Example sentences of "we [vb mod] [vb infin] [adv prt] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Valeria had asked us for the afternoon and suggested that we should stay on for the evening , as her mother had gone to spend the night with a friend . |
| 2 | Maybe we should listen out for the noise in the voices of Kristin Hersh , Tim Buckley , Prince , Michael Jackson — the way they chew and twist language not for any decipherable , expressive reason , ( that 's to say , not to accentuate more deeply the conventional mannerisms of ‘ passion ’ ) , but for the gratuitous voluptuousness of utterance itself . |
| 3 | There is nothing more important than that we should stick up for the system that we have inherited down the ages , and that still has so much to offer the people of our country . " |
| 4 | Ideally , I suppose , we should look around for the thickest available development of a particular unit if we are to find anything approaching continuous sedimentation . |
| 5 | This is the issue which occupies Anne Phillips , Sylvia Walby and Michèle Barrett in particular , with a certain consensus that , after all , we must hold out for a version of modernism ( against post-modernism ) , and what Phillips calls a ‘ middle route ’ which retains its aspiration to universalism . |
| 6 | Of course we can , he wo n't mind , we know him , just let's go , we 'll stop out for the day , and let's bring it back tomorrow . |
| 7 | We 'll go out for a meal after the performance , ’ said her husband , slitting open the last of his letters . |
| 8 | ‘ We 'll go out for a meal , to a quiet exclusive mirador I know with the most spectacular views across to Cabo de Formentor and then we 'll talk , really talk . ’ |
| 9 | they do n't do enough work to really create any problems today , do you see what they 're to do somebody will say ooh we 'll go out for a ride |
| 10 | We 'll go out for a drive probably out an hour , whereas years ago the horse used to come out the stable at seven in the morning he would n't go back till probably five at night . |
| 11 | cos what we 'll do we 'll go out for a meal in the evening |
| 12 | I 'll get this train stopped and we 'll go back for the lost car . |
| 13 | You know then we thought right , we 're not just gon na forget about this you know , we 'll we 'll carry on for a little while longer and then as soon as the ball really started rolling , er personally I thought well you ca n't back down now , . |
| 14 | Yeah well , I I pick Sue up a bit later and we 'll pop round for a cup of tea . |
| 15 | It is er And get Madge and Tom if you like , er , when we get , we 'll nip over for the week , you know ? |
| 16 | Says yeah alright I says we 'll call in for an hour . |
| 17 | We all thought right okay , we 'll get out for a few days and matters 'll come to a head , get sorted out and we 'd be back at work , happy as anything you know , everything sorted within a couple of weeks . |
| 18 | We 're just taking a bag , we 'll come back for the rest when the wind 's gone down . " |
| 19 | Said oh that 's alright , we 've got some friends coming down this weekend , we 'll come in for a bar snack . |
| 20 | Then I play with the baby and we might go out for a walk or go and see friends — that sort of thing . |
| 21 | ‘ I thought we could go out for a meal , ’ he said folding the paper and slipping it into his jacket pocket . |
| 22 | Maybe we could go out for a drink afterwards ? |
| 23 | He was a very nice man and said we could come in for a chat . |
| 24 | ‘ I was just about to ring you , dear , to see if we could pop over for the day , just to say goodbye — but I 've been so busy these last few days , what with one thing and another . |
| 25 | If I met him we 'd go out for a meal . |
| 26 | Bobby expects to make up a party from the works and we shall come along for an hour or two . ’ |
| 27 | Occasionally , after a particularly trying day , we would go out for a drink together — but no more Apricot Sunsets , thank you very much . |
| 28 | Tonight we can go out for a quiet meal together , and then … ’ |
| 29 | The last I heard Trish was going to become a teacher , I mean I I we are supposed to be trying to think about whether we can have a sh a panel that we of people that we can call on for the short term crisis appointments or whatever , but |
| 30 | You would think that one of us might scurry around for a new word instead of accepting linguistic hand-me-downs . |