Example sentences of "we [vb past] [verb] [adv] for the " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I have n't actually met Frank yet ; he was appointed after we had broken up for the summer , ’ said Black .
2 ‘ My husband has been in the R.A.F. for nearly four years , but we had saved enough for the costs of a normal confinement in a nursing home , and as it was my first baby , we thought it well worth a little extra expense .
3 We had gotten to that section of the tune where it was obvious that we had played enough for the outro and I decided , off the top of my head , to start playing a song that I had started writing earlier in the week .
4 We had to stay there for the winter , however , because the ship needed repairs and the captain was ill .
5 With so much happening , and no central authority , Lorne and I were constantly harried by the attempt to film only the crucial events , which appeared to erupt spontaneously at any time of the day or night , while conserving the precious little film stock we had put aside for the intended Bugis film .
6 We had booked up for the ordinary ship and , and rail you know , to go over by ship and rail but er during the months awaiting the , I think we were going in July and er we had booked up maybe about April , but they had put these planes on and Polytechnic wrote to us and said , if we paid two pounds ten extra , we could go by air and we did it and the full tour for a week in Paris , going by air , was twelve pounds ten .
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