Example sentences of "[subord] we [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where we asked for marks out of ten , or thermometer ratings out of a hundred , we can use relative scores for different parties to construct measures of preference . |
| 2 | It led to an abandoned fishing hamlet called Hamningberg , where we camped for the night in a grassy field studded with interesting saxifrages and other flowers . |
| 3 | In the afternoon we visited the Priory ruins where we prayed for unity and for the Decade of Evangelisation and finished off with a lusty rendition of Faith of our Fathers ! |
| 4 | That evening we left Fort St Nogent on a coach for the Gare de Lyons where we embarked for the south of France on an overnight express . |
| 5 | I learned to love what Diana and Mary loved — the little old grey house , the wild open moors around it , and the lonely hills and valleys where we walked for hours . |
| 6 | The general equilibrium of the economy involves solving these three equations for X , n m and n r , where we substitute for X m and X r from ( 7–45 ) and ( 7–48 ) . |
| 7 | I thought of the chessplayers in the Park , where we sat for so many hours , the chessplayers , more various by far than the pieces they wielded ( the players not erect , not regulated , but mumbling , shambling , rhomboid ) . |
| 8 | After about five minutes we went into the final check room where we stayed for what seemed ages , most of us in our pre-race trances now , nobody speaking , just moving about , staying loose . |
| 9 | The Swiss Alps are now our destination where we head for Lucerne for a one night stop . |
| 10 | We were not far below the hanging glacier bivouac , where we stopped for two hours before pushing on to make the most of the night . |
| 11 | These committees make the final decision on publication , although we ask for almost every paper to be revised before publication . |
| 12 | It seems that our pursuit of happiness is proving to be much more radical than we bargained for . |
| 13 | Without commitment faith seems to cost more than we bargained for . |
| 14 | ‘ I found more than we bargained for — including that policewoman Hampton . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ This is a much 'appier Christmas than we thought for . |
| 16 | We may accept lower terms than we want for a job or a project , and in undervaluing ourselves we become less powerful in the eyes of others . |
| 17 | Some of the emphasis which is placed on general and mass trends in modern history arises from a sort of optical illusion , because we have so much more information about the general nature and working of recent societies than we have for earlier periods . |
| 18 | erm , you know which is , we 've had more rain in the last fortnight than we have for about in the last three years . |
| 19 | We 'll not be building any more than we intended for this year — well , a house or two more , maybe , but nothing beyond . |
| 20 | We decided we were n't going to get on without flirting with a lot of trouble , so we opted for the trusty 1-iron again . |
| 21 | Full cheeks are a definite help with steering on a green or ignorant horse , so we opted for these . |
| 22 | The weather still held good next day , so we opted for another , shorter , boat trip , this time out to Kidney Island . |
| 23 | After visiting several suppliers and looking at various packages , I found that Dixons offered the best value , availability and longevity , so we opted for a Packard Bell 486SX . |
| 24 | Yes we had er ships wh we , they call erm these liberty ships come in from America loaded with bombs and when they moved them up there , well they call them down here they call them liberty ships and er the bombs were loaded , so they used to erm put all timber between each layer of bombs and they had proper carpenters who would fix all these and when the dockers went down , they put these bombs out , cos they were n't detonated , the detonators were in the fore end of the ship , right down the lower hull and erm the bombs were loaded into open trucks loaded into , well the dockers they thought it was dangerous , cos we had the Fire Brigade , that 's the fire service down there and standing by with the fire engines and dockers they wanted the , they want a shilling , I think it was a shilling a day extra , well a shilling extra something like that and there they got it the shilling or extra pound , cos us crane drivers we were n't on the same par as them , so we asked for a shilling . |
| 25 | Du Guesclin was reorganising the French armies , our old king was doddering and there was no need for English swords in France , so we sailed for Outremer . |
| 26 | The usual convention is to choose the reference point at infinity and choose the corresponding potential ( a ) = 0 , so we get for the potential of a point charge |
| 27 | ‘ So we go for it , ’ he says . |
| 28 | It seemed okay , so we went for it . |
| 29 | It seemed to fly OK , so we prepared for the 482 kilometres water crossing to Australia . |
| 30 | After the fun and games of the Cheranganis it was time for something a bit more serious , so we headed for Mount Elgon , in the far west of the country , straddling the border between Kenya and Uganda . |