight ago we went for a lunch with the group of the town 's women 's guild and friends , erm , my women 's group that I belong to over at the village of which is run by the television actress er Helen Fraser |
| 15 | Are n't we booked for a game of croquet ? |
| 16 | ‘ Well , why do n't we meet for a drink ? |
| 17 | I am — look , why do n't we meet for a drink soon and talk face to face ? |
| 18 | Why do n't we meet for a drink this evening to discuss it ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Look , why do n't we go for a drink tonight and then we 'll talk . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Should n't we go for the midwife ? ’ |
| 21 | I 'll tell you what , why do n't we toss for the piano ? ’ |
| 22 | Then we went for a walk out in the garden . |
| 23 | And then we paid for a winter clean . |
| 24 | If I did manage to get the rubber disc in now , but then he arrived an hour or two late , and then we went out for a romantic candle-lit dinner , and then we chatted for a while … the spermicide would have decided to cease hostilities at just about the time I needed it to be at its most fierce . |
| 25 | There we halted for a moment , lying down in the craters , almost in peace . |
| 26 | There was another track after ‘ Happy Hour ’ that we could have put out that probably would have done just as well , but instead we went for a ballad , ‘ Think For A Minute ’ , to make people think , ‘ Jesus , there 's more to this group than I 'd thought ’ . |
| 27 | She 'd been with us for a year when we went for a day 's walk in the country . |
| 28 | The closest I ever got to you was when we went for a spin on your motor bike , with me like a ravished flapper on the pillion , legitimately clinging to your lissom waist , to those two wonderful hip-bones I loved to hold , as if they were the very hinges of heaven , whose wind blew your hair back into my ecstatic face : |
| 29 | Again we apologise for the inconvenience . |
| 30 | Afterwards we went for a pizza at — of all places — Al Forno . |