Example sentences of "[noun pl] we [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The skills of salesmanship and political demagogy are virtually the only methods we have for changing perception . |
| 2 | Packed with information on the animals we use for food , clothing , entertainment , transport or in scientific experiments . |
| 3 | Lack of money prevents us eating properly when we are children , ruins our health , rots our teeth , makes our parents quarrel and take to drink , stops us having the clothes we want , the friends we like , the parties we long for , stops us having the tuition which would enable us to get an education — makes us end up street sweepers and not doctors ; induces women to have babies because there is no money for travel or entertainment , or to leave the parental home any other way : lack of money humiliates us all our lives : lack of money makes us live with husbands or wives we no longer love : lack of money makes us age earlier than we need : makes our hands rough with toil and our brows creased with anxiety : keeps us weeping by day and sleepless by night : the terror in our lives is the bill through the door which ca n't be paid : our lives close in the knowledge of failure — we failed to make enough money . |
| 4 | Membership is free ; we earn our living by deducting a small commission ( between 5% and 15% ) from any royalties we collect for you . |
| 5 | There were none of the comforts we take for granted now . |
| 6 | Sometimes we come very close to the world outside , for example when we hear someone say the words we need for a piece of writing we 're involved in we commit it lovingly to memory so we can use it . |
| 7 | That pulse generator for switching telly channels we developed for computerising remote control of shell velocity measurements on Pendine Sands . |
| 8 | We are the largest independent provider of practical home care to people with HIV/AIDS in the U.K. From 7 regional offices we have provided practical care to over 1000 people in the lat 3 years and in the last 12 months we cared for at least 1 in 5 of those who died of AIDS in the U.K. |
| 9 | The experiences we organise for our learners vary according to the command of the language they have . |
| 10 | With small token charges of explosives in our pockets we made for distant roads , railways and bridges , sinking up to our knees in bogs and wading through the icy waters of fast-running burns . |
| 11 | erm The other parts of the job are that we do erm all of the fundamental and much of the applied research which the nation needs , we provide an increasing range of advanced courses in technology for people in industry , and continuing education generally , the number of mature students at all levels is rising , and there are a number of other service functions we do for the community as well as just teaching undergraduates . |
| 12 | During Christian Aid Week itself it is the finds we make for customers that delight us , whether it is discovering just the right dictionary to fit the schoolbag of the 7-year-old son of a young bus-driver , just one number of the National Geographic magazine to complete someone 's sequence , or some early Penguins or American periodicals for the University or National Library collections . |
| 13 | ‘ No , I was only thinking about all those prayers we say for the conversion of China . |
| 14 | The post-Comintern Communist Movement , the Socialist International , international Fascist organizations , and the Green movement ( about which more will be said below ) provide the only models we have for such organizations , and none of these can be currently regarded as successful in global terms . |
| 15 | Ken , if we could er look at what 's actually happening out there to pensioners at the moment , I think of which we 're all very concerned , but there has been a small item of good news to balance against the concerns we have for those pensioners that are still suffering from uncertainty and that is some money has started to come in as a result of legal actions and settlements out of court . |
| 16 | People forget the singing potatoes we did for Smiths Crisps . |
| 17 | If in past decades we waited for the telegram to arrive , it did not lessen the shock , but it did prepare us for the event . |
| 18 | In the early 1960s I remember caddying for Brian Huggett and Peter Butler , but in those days we caddied for many players . |
| 19 | There will be both American and Japanese ranges in the Starfield line and the two guitars we have for review are from the latter source . |
| 20 | For instance , in five-a-sides we play for Mars Bars . |
| 21 | During those years we met for ‘ reunions ’ in New York and London and it was always wonderful to see her . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's one of the most important projects we have for the 1990s , ’ says Philip Goldsmith , head of Earth observation at the European Space Agency . |
| 23 | After three hours we looked for land . |
| 24 | ‘ We will have no difficulty in getting the fifty signatures we need for a Special General Meeting . |
| 25 | If in our plans we hope for the best and are prepared for the worst then we should be ready for anything in between . |
| 26 | The brave heresies which were uttered then , the great plans we had for Britain , our determination to allow people to keep a fair proportion of what they have worked for and won : must these noble hopes perish so soon ? |
| 27 | Erm , I work for Scottish Women 's Football and the plans we have for this year erm , shall hopefully encourage more women to come into the sport . |
| 28 | It means broadening our agenda and questioning the decisions on which it is based , the reasons we go for one story and exclude others . |
| 29 | It is not the question of what in general we say when we assert such conditionals , or what they are about , but the question of what reasons we have for saying what we do . |
| 30 | You would think we all agreed that acting to end third-world poverty was our number one priority , and that we would all , with barely a sigh of regret , give up our cars , our fridge-freezers and dishwashers , would cease commuting and return to live in the cities we abandoned for the good of our children , and would generally resume our lives as good citizens after 13 years in the desert . |