Example sentences of "we [verb] [pron] [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we leave the womb , enter the world and grow , and get over the initial wonder of walking , we change our pre-natal wheelchair for a series of substitute wheelchairs — bicycles , motor-cycles , cars , taxis , buses , trains , aeroplanes — and chairs ( in houses , schools , offices ; anywhere where people gather and sit ) . |
| 2 | We fixed our first session for the following week , and with a little planning there could be a further session before I went back to Bristol for my first day return since being a resident . |
| 3 | We want our own money for the housework we do . |
| 4 | Right it is a hundred miles from King 's Lynn to London , the train takes two hours to do the journey the train does not go at a constant speed , it speeds up sometimes and slows down at other times it also stops at stations on the way and on once of course as it , as it 's stopping it 's going more and more slowly and as it 's er moving off again it starts slowly and starts to go quickly but because it takes two hours in all the train goes a hundred miles in two hours we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 5 | It does n't , sometimes it goes more slowly sometimes it goes more quickly , sometimes it stops but because it takes two hours to do the hundred miles we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 6 | So can we give 'em some bonus for their work up there . |
| 7 | We assess our assistant stewardesses for promotion to other areas of work aboard the cruise ship which makes this job a very good entry level for those who wish to make a career in the industry and we also run a training scheme for our housekeeping department . |
| 8 | First he supported the legislation and then we heard his special pleading for his constituency . |
| 9 | We watched its sedate progress for a while before turning into Grønfjorden and anchoring off Barentsburg . |
| 10 | So may we wish you good luck for the future . |
| 11 | We took our own sandwiches for lunch and a teacher would boil a kettle so we could make tea or cocoa for ourselves . |
| 12 | The current list of benefactors , to whom we offer our profound thanks for their continuing support of the IFSCC , are shown below : |
| 13 | We do it that colour for now , and after we get open and organized , we change to the colour of my choice . ’ |
| 14 | We gave them full marks for originality . |
| 15 | and like six pound something when I , and six pound forty when I had Eran , so I thought if we call it six pounds for a Saturday , when you have Jordan I 'll give you three pound |
| 16 | They 've got oh , ca n't remember what , we had one this morning for bake beans , I ca n't remember what it was . |
| 17 | Beauty is not fixed , or frozen , even though we have our preferred modes for expressing it . |
| 18 | Erm , right on the expenditure side we have our normal subscriptions for the year , A S erm the F B A S which you all know , there 's no strangers here who do n't know what these are the A L A and the Whale and Dolphin er Preservation Society which we have taken on as a personal thing in the , in the er name of the club because it 's cheaper |
| 19 | ‘ We have us some scum for the cooking pot too ! ’ cried Raphaelo Florienborque , who had never strayed into a kitchen in his life . |
| 20 | We considered them exemplary material for a series of CBC radio talks , edited and read by him , and produced by me . |
| 21 | Applying the principle that change in progress is manifested in variation , let us consider its possible implications for spoken variation in ME . |
| 22 | We placed bets on three horses , then decided to allow the gyp or college servant who placed the bets for us to make his own choice for the same amount as each of our three bets . |
| 23 | Thus we can use the existing research to help us find our empirical measures for the effects of client participation on effectiveness in social work , but we have not yet achieved our aim . |