Example sentences of "[conj] we [verb] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Berkeley denies that we go in for such calculations in judging distances . |
| 2 | I want to touch him but ca n't , yet physical contact is something that we go in for . |
| 3 | Mother wept to see Father 's state , and proposed that we set out for Chiguana , the nearest town where we might expect to find a hospital , immediately . |
| 4 | Do you think it would come i You know that project that that erm project bid that we put in for . |
| 5 | The bid that we put in for erm looking at I mean would n't it would n't it come into that to a certain extent . |
| 6 | Those special events are treats that we save up for look forward to are also subject to the ravages of inflation . |
| 7 | Obviously , at the moment we 're not publicly pointing the finger at your five chums , so we went in for blanket forensic tests on everyone and examination of everyone 's quarters . ’ |
| 8 | She wanted a child , so we signed up for the eugenics lottery . |
| 9 | Two cyclists seemed fair game to these pissed idiots so we took off for the hills , only a small range but , we were to discover , quite beautiful . |
| 10 | The driver 's home was en route so we stopped off for mint tea there . |
| 11 | We were cooking for ourselves so we settled in for the evening and made ourselves comfortable . |
| 12 | hi er he 's got to go , he 's got his annual medical , it 's a very high-powered erm thing in Dundee on Tuesday , so Anne said that she would like to come up with him , potter about Dundee while he 's having his medical then they will come here on Tuesday evening , or late Tuesday afternoon , and we go out for a meal , and then of course , she 'll be with me all day on Thursday because he goes back up to Dundee to his managers ' meeting , you see . |
| 13 | If he had his way , and we signed up for the social chapter , those extra costs would have to be met out of those pay packets and there 'd be even less for people to take in wages so the honourable gentleman should n't be complaining about low pay when he wants to add to the costs of employment along with the rest of his party . |
| 14 | I met a friend at the college library and we went out for a coffee . |
| 15 | Cos Rita swears she 's been , I mean I was out with her once and we went in for a coffee and we finished , right , and we 're ready to go and I nearly said to her I hate it after you 've finished and Jackie lights up and then I have to sit there while she has a fag |
| 16 | ‘ We were staying in a hotel in Maidstone and we went back for a meal , then later , about tennish , we sneaked back to see if there was anything going down . |
| 17 | Our escorting Wellington was delayed due to phenomenal sandstorms in the Delta area , and it was only on 18 March that it arrived and we set off for Benina to refuel before the sea leg to Malta . |
| 18 | Mohammed came with us to Taroudant where Aziz organised the Tichka end ( his patch ) and we set off for the mountains . |
| 19 | However , prizegiving was only about half an hour later than planned and we set off for home at a reasonable hour . |
| 20 | I got on before I could change my mind and we bounced around for a few minutes . |
| 21 | An ironical cheer went up at this and we settled down for the night . |
| 22 | They 're all gon na be pissed on Friday cos we got in for nothing ! |
| 23 | ‘ You can stay here until we close up for the night , ’ she said . |
| 24 | Drink 's never been either here or there for me , bar a wee Baileys with my coffee if we go out for a meal and I always buy it in at Christmas , because most women like it . |
| 25 | Okay has anybody else got anything more on that on that subject ? if we go back for a bit and just go back to the |
| 26 | All three of us if we went up for a weekend . |
| 27 | I think , if we went on for another half an hour or forty five minutes , we could clear virtually everything . |
| 28 | Because women 's work is never done , and underpaid , or unpaid , or boring or repetitious and we 're the first to get the sack , and what we look like is more important than what we do , and if we get raped it 's our fault , and if we get bashed we must have provoked it , if we raise our voices we 're nagging bitches , and if we enjoy sex we 're nymphs and if we do n't we 're frigid , and if we love women it 's because we ca n't get a real man , and if we ask our doctor too many questions we 're neurotic and if we expect the community to care for our children we 're selfish , and if we stand up for our rights we 're aggressive and unfeminine , and if we do n't we 're typical weak females , and if we want to get married we 're out to trap a man , and if we do n't we 're unnatural , and because we ca n't get adequate safe contraceptives , but men can walk on the moon , and we ca n't cope or do n't want a pregnancy we 're made to feel guilty about abortion , and for lots and lots of other reasons we 're all part of the Women 's Liberation Movement . |
| 29 | But we stopped off for half an hour as well . |
| 30 | We yelled to 'er to keep still while we looked round for summat to throw to 'er to catch 'old of . |