Example sentences of "[subord] we [verb] for the [noun] " 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 | 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 |
| 4 | By midday we were making giant strides , so we headed for the hills and learnt how to herringbone up them and swoosh down them . |
| 5 | More steam , more dust stirred up until we ran for the door gasping . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 , . |
| 8 | If we allow for the expectations of individuals and the values ( valency ) they place on certain outcomes or rewards , then we can propose that the degree to which they will release energy in the pursuit of their goals is a function of their expectations about likely outcomes and the importance they place on those outcomes or rewards : |
| 9 | If we look for the fashion that 's the veneer , it 's the meaning that 's the more important . |
| 10 | At Telford Fiona Baikie commented , ‘ We worked closely with our Field Officer while we prepared for the visit , and he helped college staff enormously . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | We all have to keep up appearances while we wait for the tide to turn . |
| 14 | While we wait for the doctor 's diagnosis the patient may easily die . |
| 15 | While we waited for the service to finish we amused ourselves rearranging the flowers on the graves . |
| 16 | He kissed me in the back of the car while we waited for the others , but nothing moved in me . |
| 17 | ‘ Where did you stay last night ? ’ he asked while we waited for the cameras to be set up . |
| 18 | A night-cap was called for before we retired for the evening — where better than the Rovers Return ? |
| 19 | We have to talk before we leave for the office . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The relationship between k and r is one that can not be guaranteed to hold when we allow for the heterogeneity of capital , as the debate on ‘ 'reswitching ’ has brought out ( see for example Bliss , 1975 , and Harcourt , 1972 ) . |
| 23 | And perhaps we should exercise this idea , this thought when we pray for the salvation of people . |
| 24 | I 'll keep the boy close by me when we look for the treasure ; then , when we have both ship and treasure , we 'll persuade Jim to join us , and give him some of the treasure for all his help . ’ |
| 25 | But for a little moment Martigues still stands , and we drink coffee on the quay as we wait for the boats to come in . |
| 26 | All this I learn from the bus driver who chats to me as we wait for the traffic ahead to move . |
| 27 | Anyway , it 's one of the minor unfortunate facts of life that a detumescing willy is prone to trap stray pube hairs under the foreskin as it scrolls forward again , and that was why I was adjusting my clothing as we braked for the bend above Cairndow . |
| 28 | The grid screen is now shown , 45 squares wide and 38 squares high , as we saw for the intarsia chart printing . |
| 29 | But as we prepared for the day in the early dawn , with the birds tuning up outside our African ‘ rondavel ’ hut , we both felt impelled to reach the tough core of the Right-wing settlers , Smith 's Rhodesia Front . |
| 30 | As we prepare for the future , we thought we 'd take a few minutes to look back — at the first ten years of Central News . |