Example sentences of "[adv] we [vb past] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Daily we waited for the skies to fall . |
| 2 | So we settled for the International Press Centre … |
| 3 | Yesterday we called for the Attorney General , Sir Nicholas Lyell , to examine Courtney 's case following his conviction 15 days ago for two rapes and two indecent assaults . |
| 4 | Before she reached the precincts of Iona she made the round of the Sound of Mull , called at Tobermory , where she was unnecessarily detained by some shippers not having a lot of sheep waiting ; she sailed up Loch Sunart , got on board part of a flock of sheep at Salen Pier , landed them at Croag in Mull ; and now we made for the Isle of Coll , — the ‘ Sandy Coll ’ Sir Walter speaks of . |
| 5 | Here we lived for the next fifteen years , with the eighteenth-century kirk across the road , and from my study window at the front a clear thirty-mile view across the Tweed valley to the distant Cheviots . |
| 6 | At least we did for the longer |
| 7 | The bemused Parisians did n't know what the fuck we were on about when we asked for the ‘ Adidas Centre ’ in several differing French accents . |