Example sentences of "[subord] 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 | 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 | More steam , more dust stirred up until we ran for the door gasping . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 , . |
7 | If we look for the fashion that 's the veneer , it 's the meaning that 's the more important . |
8 | At Telford Fiona Baikie commented , ‘ We worked closely with our Field Officer while we prepared for the visit , and he helped college staff enormously . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 |
11 | We all have to keep up appearances while we wait for the tide to turn . |
12 | While we wait for the doctor 's diagnosis the patient may easily die . |
13 | While we waited for the service to finish we amused ourselves rearranging the flowers on the graves . |
14 | A night-cap was called for before we retired for the evening — where better than the Rovers Return ? |
15 | We have to talk before we leave for the office . ’ |
16 | 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 . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 ) . |
19 | And perhaps we should exercise this idea , this thought when we pray for the salvation of people . |
20 | 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 . ’ |
21 | All this I learn from the bus driver who chats to me as we wait for the traffic ahead to move . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | The grid screen is now shown , 45 squares wide and 38 squares high , as we saw for the intarsia chart printing . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | It is now getting dark as we settle for the night in the German slit trenches and I share a trench with three French Commandos . |
27 | The doctor had fixed it in place in the car , as we waited for the luggage to be stowed . |
28 | poised as we waited for the sound of breaking glass , |
29 | The next morning he came with me to the station , and as we waited for the train , we watched the crowds . |
30 | That day , as we waited for the doctor to come back from the mountains , was one of deep anxiety for the whole family . |