Example sentences of "we [vb past] for the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We met for the first time just two days before departure and accepted a murderous schedule of four games in 10 days , before opening against the New Zealand provincial champions just two days after a 25 hour journey to Dunedin . |
| 2 | Tamed native birds flocked on the poolside boardwalk of their rented hideaway , ‘ Hawksnest ’ , as we met for the first time , and Robin encircled his shyness with a stream-of-consciousness banter , made easier by the antics of a visiting cocker spaniel , which bit the head off a parrot . |
| 3 | On Wednesday 13 February , we met for the second time with pensions as the agenda item . |
| 4 | The colonel gave me a friendly pat on the shoulder , and we made for the outside world again . |
| 5 | We made for the top front of the vehicle , as this provided the best all-round view . |
| 6 | I think what I 'm trying to say is , in the minutes that we produced for the last meeting , it says that a copy of it will be available for the next meeting |
| 7 | We qualified for the European championship without him , so we do n't have to take risks . ’ |
| 8 | This is a combination of the list we used for the first plan and the list used for the draft of the second plan . |
| 9 | We headed for the 4th Squadron where we had been officially invited by some of the English members . |
| 10 | But you need real people for a proper gloat so we headed for the cardboard suburb in the Strand . |
| 11 | ‘ We tried for the best part of 18 months to get Dowty to agree to a friendly deal , but both the old chairman , Lord Harrowby , and the new chairman , Roy Roberts , refused . |
| 12 | We played for the British ambassador and some Irish teachers and workers who were out there . |
| 13 | We decided we were n't going to get on without flirting with a lot of trouble , so we opted for the trusty 1-iron again . |
| 14 | A major emphasis was placed on Intercession and listening to God This was invaluable as we prepared for the first section of outreach in Budapest , Hungary . |
| 15 | ‘ We opened for the first time and we 're doing extremely well , ’ said assistant manager Greg Hughes . |
| 16 | Talking of Lester Piggott he of course was the winner of the first ever Channel Four personality of the year trophy which we awarded for the first time last year . |
| 17 | ‘ The night we kissed for the first time . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've got the tickets we ordered for the Welsh match at Twickenham next month . |
| 19 | We talked for the first time about poetry , poets and our own poems : |
| 20 | So we settled for the International Press Centre … |
| 21 | If we had played for the whole 90 minutes as we did for the first hour we would have beaten Rangers . ’ |
| 22 | I hope that future generations will never have to suffer the , and endure the noise that we did for the same purpose . |
| 23 | However , the figure we gave for the annual input of carbon into the soil ( 1.2 tonnes of carbon per hectare per year ) include the carbon contributed by algae and photosynthetic bacteria . |
| 24 | We learned for the second time that old London Underground trains never die : they are sold for another quarter-century 's work on the Isle of Wight . |
| 25 | ‘ Like your party trick with the neutrino collectors and the hymetusite : we could n't have scaled it up enough to solve Earth 's energy shortfall , but it could have supported us here whilst we searched for the long-term solution — the high-mass elements in Lucifer 's core . ’ |
| 26 | We searched for the optical companion to the pulsar on the relevant UKSTU J-survey plate . |