Example sentences of "we [vb past] for the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before she reached the precincts of Iona she made the round of the Sound of Mull , called at Tobermory , where she was unnecessarily detained by some shippers not having a lot of sheep waiting ; she sailed up Loch Sunart , got on board part of a flock of sheep at Salen Pier , landed them at Croag in Mull ; and now we made for the Isle of Coll , — the ‘ Sandy Coll ’ Sir Walter speaks of . |
| 2 | all that 's been disclosed is one as far as I know , erm your Lordship can see that I at some stage need to have a look at them , er before I complete in any way so I can cross examine Mr er my Lord may I just say this , on the seventeenth of November , that 's two days ago , we asked for the documents of the necessary twelve M P's two days ago |
| 3 | Naturally Terry had hard-line views on all this , and as we changed for the show on that charged night he proclaimed them to the entire cast , as if he were addressing a meeting . |
| 4 | It led to an abandoned fishing hamlet called Hamningberg , where we camped for the night in a grassy field studded with interesting saxifrages and other flowers . |
| 5 | But as we prepared for the day in the early dawn , with the birds tuning up outside our African ‘ rondavel ’ hut , we both felt impelled to reach the tough core of the Right-wing settlers , Smith 's Rhodesia Front . |
| 6 | We paid for the holiday with just with change out of our pocket |
| 7 | That evening we left Fort St Nogent on a coach for the Gare de Lyons where we embarked for the south of France on an overnight express . |
| 8 | You had to , we worked for the castronery at the back . |
| 9 | We called for the introduction of Green Belts as part of a package of measures designed to revitalise town centres and protect surrounding countryside as green lungs for urban dwellers . |
| 10 | We went for the rate of inflation , and that is what the Sports Council got . |
| 11 | The catechist will read out in the same way as we did for the Celebration of Enrolment , erm whichever catechist is doing will say I present to you and call out a name , and you stand up in your seat with your parents . |
| 12 | Anyway , it 's one of the minor unfortunate facts of life that a detumescing willy is prone to trap stray pube hairs under the foreskin as it scrolls forward again , and that was why I was adjusting my clothing as we braked for the bend above Cairndow . |
| 13 | The doctor had fixed it in place in the car , as we waited for the luggage to be stowed . |
| 14 | ‘ Where did you stay last night ? ’ he asked while we waited for the cameras to be set up . |
| 15 | poised as we waited for the sound of breaking glass , |
| 16 | We longed for the arrival of autumn , but began to doubt that such a season existed in Sudan . |
| 17 | There was no escape from it and we longed for the luxury of sun glasses or a peaked cap . |
| 18 | You would think we all agreed that acting to end third-world poverty was our number one priority , and that we would all , with barely a sigh of regret , give up our cars , our fridge-freezers and dishwashers , would cease commuting and return to live in the cities we abandoned for the good of our children , and would generally resume our lives as good citizens after 13 years in the desert . |
| 19 | We sat for the rest of the evening with that particularly pleasant feeling which comes when the jobs aboard are getting seen to and the heaviest thing you 've lifted , thus far , is a glass . |