Example sentences of "for we [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But after the marriage and the party , when it was time , the brougham was already waiting for us at the front door , I could n't bear to leave . |
| 2 | He says being a little forgiving I could praps forgive them a little for us on the 1952 test , the first , but I ca n't forgive them for what they did to these other lads on the later tests , they must have known something from Nagasaki , Hiroshima and Bikini atoll tests . |
| 3 | I was particularly thrilled with the guys who scored the points for us on the final day , Mark James , Jose-Maria Olazabal , Jose-Maria Canizares , Ronan Rafferty and Christy O'Connor Jnr. , because in the case of Canizares , Ronan and Christy they had n't scored a point in the games they played and it was nice for them to take some of the glory . |
| 4 | While Famlio was looking for us near the Fraxilly sector , we 'd be elsewhere . |
| 5 | He passed them on to another colleague who led us finally to our places which were kept for us in the Grand Salon . |
| 6 | Our job is to go over there and come back with a result which keeps everything alive for us in the second leg at Parkhead . ’ |
| 7 | It is not necessary for us in the present case to decide whether this distinction is a legitimate one and I do not think we should assume to do so . |
| 8 | Sometimes the contrast is not so clearly expressed for us in the twentieth century as it would have been in the first century , so we have to rely on commentaries to point out the way that the apostle was thinking . |
| 9 | The rough had been allowed to get really high and that was n't good news for us in the first round . |
| 10 | As it is , with four seasons lost to the War , Jimmy reached 200 Southern League games , so that even today he is comfortably within our top forty all-time appearances , while only Joe Johnson and Harry Collyer played more often for us in the Southern League . |
| 11 | With regard to English , he suggests that what he sees as the limitations of ‘ metropolitan ’ use of the language may not be present in other registers : ‘ still an integration of thought and feeling in metaphor and imagery is what we seek to have recreated for us in the best literature ’ ( ibid. p. 78 ) . |
| 12 | A Sky spokesman added : ‘ We agreed to a police request that Bobby Gould should not be at the ground , even though he worked for us in the same capacity at the first match between the two sides . ’ |
| 13 | In the words of the council leader , the new department was set up to ‘ act in a political manner ’ with a function of ‘ political mobilization ’ and , according to its first co-ordinator , ‘ part of the challenge for us in the local authority is to try to reintroduce some political perspective ’ ( quoted in Duncan and Goodwin , 1988 , p. 85 ) . |
| 14 | Mohammed has provided this service for us in the Toubkal massif over many years . |
| 15 | This fact is a trifle obscured for us by the modern doctrine of the holiday . |
| 16 | It was put here for us by the Great Spirit and we can not sell it because it does not belong to us . |
| 17 | In the event , it proved to be even tougher , dominated for us by the worsening situation in California . |
| 18 | The divine drama illuminated for us by the Holy Spirit disintegrates into puzzles , conundrums and endless interpretations . |