Example sentences of "we [verb] [verb] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But even if we tend to look for the scholarly , non-involved biography of the great man or woman we can not be sure that the work will be beyond criticism . |
| 2 | He 'd come half past seven to eight to pay us as we came to work , to hand us the money we 'd earnt for the last week , always keeping about three days in hand . |
| 3 | However , the basic grammatical distinctions here are the categories of first , second and third person , If we were producing a Componential analysis ( for which see Lyons , 1968 : 470-81 ) of Pronominal systems , the features that we seem to need for the known systems would crucially include : for first person , speaker inclusion ( + 5 ) ; for second person , addressee inclusion ( + A ) ; and for third Person , speaker and addressee exclusion ( - S , A ) ( see Burling , 1970 : 14-17 ; Ingram , 1978 ) . |
| 4 | From the time of the Anschluss in March 1938 , until the outbreak of war in September 1939 , hopes of peace gradually faded and we began to prepare for the grim reality . |
| 5 | ‘ We aim to care for the local communities in which we operate . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ We aim to care for the local communities in which we operate . ’ |
| 7 | In this study we aimed to record for the first time patterns of UOS motility associated with occurrence of GOR in children referred for evaluation of suspected disorders of oesophageal motility including pathological gastro-oesophageal reflux . |
| 8 | We learned to look for the black tongue , water that would take us between rocks . |
| 9 | Figures we 've obtained for the first three months of this year show astonishing variations in cautioning rates across Kent . |
| 10 | Erm and how we can speak to time and how we can control that time and make sure that even with interruptions which is what in a way what a meeting is about a discussion , that we 're able to stick to the time that we 've allocated for the particular meeting or presentation that we 've got . |
| 11 | What we 've got for the first time I suspect , since any of you joined this company and you take the experience over there as well , is that the time you spend two days together , and actually find out what it is that makes you go and I do n't suppose that happens often , , dropped you off the boat together for more than two hours at a time . |
| 12 | There , I would dissect the brains into the same crudely defined regions we had adopted for the imprinting studies and do the biochemistry . |
| 13 | Bush droned on about good and evil , right and wrong , Hitler , Munich , appeasement , using all the same phrases that most of us thought we had heard for the last time , after the revolutions of 1989 . |
| 14 | We had asked for the additional cost of providing an extension of the present service to the Cuiken area of Penicuik . |
| 15 | Klaasen 's contention that ‘ the only integration that has gone on so far has been among the top officials ’ seemed to be borne out by the fact that we had to wait for the penultimate game of the tours to seen the first nonwhite player take the field . |
| 16 | His one break from bop conventions lay in the pacing of each set , since he favoured fast tempi almost exclusively , and we had to wait for the penultimate tune of the night to hear a ballad played at real ballad speed . |
| 17 | So we had to wait for the next bus , which was six o'clock . |
| 18 | It maybe still the same now , erm because right up to the time I erm retired we , we had on occasions to pay for the residual value of a tyre , perhaps a bus had been in accident and the tyre had suffered damage which it was n't possible to repair it or retread it , perhaps a hole had been pierced through the wall , they scrapped that tyre and we had to pay for the residual value , mind you being in accident we could then claim it off the insurance company but , so right up to the time I retired that 's how tyres were paid for . |
| 19 | We have to control for the other ways in which they might vary . |
| 20 | I am afraid that while this ban is in force my wife and I will not be trading in Darlington as we have done for the last 20 years . |
| 21 | Such a myth is integral to the salient cultural paradigm of our times and which we have possessed for the last three centuries . |
| 22 | Anything else we have to do for the open day ? |
| 23 | We have to allow for the gradual loss of existing members — an allowance of 5% may be a reasonable figure . |
| 24 | Mr Tebbit , the ex-party chairman and MP for Chingford , asked Mr Hurd ‘ whether the pledge that we have given for the last four general elections , that there would be no further large-scale immigration , still stands or not ? ’ |
| 25 | The incidence of a tax measures the final tax burden on different people once we have allowed for the indirect as well as the direct effects of the tax . |
| 26 | We have shown for the first time an inhibition of in vitro CCPR in normal and premalignant human rectal epithelium by vitamin D and its metabolites . |
| 27 | Consider again the differential equation for the three-element model : where we have substituted for the various constants in terms of the relaxation times complex constants . |
| 28 | The Opposition do not understand that we have to provide for the full life of the Trident system — for 30 years . |
| 29 | As a matter of urgency I think chairman , be because if we 're going to apply , we need to apply for the first of April |
| 30 | As we sat waiting for the last half-hour to grind away , the young Sheikh lifted the phone and telephoned his grandmother — his mother 's mother , not Sheikha Grandmother , who was still on her visit to her daughter . |