Example sentences of "[vb past] we [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pat 's son invited us round for dinner , I never thought so say you know ! |
| 2 | One afternoon we went for a walk to a nearby village where we met an old man with a stick and a long grey moustache who invited us home for tea . |
| 3 | After a brief lapse , Fate booked us in for more hardship . |
| 4 | He told us off for not taking him there |
| 5 | Jimmy Tarbuck and his mate Kenny Lynch followed us around for one of the practice days and , unusually for Tom and I , it was a sunny day . |
| 6 | Our fleet now consisted of three " V " vessels , Venturous , Vigilant and Valiant , all well equipped , modern , purpose-built patrol boats which were worked hard and served us well for the next ten years . |
| 7 | My first attempt on these hills ended at about 1500 feet when two of us were simply blasted off , which I suppose served us right for even setting out on a morning dark and grey as a used Brillo pad . |
| 8 | He addressed us now for the first time , in far more lucid Indonesian than we had ever heard from his elders . |
| 9 | They landed us in for it between them . ’ |
| 10 | Passing one by one in front of a counter , a Corporal sized us up for height and girth before dumping a pile of cast-off clothes in front of each one of us . |
| 11 | Our escorts , both dressed in blazers and boaters jumped on-board — and promptly steered us straight for a garden wall . |
| 12 | He looked at us solemnly for a moment then , without a word , took us home for lunch . |
| 13 | Others we chatted with when we met them around the grounds , and some became temporary friends who asked us in for coffee or drinks , invitations which we pleasurably returned . |
| 14 | for a kick off anyway , you held us up for three , five months with drawings being late ! |
| 15 | She , however , was on duty throughout , and she set us up for the KGB photographers . |
| 16 | A branch line train took us to Aubagne where a coach picked us up for the journey up to the camp . |