Example sentences of "we [verb] [adv prt] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We sit around for a bit , chatting . |
| 2 | We headed off for the north-east facing slopes of La Masse , hoping to find the best snow . |
| 3 | We lined up for the final with the usual American din coming from the stands . |
| 4 | At Myitkyina we camped out for the night in a mission schoolroom and early next morning managed to get a lift out to the airstrip two miles away . |
| 5 | I do n't know how much pressure we put on for the police to get off their butts and do something . |
| 6 | We trudged around for an hour or so , unable to face the thought of lunch , and found another small hotel near Chamartin ( we were going back by train the next day by the last evening train ) . |
| 7 | We turned round for a look . |
| 8 | Each day we look out for the postman — but so far there 's been nothing . |
| 9 | We walked round for a bit then we came back and watched The Bug-Eyed Monster Strikes Back on the television . |
| 10 | We walked out for the victory ceremony and stood behind the plinth . |
| 11 | It was once more about five minutes before we set out for the alleyway behind the Love Me Tender massage parlor . |
| 12 | We set out for the inlet , pulling a shrieking Maha , surrounded by the usual bevy of children and urged on by the boys , maids and especially the Youngest Son , who was always ready to tease and laugh . |
| 13 | Mohammed came with us to Taroudant where Aziz organised the Tichka end ( his patch ) and we set off for the mountains . |
| 14 | In the morning providentially we set off for the frontier , and there to my great delight I saw the familiar face of Mr Derrick Robinson , Rhodesia 's Assistant Commissioner of Police , standing beside a BMW motor car which was to convey me to Salisbury . |
| 15 | She wanted a child , so we signed up for the eugenics lottery . |
| 16 | One particular incident which sticks in my mind which brought home to me how ill he was occurred when my mother sent me one morning to ask my father what he wanted for breakfast , to which he replied in a very vague and confused manner " hen mush " ( the term we gave to the vegetable matter we cooked up for the chickens ) . |
| 17 | We were cooking for ourselves so we settled in for the evening and made ourselves comfortable . |
| 18 | An ironical cheer went up at this and we settled down for the night . |
| 19 | Through the Sound of Grunay , ever threading through a procession of rock islets and on to the northernmost island of Unst , where we tied up for the night at the little pier in Baltasound . |
| 20 | And so it came to pass that when we broke up for the summer holidays in 1941 , I set off on my bike to the farmer 's new settlement . |
| 21 | As we trooped in for the service , the sun caught it and , for a moment , I had a virion of what it must have really looked like , all those years ago , when they nailed poor old JC up before the people , one bright day in palestine . |
| 22 | ‘ You can stay here until we close up for the night , ’ she said . |
| 23 | Two cyclists seemed fair game to these pissed idiots so we took off for the hills , only a small range but , we were to discover , quite beautiful . |
| 24 | Okay has anybody else got anything more on that on that subject ? if we go back for a bit and just go back to the |
| 25 | This is the moment when we decide whether we go in for a federal Europe or whether we go in for a Europe of member states trading together , competing together , co-operating together . |
| 26 | Drink 's never been either here or there for me , bar a wee Baileys with my coffee if we go out for a meal and I always buy it in at Christmas , because most women like it . |
| 27 | When they reached the stairs , his voice determinedly reasonable , he asked , ‘ Do you want to return to Ca ’ del Leone to shower and change before we go out for a meal ? ’ |
| 28 | hi er he 's got to go , he 's got his annual medical , it 's a very high-powered erm thing in Dundee on Tuesday , so Anne said that she would like to come up with him , potter about Dundee while he 's having his medical then they will come here on Tuesday evening , or late Tuesday afternoon , and we go out for a meal , and then of course , she 'll be with me all day on Thursday because he goes back up to Dundee to his managers ' meeting , you see . |
| 29 | Hurry up and then we go out for a walk . |
| 30 | And erm and then we went and got my fruit and veg and then we went in Top Marks and got them so we never got we went through for a video really , never got round to looking for a video did we ? |