Example sentences of "[conj] we [vb past] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I half slept , then woke as we sped by the rest house where we had stopped for juice on that first visit to Al Ain . |
| 2 | But when it when a bill came up and it would take away the money that we 'd saved for Kelly 's new school uniform , so it always seemed to come in a rush and there was always something needed like you know . |
| 3 | When Sir Henry joined us , Holmes told him that we had to leave for London immediately after breakfast . |
| 4 | He said that was fine and that he knew that the sails would be as good as the last suit that we had made for him . |
| 5 | As the crest broke over my head I just wished that we had gone for plan B which was to have used a tandem bicycle for this trip . |
| 6 | For this to work though , it was absolutely essential to get them to their spot a minute or two ahead of her , and to achieve that we had arranged for Mrs Thatcher to pause for a cup of coffee with the VIPs in a small room just outside the terminal door . |
| 7 | WE got so much that we had asked for from Norman Lamont yesterday that it might seem churlish not to give his Autumn Statement an unqualified welcome . |
| 8 | Klaasen 's contention that ‘ the only integration that has gone on so far has been among the top officials ’ seemed to be borne out by the fact that we had to wait for the penultimate game of the tours to seen the first nonwhite player take the field . |
| 9 | Sometimes I wish that we had to work for our reception . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ If I tell anyone that we stopped to look for a ghost , they 'll laugh at me , and if I was you , I would n't tell your mates either . |
| 11 | Also extend your research on Operation Sea Lion to cover any sites in the general area of London that we intended to use for covert operations , landings by night , that sort of thing . ’ |
| 12 | So there was only one helicopter instead of two , which meant less heliskiing than we had hoped for . |
| 13 | If we are accused of structuring a massive bid proposal to expressly favour G Tec , and if G Tec end up being the only bidder we should expect to encounter major public relations and or legal problems , and we could end up paying far more than we had anticipated for the needed goods and services . |
| 14 | The Chinese do n't like their planes to fly unless the weather is absolutely O.K. So we had to wait for a few hours for the plane to arrive from Shanghai . |
| 15 | ‘ Our lease was ending on the old building so we had to look for somewhere different , ’ says . |
| 16 | I says oh I du n no , I said oh Sharon 'll fetch dad over , so we sat waiting for her and then they come |
| 17 | And we got done for conspiracy to cause GBH . |
| 18 | No Met nor Notam information was displayed , and we had to ask for the Met before filing our flight-plan to Santiago . |
| 19 | In the second half we saw little ball and we had to defend for our lives . |
| 20 | So , no sooner did the record go into the charts and we were going ‘ yeah , this is it — hooray — we 're taking off ’ , they dropped the record and we had to wait for the guys to come back to earth . |
| 21 | But all the local ambulances were busy and we had to wait for one to come from Richmond , which is many miles away . |
| 22 | His one break from bop conventions lay in the pacing of each set , since he favoured fast tempi almost exclusively , and we had to wait for the penultimate tune of the night to hear a ballad played at real ballad speed . |
| 23 | It maybe still the same now , erm because right up to the time I erm retired we , we had on occasions to pay for the residual value of a tyre , perhaps a bus had been in accident and the tyre had suffered damage which it was n't possible to repair it or retread it , perhaps a hole had been pierced through the wall , they scrapped that tyre and we had to pay for the residual value , mind you being in accident we could then claim it off the insurance company but , so right up to the time I retired that 's how tyres were paid for . |
| 24 | For my part , I told her that I was sure Aisha had a lover and we began searching for proof . |
| 25 | A.J. Wickens , K.C. and other prominent citizens made up the Board of Directors and we began to look for commercial advertisers . |
| 26 | From the time of the Anschluss in March 1938 , until the outbreak of war in September 1939 , hopes of peace gradually faded and we began to prepare for the grim reality . |
| 27 | Cos I , I were asking if they wanted a baked tatie and that and we stood waiting for them and you noticed on sack |
| 28 | We ate heartily every night , we could afford croissants at breakfast , and we stopped scrounging for cigarettes . |
| 29 | And it was n't until we started analysing for zinc that we realized what the problem was . |
| 30 | If we had played for the whole 90 minutes as we did for the first hour we would have beaten Rangers . ’ |