Example sentences of "we [verb] [adv prt] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got on before I could change my mind and we bounced around for a few minutes . |
| 2 | So we came about for the last time , since we were now south of the entrance , and motorsailed north , a little further off , to give the rock a good clearance . |
| 3 | We set off for a five mile run in the woods to the south of the camp . |
| 4 | So we set off for a last look round . |
| 5 | FOLLOWING two years of fund raising and six to eight weeks hard net practice we set off for the Far East on December 16 , 1991 for a combined cricket and hockey tour . |
| 6 | Refreshed , and filled once again with energy we set off for the second time that day . |
| 7 | Malc 's parents moved into our house to look after Lee and Max and loaded with amps , speakers and suitcases , we set off for the first of twelve gigs — a Sunday lunch , one spot , fourteen quid — money for old rope . |
| 8 | If he had his way , and we signed up for the social chapter , those extra costs would have to be met out of those pay packets and there 'd be even less for people to take in wages so the honourable gentleman should n't be complaining about low pay when he wants to add to the costs of employment along with the rest of his party . |
| 9 | Pipes and cigarettes glowed in the darkness as we settled down for the six-hour passage . |
| 10 | We fell out for a little while but I mean , playing loud but I mean upstairs is fine . |
| 11 | On every leg they gave us a cheese roll and several cups of coffee , and by the time we took off for the third time we were wearing a rut in the carpet down the aisle to the tail-end gents . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | We went in for a closer look . |
| 14 | Then we went back for the long-service merit awards . |
| 15 | If I did manage to get the rubber disc in now , but then he arrived an hour or two late , and then we went out for a romantic candle-lit dinner , and then we chatted for a while … the spermicide would have decided to cease hostilities at just about the time I needed it to be at its most fierce . |
| 16 | They were but it , well it was an event , a big event in , in the , among the younger people anyway in Brooks in Willenhall then and er it was really lovely , really lovely I forget if we had to pay to go in , but er we had er we saved up for a good few weeks before , so that we would have some money to spend at the Wakes it was one of the an event of the year then , but erm I used to like Willenhall Wakes and er I used to go dancing a lot well I was allowed to go dancing cos I 've always loved singing and dancing you see and er I was allowed but I had to be home before my father got home , but I was n't always . |
| 17 | We carried on for a few more yards , then retraced our steps down to the main level and back out into the sunshine . |