Example sentences of "we [vb past] for the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | The colonel gave me a friendly pat on the shoulder , and we made for the outside world again . |
2 | We made for the top front of the vehicle , as this provided the best all-round view . |
3 | We qualified for the European championship without him , so we do n't have to take risks . ’ |
4 | But you need real people for a proper gloat so we headed for the cardboard suburb in the Strand . |
5 | We played for the British ambassador and some Irish teachers and workers who were out there . |
6 | We decided we were n't going to get on without flirting with a lot of trouble , so we opted for the trusty 1-iron again . |
7 | ‘ I 've got the tickets we ordered for the Welsh match at Twickenham next month . |
8 | So we settled for the International Press Centre … |
9 | However , the figure we gave for the annual input of carbon into the soil ( 1.2 tonnes of carbon per hectare per year ) include the carbon contributed by algae and photosynthetic bacteria . |
10 | ‘ Like your party trick with the neutrino collectors and the hymetusite : we could n't have scaled it up enough to solve Earth 's energy shortfall , but it could have supported us here whilst we searched for the long-term solution — the high-mass elements in Lucifer 's core . ’ |
11 | We searched for the optical companion to the pulsar on the relevant UKSTU J-survey plate . |