Example sentences of "we [vb past] for a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The station was offered to us for the sum of £20,000 , but when we asked for a private valuation in the hope of securing a loan to purchase the site , the valuer valued the site at only £10,000 . |
| 2 | We asked for an extra day , and that was fine . |
| 3 | After battling winds and rain across the lake we stopped for a nutritious lunch and continued to battle our way to our second night 's camp . |
| 4 | After dinner , we had the choice of watching a cabaret show performed by the Sol entertainments team , but more often than not , we opted for a relaxing drink in the Tenerife bar . |
| 5 | spotting a narrow isthmus on the map near Northton we opted for a large portage ; half a kilometre would be a long way but , following our Griminish Point experience , the safer option seemed favourable . |
| 6 | ‘ We drove for a long time . |
| 7 | Remembering the close encounter near Maralal , we arranged for an armed park ranger to accompany us , so that we would also be protected in case of emergency . |
| 8 | As you may know , our family lived in NZ from 1969 to 1978 and last year we returned for a 6-month tour , but I 've never been over the Haast Pass so that is a personal goal for me ! |
| 9 | But our rate was fixed , the girls 's rate We worked for a fixed rate . |
| 10 | This remarkable event , as unlikely as a Papal Bull encouraging polyandry , we took for a good omen . |
| 11 | It was hard to know where to start but we went for a private sale and a Mazda 323 on the basis that Dave Baker ( our friend in Christchurch ) has a Mazda 323 and what 's good for Dave is good for us ! |
| 12 | But we went for a long walk and Ally started talking about his work in a way I had n't heard before . |
| 13 | We won for a third time at Zandvoort , the first grand prix of the season : apart from the prize money , that moved us up a scale on the start money and suddenly I could see our way through the rest of the season . |
| 14 | We hoped for a continuous flow of information and exchange of art and culture between the two countries . |
| 15 | We tested for a mating preference for large crests by comparing the attractiveness of models with short crests to the same models with crest feathers lengthened ( Fig. 1 ) , using three models of each sex to ensure that responses were not biased by unique characteristics of any one specimen . |
| 16 | We continued for a short distance before pitching our tents in the boulder strewn tundra now below the elegant , ice-fluted summit of Chonku Chuli . |
| 17 | Nearing our high camp on an icy platform , in the shelter of a rocky outcrop at around 5,800m , we paused for a final appreciation of the tremendous highland panorama extending before us . |
| 18 | That was the doctoring that we had for a broken collar bone you see ? |
| 19 | I began to wonder what was happening when we stood for a long time at Birmingham New Street . |
| 20 | We travelled for a long time . |