Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] we [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were given the , a right old drumming down before we left for here . |
| 2 | Much as we longed for another child , and overjoyed as we were that we were to have another daughter , we both said that it was the hardest thing we had ever done , to see a lovely young mother say goodbye to her daughter . |
| 3 | We were in Hartlepool in the March of 1890 when Mr Frobisher , our then actor-manager , told us all as we assembled for a Monday morning rehearsal that he had secured the services of a great singer . |
| 4 | just because we saved for that that you know |
| 5 | Just after we closed for press on Friday , news came through that NCR Corp 's chairman and chief executive Gilbert Williamson would retire from the company in May and would be succeeded by Jerre Stead , currently president of AT&T Co 's Global Business Communications Systems , which he is credited with having turned around ; Stead , 50 , will have the title group executive-NCR , and will be succeeded by Patricia Russo , currently vice president-national sales and service for the Global Business Unit ; although the switch is being presented as amicable , there are mutters that AT&T is concerned that NCR has not had a higher profile since acquisition . |
| 6 | Just after we closed for press last week , news came through that NCR Corp 's chairman and chief executive Gilbert Williamson would retire from the company in May and would be succeeded by Jerre Stead , currently president of AT&T Co 's Global Business Communications Systems , which he is credited with having turned around ; Stead , 50 , will have the title group executive-NCR , and will be succeeded by Patricia Russo , currently vice president-national sales and service for the Global Business Unit ; although the switch is being presented as amicable , there are mutters that AT&T is concerned that NCR has not had a higher profile since acquisition . |
| 7 | I 'd given the warden details of our itinerary , and the call got put straight through to my own room here just before we went for lunch . |
| 8 | We 've now moved on in part of question your question five B and erm in my response to that I 'm suggesting , and I hope it 's not just semantics , picking up the point made just before we broke for coffee , is that there 's all sorts of things called the countryside , and this policy is is directed at the open countryside . |
| 9 | More steam , more dust stirred up until we ran for the door gasping . |
| 10 | ‘ Like your party trick with the neutrino collectors and the hymetusite : we could n't have scaled it up enough to solve Earth 's energy shortfall , but it could have supported us here whilst we searched for the long-term solution — the high-mass elements in Lucifer 's core . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ He could have done it beforehand when we met for drinks and everyone 's attention was on Mrs Figgis-Hewett , ’ said Angelina , albeit with a feeling of disloyalty to a fellow female . |
| 12 | Those who read right-wing papers proved significantly more satisfied with the Conservative Party 's handling of major issues , even when we controlled for their party identification and ideological self-placement . |
| 13 | None the less , the press still showed a moderately powerful influence on voting even when we controlled for voters ' initial partisanship and ideology ( Table 8.13 ) It had most effect upon those who were initially undecided or were Alliance identifiers . |
| 14 | Maybe because we settled for a point that late in the game ? ? |
| 15 | And then when we went for wheel balancing told us to take it back for balancing and tracking , they turned round and says we 're not doing it . |
| 16 | And then when we went for a drink he used to say are you not buying me a drink ? |