Example sentences of "[conj] we [verb] [pron] for " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Even when Vinnie left — although we sold him for either what we bought him , or maybe 50 grand more , he had a very good season at Leeds , proved he could play a bit , he should have gone for more . |
| 2 | It 's a luxury though , I mean you know , you do n't need it , the fact that we got one for Christmas it was very nice , but |
| 3 | ‘ We were so good for so long that we took it for granted . |
| 4 | I was glad to be able to say that we had something for them in return — we were bringing a distinguished visitor in the person of George Turner , a Llangollen stationmaster in BR days , before the line was closed . |
| 5 | My recommendation is that we scrap them for the ten year decade of evangelism as a trial period and then think again in AD 2000 ! |
| 6 | This can only be good for the G M B and it would hopefully bring on board some , if not all of the doubting Thomases , that have said in the past that we do nothing for them . |
| 7 | At the end of the day , the lads requested that we do something for them . |
| 8 | ‘ And was n't he being romantic when he suggested that we consider you for this job ? |
| 9 | We both talk of love but those two were smarter than we took them for . |
| 10 | ( Incidentally , the papers give Kerslake 's transfer fee as 450,000 — that 's 50,000 less than we bought him for . ) |
| 11 | ‘ Most of the people around the business know how to use Lotus , so we use it for the majority of our day-to-day work , the smaller and the one-off jobs . |
| 12 | When I was at college I did a pastiche of the student magazine , doing the fold , and it was called Shell , so we renamed it for that one issue Rolling Shell , and I ever so carefully did the lettering for both the title boxes , then I got really disappointed when it came to set the type for the front page article underneath the big photograph which we printed as duo tone , because I could do it on the I B M — I could actually do it in Times and I thought it was going to be really , you know , I 'd have to really struggle and find |
| 13 | Moreover , we have all had human fathers who disciplined us and we respected them for it . |
| 14 | Yeah , because it should of been fifteen pounds a night and we got it for ten |
| 15 | Because nobody understands us , and we hate ourselves for needing to be understood . |
| 16 | plus expenses and we get nothing for it . |
| 17 | We get them from other people by communication ; and we get them for ourselves by thinking , or by observation , or both . |
| 18 | But Hampshire are top of the table and we outplayed them for two days . ’ |
| 19 | Sir David Nicholson retires from the Board this year and we thank him for his contribution to the Group over the past nine years . |
| 20 | The other car , the other De Dion we had , burst its radiator , but we are very resourceful ; we went and bought thirty foot of garden hose and connected it to the engine and sent the water round and round the car and that acted as a radiator , and we drove it for a week like that . |
| 21 | Now of course what happened is that we claimed , we w went to the insurance and then they took they got a list of what was damaged and we replaced it for what he 'd lost er exactly . |
| 22 | And the same thing , that if a major client like the Health and Safety Executive said to me , Ricky we 're running a regional training week in the last week of November , and we want you for three days , you know , I , I do n't say to them well look you know , well two of those days are catch up days , I ca n't possibly do it , why do n't you move your whole regional training week to next week ? |
| 23 | We decided to show it to a booking agent who books cabaret , so I spoke to Harry Dawson who did a lot of , cabaret work and we auditioned it for him . |
| 24 | The target was demonstrably stronger than the signal from the 24-cm calibration sphere , and we tracked it for 68 seconds , in which time it seemed to dive from 69 m to 114 m ( a speed of0–8 m/s or just under 3 km/h ) . |
| 25 | But even at his most confused , the essence of Maurice was still there , and we loved him for it even when it drove us spare . |
| 26 | Luckily the main guy was able to call me and we discussed it for quite some time . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Dave is our boffin , our crazy , lunatic , eccentric and we love him for it . |
| 28 | ‘ We do n't want to rush Mick because it 's a long season and we need him for the long haul . |
| 29 | The numbers are unbelievable until we see them for ourselves . |
| 30 | Their faces are often distorted into gargoyle shapes that appear hideous to us until we see them for what they are , exquisitely fashioned instruments for beaming ultrasound in desired directions . |