Example sentences of "we [vb past] [verb] [pron] for [art] " in BNC.

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1 We agreed to have him for a fortnight but when the time came he refused to go , and would be with us yet if it had not been for the First World War and your father having to go …
2 Even though we 'd sold it for a ridiculously low .
3 We decided to hire him for the day , and negotiated a price .
4 in the information so we had to we had to assume one for the purpose of public consultation but we said that the final decision on standards would be taken er in another time .
5 And obviously we would want to take money out of reserves , our original amendment took one point three million pounds out of reserves and it 's interesting to see now that you 're suggesting almost that figure again and yet for years you 've been telling us you ca n't take this money out of the reserves , er you know we had to keep it for a rainy day .
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