Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] we for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fallon , also enjoying the most important success of his career , said : ‘ The stands ’ side led us for a furlong , but our side was in command after that . ’ |
| 2 | Or the more punchy ‘ How would you like to buy some shares in Gibbs Building Contractors — ‘ Do n't pick your contractor/ By throwing a dice/ Bring GIBBS into the game/ Ask us for a price ’ . ’ |
| 3 | We had only to go for a walk through the empty streets and someone would appear in a doorway to invite us for dinner . |
| 4 | The light dazzled us for a bare ten years with its brilliance , before it was extinguished . |
| 5 | Her last entry reads : ‘ Letter from girl thanking us for concert tickets . |
| 6 | The guard invited us for tea . |
| 7 | Stanza three 's shockingly different mythology prepares us for ‘ This withered root ’ . |
| 8 | Er , I I 'll skip through it cos ' most people have n't got the copies with them , er we looked , you 'll remember that the A C C ops meeting thanked us for providing Beeston with a U V lamp for M O T examination . |
| 9 | Thus our falling plasma adrenalin and body temperature in the evening prepare us for sleep by toning us down , just as rising values from 5 o'clock in the morning onwards prepare us for the rigours of a new day . |
| 10 | Tiny children , barefoot and dirty , tried to generate enough courage to touch us for a few fils ’ . |
| 11 | But if one failure damns us for life , there would never be a happy second marriage , a confident second-test driver or a successful birthday cake . |
| 12 | Has our education prepared us for such perplexing indecision ? |
| 13 | Neither rejection , protest nor availability prepares us for the demands which celibacy is making on us nowadays . |
| 14 | We were then taken by boat about ten miles to Bone where an armed Army escort awaited us for interrogation and we were kept in a locked room in the barracks . |
| 15 | and get another person to sponsor us for that |
| 16 | What scientific evidence have we for the existence of ESP ? |
| 17 | Classical pharmacology prepared us for receptor diversity in that each of the stimuli listed in Fig. 1 acts through a separate receptor . |
| 18 | Rosenblum that day in the queue at Camisi 's : What did the good Lord create us for if not to be fathers ? |
| 19 | This would not apply , for instance , to reference use of the library , where public use qualifies us for a discount on book purchases , but would apply for , say , postal loans of slides , commercial enquiries , online searches , photocopies and so on , where such services would use staff time and involve paying for resources which we would not otherwise have to buy in . |
| 20 | It was you said how it was wrong to waste what the Good Lord provides us for nothing , only to throw away hard-earned cash at the Superstore buying second best . |
| 21 | I mean , what help has the British Government given us for preparing for 1992 ? |
| 22 | ‘ We should look to the Holy Spirit to guide us for good news . |
| 23 | Reform was ‘ a flash of lightning illuminating us for one moment only , to leave us in greater darkness ’ . |
| 24 | Fencing for Nursery Playgroup A letter has been received from the playgroup thanking us for the provision of the fence . |
| 25 | Fencing for Nursery Playgroup A letter has been received from the playgroup thanking us for the provision of the fence . |
| 26 | ‘ The rumours flew about Craig Short of Notts County joining us for over 2m but you have to live with that kind of rumour these days at Rovers . |
| 27 | The British officers of the crack Arab Legion entertained us for our weekend . |
| 28 | There is , therefore , an acceptance that work as it is experienced is ‘ what school prepared us for ’ . |
| 29 | TO our delight Edinburgh 's own novelist Lucilla Andrews accepted and invitation to visit us for a formal presentation of some signed copies of her books . |
| 30 | The press blamed us for Labour 's defeat , the Tories blamed us for Labour 's defeat and now it looks as thought the Labour Party is blaming us for Labour 's defeat . |