Example sentences of "[noun] [subord] we [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He kissed me in the back of the car while we waited for the others , but nothing moved in me . |
| 2 | 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 ! |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | We all have to keep up appearances while we wait for the tide to turn . |
| 5 | Anyway , it 's one of the minor unfortunate facts of life that a detumescing willy is prone to trap stray pube hairs under the foreskin as it scrolls forward again , and that was why I was adjusting my clothing as we braked for the bend above Cairndow . |
| 6 | It was just a bedsit she had early in our marriage when we parted for a while . |
| 7 | As always I got up at once so that I might cherish the ninety minutes until we assembled for work — minutes that were mine — not the authorities . |
| 8 | six two O twos , and we 're not going to replace it with anything , and we have an opportunity if we go for it now that we could replace them with sixteen double O fours and the projections are |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But you need real people for a proper gloat so we headed for the cardboard suburb in the Strand . |
| 11 | CONNIE COOK , chief display assistant , Blackpool : ‘ What about selling variety packs of pop like we have for fruit juices ? |
| 12 | On this occasion we thought it so important that we invited the bishop to lay hands on the team as they were sent out and began to meet on Sunday mornings , initially in a large sitting room as we searched for suitable premises . |
| 13 | What will happen to the original relationship if we control for this test factor ? |
| 14 | A few things while we wait for a report of some description ( hint hint ; - ) |
| 15 | You talk about leading questions again that testing trial closed where we 'd just test the water before we go for the actual commitment . |
| 16 | lady Victoria , curator of the Burghley House collection , will talk about Japanese porcelain : Kakiemon treasures and there will be time for questions before we break for coffee . |
| 17 | ‘ We 're also recognising the strength of local teams as we drive for increased market share in the individual countries of the new Europe . |
| 18 | Here is another example of BR communication photographed on Middlesbrough station as we waited for the Hartlepool train . |
| 19 | The final ( Moderated ) mark is needed by the Secretary of the N.E.B.E. when we apply for the final Written Examinations of the Board . |
| 20 | We use the same word for a quality of material things as we use for a bodily sensation . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Without democracy we would n't be able to say who should rule , with democracy we can we can say these people because we voted for them and that 's it , we ca n't say these people interests we ca n't say that these people act in common good although if they do very badly we 'll try and recall them , all we can say is they 're there we need , what we need is authority structures , we need the structures more than the people occupying the roles , someone 's got to occupy the roles and this is the only way we 've got of appointing them . |
| 24 | A love song on the crackly Holiday Inn radio which the maid always switches on as her final flourish after she 's done the room ( Hugo and I go down to the pool and swim and use the sauna while we wait for her to finish ) or a pop song on the telly as Hugo and I eat our continental breakfast ( orange juice , coffee , a croissant and a Danish each ) , too languid even to stretch out for the remote control and switch it off — will make tears come to my eyes : move me with the desire to say , You do love me , do n't you ! |
| 25 | The fact that women were less likely to go absent but more likely to be in unfavourable jobs meant that we were misled about the effect of low status jobs on absence before we controlled for sex . |
| 26 | Answer guide : The facts suggest that if we apply the same argument as we outlined for vehicles then reducing balance would be the choice . |
| 27 | Things got off to a bad start anyway when my Reliant Robin was crushed by Pahdra Singh 's Bentley as we jostled for a parking place . |
| 28 | We can have a little heart-to-heart while we wait for him . ’ |
| 29 | We are not prepared to do that , and that provision will not be in the treaty unless we ask for it . |
| 30 | We think we should not accept ‘ I like Auntie Kate ’ as a valid communication unless we allow for an answer to the question , ‘ How does he know ? ’ or ‘ What observation justifies him in saying that ? ’ |