Example sentences of "[vb pp] we [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think you 've probably let us in for it now Frank cos she 's almost certainly going to send us some . |
| 2 | Trading continues to be difficult in all the major European markets , but our cost cutting programmes have positioned us well for recovery . |
| 3 | J. and I spent that Christmas at our separate homes , but were back on camp for the New Year celebrations , the first new year of peacetime for seven years , and as 1945 drew to a close most of us were beginning to look tentatively ahead to the future when we would no longer be bound by the rules and regulations which had fenced us in for so long , and to wonder where we would all be in another twelve months . |
| 4 | The extraordinary circumstances of the last three days have bound us together for a minimum of eighteen hours a day , breakfast , lunch and dinner , and we 've got to know each other well . |
| 5 | Once we had sat together in that ‘ condemned ’ gallery until evening , and the sacristan , not knowing we were there , had nearly locked us in for the night . |
| 6 | ‘ The assassin has marked us down for death , but first he is playing with us like a cat does with a mouse . |
| 7 | The pump ‘ pinned us there for a few seconds before the other lads got it off ’ . |
| 8 | Asked us over for drinks … |
| 9 | ‘ The Coleys have asked us back for drinks at Château Kitsch — that 's worth seeing anyway , ’ he said , ‘ but lots of potential patrons will be there and the Pony Club Committee , so it could be useful to Perdita . |
| 10 | He added : ‘ It is more important than the general election itself that we maintain a constitution that has served us well for generations , and ought not to be lightly tampered with for party political purposes in the midst of the general election . ’ |
| 11 | As one participant has suggested , the first intellectual task is to set on one side an archaeology of knowledge which has served us well for at least three centuries . |
| 12 | As long as all the subjects have the maths held us up for ages , and the science for ages ! |
| 13 | She said : ‘ All that has held us together for years is that I 've been working for you . |