Example sentences of "[conj] we [verb] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It led to an abandoned fishing hamlet called Hamningberg , where we camped for the night in a grassy field studded with interesting saxifrages and other flowers . |
| 2 | That evening we left Fort St Nogent on a coach for the Gare de Lyons where we embarked for the south of France on an overnight express . |
| 3 | What you are about to suggest , of course , is that we wait for the Kilcharran to come along and hoist the damn thing to the surface . ’ |
| 4 | Erm my understanding of the paper that we had for the seminar was that it discussed the nature of explanation . |
| 5 | The increase in resources that we propose for the Health Service in I 989 will enable the NHS to extend its remarkable record of achievement . |
| 6 | He will know that we propose for the sake of speed and practicality to use an existing valuation register , which everyone agrees exists and can be used . |
| 7 | In Wimsatt 's definition irony is a ‘ cognitive principle which shades off through paradox into the general principle of metaphor ’ ( Wimsatt and Brooks 1957 : 747 ) ; according to Brooks , it is the ‘ most general term that we have for the kind of qualification which the various elements in a context receive from the context ’ ( Brooks 1949 : 191 ) . |
| 8 | I think that the first thing that one would have to say is that we work for the Ministry of Defence , and not the Ministry of War and therefore we are about defence , we 're about the maintenance of peace , erm this you know maintaining of justice etc etc . |
| 9 | The usual convention is to choose the reference point at infinity and choose the corresponding potential ( a ) = 0 , so we get for the potential of a point charge |
| 10 | There was no escape from it and we longed for the luxury of sun glasses or a peaked cap . |
| 11 | I clapped Jamie on the shoulder a couple of times and we made for the street . |
| 12 | and erm in fact , yes , but both of just had died and we sent for the doctor and it 's |
| 13 | Now Lord we ask that the peace that you promise that passes our understanding will keep our hearts and minds in the knowledge and love of God and in its Son , your Son , our Saviour Jesus Christ and we ask for the blessing of you , of the Father upon us , as we continue to serve in your name . |
| 14 | I immediately gestured to the Hurricanes to carry on to Malta by themselves as we were ditching and we turned for the coast ourselves , losing height all the way . |
| 15 | Surkov and Rozanov , escaping from admirers , joined me and we headed for the exit . |
| 16 | The pilot again tipped the canard on the edge of a stall and we dived for the field a second time . |
| 17 | More steam , more dust stirred up until we ran for the door gasping . |
| 18 | The motions of such a body can be calculated classically using Newton 's Laws of Motion , if we assume for the moment that the restoring forces in the connections are of the form where χ is a displacement from equilibrium . |
| 19 | If we write for the quantity of goods transferred from site i to site j ( ) , we are faced with the constraints , for each i = 1 , … , m , . |
| 20 | If we look for the fashion that 's the veneer , it 's the meaning that 's the more important . |
| 21 | At Telford Fiona Baikie commented , ‘ We worked closely with our Field Officer while we prepared for the visit , and he helped college staff enormously . |
| 22 | We can continue debating their demise , while we wait for the day when European taxpayers rather than farmers finally call the day on the common agricultural policy . |
| 23 | While we wait for the pendulum to swing : Gail Counsell warns that house prices could take years to recover after the latest rise in interest rates |
| 24 | We all have to keep up appearances while we wait for the tide to turn . |
| 25 | While we wait for the doctor 's diagnosis the patient may easily die . |
| 26 | While we waited for the service to finish we amused ourselves rearranging the flowers on the graves . |
| 27 | A night-cap was called for before we retired for the evening — where better than the Rovers Return ? |
| 28 | We have to talk before we leave for the office . ’ |
| 29 | I made no comment on this at the time ( though privately I thought it a brash boast ) but when we met for the interview I asked if he had brought the pendulum with him . |
| 30 | Even an ideal concept of income or consumption does not necessarily represent differences in opportunity sets ; and when we allow for the deviation of observable income , or consumption , from the ideal measure , the problems become still more severe . |