Example sentences of "[coord] we [verb] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the complexities of circumstance defeat analysis , and we grope for the best prediction or choice attainable , we do not doubt that there is a better founded prediction or better informed choice which no one perhaps will be lucky enough to hit on . |
| 2 | It was exciting — they were good advertisements , and we waited for the first children to come . |
| 3 | The colonel gave me a friendly pat on the shoulder , and we made for the outside world again . |
| 4 | And we hear for the first time of permanent salaried architects . |
| 5 | However , during the fifteenth century changes were introduced and we see for the first time representations of corpses , cadavers and skeletons , and it is from these — usually to be found on memorial brasses , and particularly on those in East Anglia — that we acquire our first glimpse of the English shroud . |