Example sentences of "we [vb past] [adv] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We lived together for a while . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ We came here for a purpose . |
| 3 | When we came home for a mid-day dinner , the washing lines in the back garden would be hung with sheets , towels , our clothes , hankies and so on . |
| 4 | We turned round for a look . |
| 5 | We walked round for a bit then we came back and watched The Bug-Eyed Monster Strikes Back on the television . |
| 6 | We walked from Little Thomham to Steams of Shimpling ; and we walked there for a week . |
| 7 | I know that was you but y you do n't , I mean I remember u the fire we used to have here and it was n't till I gave it to a friend , I mean we kept here for a year alright , lucky enough , we did n't use it anyway I gave to a friend who doing car boot , I found it in the attic an he said to me Brenda , he said , did you ever use this fire ? |
| 8 | We sent away for a Plaque Attacker from an advert in your magazine . |
| 9 | On the rare occasions when we went away for a fortnight — to my grandfather 's dank cottage on the Welsh border , land of the slate grey sky — I could hardly wait to get back and listen to the two-weeks ' worth of messages crammed on my answering machine . |
| 10 | And erm and then we went and got my fruit and veg and then we went in Top Marks and got them so we never got we went through for a video really , never got round to looking for a video did we ? |
| 11 | All three of us if we went up for a weekend . |
| 12 | Cos Rita swears she 's been , I mean I was out with her once and we went in for a coffee and we finished , right , and we 're ready to go and I nearly said to her I hate it after you 've finished and Jackie lights up and then I have to sit there while she has a fag |
| 13 | At Easter we went there for a holiday , and often have since . |
| 14 | We used to , we , I used to go when my husband was alive we used to go to erm Devon cos I had a brother living in Devon we used to go there , but er unfortunately I lost him when he was only fifty with a coronary , and so erm , in , cos and after that I lost my husband you see so cos we I 've never been away like that before , not , not since , years ago that was , he 's been gone twenty one years this Christmas sixteenth might be so , I 've not been able to so I , I , I go with the erm , I went with the Red Cross this year the year before last I went erm er , Char Charlie took me away we went to er a chalet we stayed at and er a friend of mine we went there for a week had a week there , that poured of rain every day , this year it poured of rain every day |
| 15 | ‘ We were staying in a hotel in Maidstone and we went back for a meal , then later , about tennish , we sneaked back to see if there was anything going down . |
| 16 | I spent hours and hours around the flat , back of Kings College , Cambridge and er , you see and we , we went sometimes for a service . |
| 17 | We went out for a day — and a night — then he disappeared in a cloud of smoke to get the ferry at Dover . |
| 18 | Ch king prawn chow mein with the noodles and stuff and he had whip marks all over him but anyway I ate all that and I did n't have a sweet , , did n't have a sweet and I we went out for a while and on the way home |
| 19 | We went out for a lunch that was late even by Madrid standards , then went to a zarzueia . |
| 20 | We went out for a meal , and when he took me home he wanted to come in . |
| 21 | I met a friend at the college library and we went out for a coffee . |
| 22 | We stayed in for a week |
| 23 | Then we sat down for a rest under a hedge , and Dana asked that typically American question : ‘ Do you want to talk about it ? ’ |
| 24 | But anyway , this was the first we have such a conference every five years , but over a thousand of us sat around for a week and talked about evolution , and there was one rather curious fact about Vancouver , or the media of Vancouver , during that week . |