Example sentences of "we [vb base] [adv] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We sit there for some time but I keep glancing up , and gradually become terrified that the man is somehow not dead or has become a zombie and is climbing back up the shaft towards us , to push the grating up and put his already rotting hands down and grab us both by the hair . |
| 2 | Like the Friday we break up for half term . |
| 3 | And so , for 500 dense pages , we hang on for grim death as Hughes ' locomotive intelligence hurtles down the track he has set himself . |
| 4 | That we look not for detailed application of single techniques in a piecemeal fashion , but rather that we look for the general developments from which we can build school specific approaches which translate the experience into usable school practice . |
| 5 | Then , again inevitably , we turn away for another change of view , perhaps this time towards the Propylaea and Nike Apteros . |
| 6 | Er , the Police Authority last year I think actually had to have an extra nine hundred thousand pounds of spending , the budget was funded by the constituent 's authorities , erm , and we 've already for next year in fact , made available effectively six hundred thousand pounds worth of extra spending by erm , various means , so I would hope that erm , the authority does use as , as much prudence and restraint in its financial affairs as possible , because of the , the effects on all , all concerned . |
| 7 | Humiliation of those in power We search diligently for some fault in them and , having found it , we broadcast our discovery through the instantly available and internationally linked media , sometimes with negligible supporting data . |
| 8 | So of course when Tom was put up and er there was about five of us put up for this job , they was all members of that union and I was n't . |
| 9 | ‘ Are you sure you do n't mind having us stay on for another day ? ’ |