Example sentences of "[conj] we [verb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er , I am mindful chairman that I embarrassed you acutely at the end of education meeting on Friday , erm , and I know that I , I have a circumstance coming up in February , where I have a child who is unexpectedly on a training day , erm , on a day where I actually have two meetings of this council , now either I get substituted , or we arrange for a one off carer situation . |
| 2 | and we either go with the word report or we look for an alternative word or words . |
| 3 | But that that we ask for an exploration of the feasibility of widening the use of homes into nursing care , very sheltered accommodation , apartment style accommodation etcetera . |
| 4 | I decided to make a development of a circular pedestal table that we made for a client last year . |
| 5 | That was the doctoring that we had for a broken collar bone you see ? |
| 6 | Then , assuming " phantom " chains , the change in free energy per chain as the end-to-end vector R changes to is Averaging over all chains and remembering that we have For a network of n chains per unit volume the change in free energy will be n times this . |
| 7 | It there are two exceptions , that I mentioned , we must give prior consideration in any vacancy that we have for a registered disabled applicant . |
| 8 | The major difference between the American and British systems is that we vote for an MP , the party with the most MPs wins and its leader moves into Number Ten . |
| 9 | Chairman I have an amendment to that motion , because , because I believe it 's important that we start to identify a lot of councils publish at the end of the year for public consumption a list of the allowances drawn by members , and I think that would be very useful and I would make , as an amendment , I would , would add to the proposal put by Mr that we call for a report to be pu er , to be presented to us of the amounts of allowances drawn by members , each member |
| 10 | We may accept lower terms than we want for a job or a project , and in undervaluing ourselves we become less powerful in the eyes of others . |
| 11 | After visiting several suppliers and looking at various packages , I found that Dixons offered the best value , availability and longevity , so we opted for a Packard Bell 486SX . |
| 12 | Yes we had er ships wh we , they call erm these liberty ships come in from America loaded with bombs and when they moved them up there , well they call them down here they call them liberty ships and er the bombs were loaded , so they used to erm put all timber between each layer of bombs and they had proper carpenters who would fix all these and when the dockers went down , they put these bombs out , cos they were n't detonated , the detonators were in the fore end of the ship , right down the lower hull and erm the bombs were loaded into open trucks loaded into , well the dockers they thought it was dangerous , cos we had the Fire Brigade , that 's the fire service down there and standing by with the fire engines and dockers they wanted the , they want a shilling , I think it was a shilling a day extra , well a shilling extra something like that and there they got it the shilling or extra pound , cos us crane drivers we were n't on the same par as them , so we asked for a shilling . |
| 13 | The ocean of bad weather racing in from the north west did little to cheer me , so we sat for an hour while I gathered strength . |
| 14 | We 're walking back from the shops — me and Marie — and we stop for a bit to look at the lights in the electric shop . |
| 15 | The last time I saw Jonathan was Thursday evening when he picked me up in the car and we went for a drive . |
| 16 | I gathered up all my courage and went home and we went for a walk and I just told him . |
| 17 | and you go and stand at those castle round parts and we went for a walk and there was a football match going on was n't there ? |
| 18 | ‘ Stan called me and we met for a chat at his home . |
| 19 | I hid her precious sleeping pills for two days till she signed the form , and we ate for a while . |
| 20 | The only time a board memorandum might be contemplated is where the Information Memorandum includes forward projections ( typically seeking US buyers ) and we ask for a letter of representation ( see 1103.4 ) . |
| 21 | And we asked for an extra ten days . |
| 22 | On the telephone , I was greeted with a very friendly and hearty ‘ Well … well … well ! ’ and we chatted for a few minutes as if there had been no break in our contact . |
| 23 | She laughed , and we talked for a few minutes longer . |
| 24 | ‘ And we talked for a while . ’ |
| 25 | Joe made room for me with the same amount of good grace he might have afforded an enemy invading his castle and we sat for a few minutes without speaking , inspecting the view . |
| 26 | I opened it and we stood for a moment , rain driving down hard . |
| 27 | Odd-Knut finds a steep up-slope where a river joins the lake and we play for a bit going up and down steep slopes . |
| 28 | ‘ We ask a blessing of you , O Lord , as we go out on the beaches , and we pray for a really neat time and some big swells . |
| 29 | That is until we stopped for a toilet break in a lay-by , when the howling gale and torrential rain lashed our naked bottoms like a Cabinet minister in a Soho sauna , and made me glad to be back in the car beside the sleeping-bags . |
| 30 | ‘ If we go for a drive in his Escort and anything goes wrong with it , he knows I 'll be there to put it right ! ’ |