Example sentences of "we [vb past] [adv] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1	Yeah , and we lived there for a long time did n't you , you stayed in that house for a long , long time
2	On our arrival at the Wildfowl Trust Refuge , we headed straight for the STOP-SPOT board in the foyer .
3	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 .
4	We settled instead for a three-hour five-course fish lunch at the Mont Frety in town , not far from the cablecar station .
5	Pipes and cigarettes glowed in the darkness as we settled down for the six-hour passage .
6	We fell out for a little while but I mean , playing loud but I mean upstairs is fine .
7	Then we went back for the long-service merit awards .
8	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 .
9	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 .
10	On my first visit , we sat together for a long time , talking of this and that .

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