Example sentences of "[conj] we [vb past] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was the doctoring that we had for a broken collar bone you see ? |
| 2 | We decided we were n't going to get on without flirting with a lot of trouble , so we opted for the trusty 1-iron again . |
| 3 | But you need real people for a proper gloat so we headed for the cardboard suburb in the Strand . |
| 4 | The colonel gave me a friendly pat on the shoulder , and we made for the outside world again . |
| 5 | And we asked for an extra ten days . |
| 6 | But we went for a long walk and Ally started talking about his work in a way I had n't heard before . |
| 7 | It was hard to know where to start but we went for a private sale and a Mazda 323 on the basis that Dave Baker ( our friend in Christchurch ) has a Mazda 323 and what 's good for Dave is good for us ! |
| 8 | ‘ Like your party trick with the neutrino collectors and the hymetusite : we could n't have scaled it up enough to solve Earth 's energy shortfall , but it could have supported us here whilst we searched for the long-term solution — the high-mass elements in Lucifer 's core . ’ |
| 9 | The station was offered to us for the sum of £20,000 , but when we asked for a private valuation in the hope of securing a loan to purchase the site , the valuer valued the site at only £10,000 . |
| 10 | I began to wonder what was happening when we stood for a long time at Birmingham New Street . |