Example sentences of "[subord] we [verb] [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wanted a child , so we signed up for the eugenics lottery . |
| 2 | Two cyclists seemed fair game to these pissed idiots so we took off for the hills , only a small range but , we were to discover , quite beautiful . |
| 3 | We were cooking for ourselves so we settled in for the evening and made ourselves comfortable . |
| 4 | ‘ You can stay here until we close up for the night , ’ she said . |
| 5 | Drink 's never been either here or there for me , bar a wee Baileys with my coffee if we go out for a meal and I always buy it in at Christmas , because most women like it . |
| 6 | Okay has anybody else got anything more on that on that subject ? if we go back for a bit and just go back to the |
| 7 | But if we wait patiently for a few picoseconds until the charges rearrange themselves there will be no further motion and the problem belongs to the realm of electrostatics . |
| 8 | All three of us if we went up for a weekend . |
| 9 | ‘ We feel we should fight Mr Butters and let him take on a white elephant while we play elsewhere for a year and maybe we can return to Belle Vue . ’ |
| 10 | This is the moment when we decide whether we go in for a federal Europe or whether we go in for a Europe of member states trading together , competing together , co-operating together . |
| 11 | This is the moment when we decide whether we go in for a federal Europe or whether we go in for a Europe of member states trading together , competing together , co-operating together . |
| 12 | When they reached the stairs , his voice determinedly reasonable , he asked , ‘ Do you want to return to Ca ’ del Leone to shower and change before we go out for a meal ? ’ |
| 13 | It was once more about five minutes before we set out for the alleyway behind the Love Me Tender massage parlor . |
| 14 | On the rare occasions when we went away for a fortnight — to my grandfather 's dank cottage on the Welsh border , land of the slate grey sky — I could hardly wait to get back and listen to the two-weeks ' worth of messages crammed on my answering machine . |
| 15 | When we came home for a mid-day dinner , the washing lines in the back garden would be hung with sheets , towels , our clothes , hankies and so on . |
| 16 | He was born in another age , the age when we played not for a million dollars in prize-money , or television sets , or holidays in the sun , but for the simple , exhilarating pleasure of golf itself . |
| 17 | And so it came to pass that when we broke up for the summer holidays in 1941 , I set off on my bike to the farmer 's new settlement . |
| 18 | ‘ Pushing and shoving among that lot , no fear , ’ I said as we struck out for the woods . |
| 19 | Pipes and cigarettes glowed in the darkness as we settled down for the six-hour passage . |
| 20 | As we trooped in for the service , the sun caught it and , for a moment , I had a virion of what it must have really looked like , all those years ago , when they nailed poor old JC up before the people , one bright day in palestine . |