Example sentences of "[conj] we [vb past] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It led to an abandoned fishing hamlet called Hamningberg , where we camped for the night in a grassy field studded with interesting saxifrages and other flowers . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I think what I 'm trying to say is , in the minutes that we produced for the last meeting , it says that a copy of it will be available for the next meeting |
| 4 | Erm my understanding of the paper that we had for the seminar was that it discussed the nature of explanation . |
| 5 | I hope that future generations will never have to suffer the , and endure the noise that we did for the same purpose . |
| 6 | We decided we were n't going to get on without flirting with a lot of trouble , so we opted for the trusty 1-iron again . |
| 7 | It seemed to fly OK , so we prepared for the 482 kilometres water crossing to Australia . |
| 8 | But you need real people for a proper gloat so we headed for the cardboard suburb in the Strand . |
| 9 | By midday we were making giant strides , so we headed for the hills and learnt how to herringbone up them and swoosh down them . |
| 10 | It was exciting — they were good advertisements , and we waited for the first children to come . |
| 11 | There was no escape from it and we longed for the luxury of sun glasses or a peaked cap . |
| 12 | The colonel gave me a friendly pat on the shoulder , and we made for the outside world again . |
| 13 | I clapped Jamie on the shoulder a couple of times and we made for the street . |
| 14 | and erm in fact , yes , but both of just had died and we sent for the doctor and it 's |
| 15 | I immediately gestured to the Hurricanes to carry on to Malta by themselves as we were ditching and we turned for the coast ourselves , losing height all the way . |
| 16 | Surkov and Rozanov , escaping from admirers , joined me and we headed for the exit . |
| 17 | There were handshakes all round and the usual ‘ well playeds ’ , and we headed for the PGA hut where the scores are checked and handed in . |
| 18 | The pilot again tipped the canard on the edge of a stall and we dived for the field a second time . |
| 19 | More steam , more dust stirred up until we ran for the door gasping . |
| 20 | At Telford Fiona Baikie commented , ‘ We worked closely with our Field Officer while we prepared for the visit , and he helped college staff enormously . |
| 21 | While we waited for the service to finish we amused ourselves rearranging the flowers on the graves . |
| 22 | ‘ Where did you stay last night ? ’ he asked while we waited for the cameras to be set up . |
| 23 | He kissed me in the back of the car while we waited for the others , but nothing moved in me . |
| 24 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 25 | A night-cap was called for before we retired for the evening — where better than the Rovers Return ? |
| 26 | I made no comment on this at the time ( though privately I thought it a brash boast ) but when we met for the interview I asked if he had brought the pendulum with him . |
| 27 | We were bunched together in the semi-final of the 1976 Olympic 1500m in Montreal and as we went for the same small gap I felt his spike again my shin . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The grid screen is now shown , 45 squares wide and 38 squares high , as we saw for the intarsia chart printing . |
| 30 | Tamed native birds flocked on the poolside boardwalk of their rented hideaway , ‘ Hawksnest ’ , as we met for the first time , and Robin encircled his shyness with a stream-of-consciousness banter , made easier by the antics of a visiting cocker spaniel , which bit the head off a parrot . |