Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] we for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our younger daughter came with us for a year to Australia , where Michael had a visiting Professorship at Sydney University . |
| 2 | Johnny Miller played with us for the last two days . |
| 3 | The family wanted to dispute the will , and that 's when Angela — Miss Morgan — came to us for advice . |
| 4 | ‘ People originally came to us for help with choosing wallpapers , paints , fabrics and curtains , but we realised we could give them a much broader service , ’ explains Jon . |
| 5 | Some people came to us for a week , some for a month and a few wanted to be taught the essentials of the job in two or three days . |
| 6 | A man came to us for food recently , but he also needed spiritual counselling . |
| 7 | Yeah , the reason that happened was that there was no-one servicing holidays erm and they came to us for an allocation and and we gave it to them . |
| 8 | The fight lasted but a few minutes , when the soldiers retreated before us for twelve miles . |
| 9 | The result was that yesterday they turned on us for information as to the number of men to be dropped , the weight of stores and the mileage and so on , all of which was essential for them to know if they were to fit out the aircraft properly . |
| 10 | Our younger son Barney and his wife lived with us for several years , and their son was born while they lived with us . |
| 11 | Brother Eadred rode with us for a while , two or three miles from the abbey gates . |
| 12 | He hung around us for a while . |
| 13 | All our buddies that worked for us for 50 years were just living and drinking and eating like fucking Rome … it was just hell and it had to stop . ’ |
| 14 | In Hungary , the process industry looked to us for safety advice and provided our first contract in Eastern Europe . |
| 15 | Fortune smiled on us for , although we only had a fleeting glimpse of the sun , the rain kept off until we boarded our coach for home at 6.15pm . |
| 16 | He 's a very contented baby , a joy to his parents and big sister , and today at nine weeks old ( 40+3 ) , he smiled at us for the first time . |
| 17 | I do n't mean for his fear to be confirmed — that he was sightless ; the unspoken query which hovered over us for those few days . |
| 18 | Greg , Pippa , Emily , Tom and Bill all came over from America , and stayed with us for eight days . |
| 19 | He stayed with us for a while in Salisbury early in 1921 and I can still hear him thumping away on the piano singing his favourite song ‘ Signora ’ in a not very tuneful voice . |
| 20 | My family in Nottingham entertained a friend who stayed with us for several days . |
| 21 | Jan stayed with us for nearly eight years . |
| 22 | She stayed with us for a month while we regained our strength , doing all the cooking and washing until my mother was fit enough to take over . |
| 23 | Fine weather stayed with us for the remainder of our passage down the East coast . |
| 24 | Not really well we the Blackstone engineer fitting up engines , he stayed with us for a while to show us the ropes like you know . |