Example sentences of "[noun] [subord] we [vb past] 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | It was just a bedsit she had early in our marriage when we parted for a while . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But you need real people for a proper gloat so we headed for the cardboard suburb in the Strand . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Here is another example of BR communication photographed on Middlesbrough station as we waited for the Hartlepool train . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Answer guide : The facts suggest that if we apply the same argument as we outlined for vehicles then reducing balance would be the choice . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It is the same kind of calculation as we did for haemoglobin , and it produces a similarly large result . |
| 17 | We were reminded that weather which suits ducks well enough can be more than cruel to other species when we found a dead bird on the path as we turned for home . |
| 18 | At Telford Fiona Baikie commented , ‘ We worked closely with our Field Officer while we prepared for the visit , and he helped college staff enormously . |
| 19 | The catechist will read out in the same way as we did for the Celebration of Enrolment , erm whichever catechist is doing will say I present to you and call out a name , and you stand up in your seat with your parents . |
| 20 | Beinn Eighe still dominated the landscape as we headed for Gairloch . |
| 21 | I glanced at my watch as we headed for the stairs . |
| 22 | That was one we got our free milk as many pints of milk as we required for to keep our fam but no more , no more than that , just much your family had they 'd allow you a pint per per person . |
| 23 | If we had played for the whole 90 minutes as we did for the first hour we would have beaten Rangers . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ This is a much 'appier Christmas than we thought for . |
| 25 | There were a lot of crows when we went for a walk before flying round . |