Example sentences of "we [vb base] for the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | We pray for the general synod as it meets shortly , for wise decisions and clear leadership . |
| 32 | We pray first for our own country , and ask your blessing on those who lead us ; we pray for Elizabeth our queen , that You will bless and guide her in all her responsibilities in this land and in the Commonwealth ; we pray for the Prime Minister and all his cabinet , that they may have your wisdom in the government of the country ; we pray for the leaders of the nations , and especially for areas where there is strife . |
| 33 | We pray for those who have been called to serve you full-time , and in particular we pray for the Christian workers in the city of Exeter . |
| 34 | We pray for the next generation of ministers in the church and ask that you will be raising up men and women who are prepared to take pastoral responsibility for your people , as missionaries and as ministers . |
| 35 | We search for the other half , consciously or unconsciously . |
| 36 | However , during the fifteenth century changes were introduced and we see for the first time representations of corpses , cadavers and skeletons , and it is from these — usually to be found on memorial brasses , and particularly on those in East Anglia — that we acquire our first glimpse of the English shroud . |
| 37 | Six opposition leaders representing Kurds , Shias and Sunnis met US Secretary of State James Baker in Washington on July 29 to seek US support for the Iraqi opposition . |
| 38 | And somehow , from the warmth we all feel for the soundtracks of our adolescence and the prevalent loathing some of us feel for the current torpor of the charts , he has managed to fashion something comically incendiary . |