Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] we [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each boy had a inkwell and er a pen , blue-black ink and so on and some of the small books that we used for writing in were kept under the desk . |
| 2 | The one day schools that we run for school teachers in the South East of England , a larger catchment area than the East and West Sussex — in fact it goes up towards London and it includes London — it goes out towards Kent and Portsmouth . |
| 3 | We then talked about the first of those two towers of Tower Bridge if you remember which was about the skills that we need for er delivery . |
| 4 | I think so yes , I think , well I think we can , we 've got to have the hours that we pay for . |
| 5 | We must either have such confidence in social work 's professional values that we wait for everything to sort itself out , or social workers must grasp their own destiny . |
| 6 | You ca n't explain it with the funny little rules that we have for how your potential and different things vary in your circuit . |
| 7 | But many of the household products and home improvements that we take for granted are potentially harmful . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | In the afternoon we visited the Priory ruins where we prayed for unity and for the Decade of Evangelisation and finished off with a lusty rendition of Faith of our Fathers ! |
| 10 | We all have to keep up appearances while we wait for the tide to turn . |
| 11 | As always I got up at once so that I might cherish the ninety minutes until we assembled for work — minutes that were mine — not the authorities . |
| 12 | I clapped Jamie on the shoulder a couple of times and we made for the street . |
| 13 | And er there will also be details about er the targets that we set for that particular project . |
| 14 | It means the whole sale change of forms and colours and it must reduce the range of other colours that we have for other forms , do n't necessarily go into those wallets . |
| 15 | He spent a month there , and his photographs show that the production of tyres , which are things that we take for granted , depend on individuals , their skills , and a surprising amount of physical effort . |
| 16 | I think there 's one other thing that 's worth thinking about , and that is that many of our students come into the University for one-day schools , for lectures , for activities of this kind , and this gives an opportunity for a kind of reciprocal traffic , if you like , so that people outside who often have very odd ideas of what universities do and what they 're about and what they 're like , can actually see your University , participate in its activities , and we can see ordinary folk who sometimes ask the shrewdest questions and make sometimes what seem to be the most penetrating kinds of points about the sort of things that we take for granted . |
| 17 | The increase in resources that we propose for the Health Service in I 989 will enable the NHS to extend its remarkable record of achievement . |
| 18 | A few things while we wait for a report of some description ( hint hint ; - ) |
| 19 | lady Victoria , curator of the Burghley House collection , will talk about Japanese porcelain : Kakiemon treasures and there will be time for questions before we break for coffee . |
| 20 | ‘ We 're also recognising the strength of local teams as we drive for increased market share in the individual countries of the new Europe . |
| 21 | We use the same word for a quality of material things as we use for a bodily sensation . |
| 22 | I learned to love what Diana and Mary loved — the little old grey house , the wild open moors around it , and the lonely hills and valleys where we walked for hours . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Well so far we 've just been looking at the record of growth bands in this coral skeleton , but we can acquire a great deal of additional information by sampling the skeleton , and we sample the skeleton using a small drill and we can analyze the , the powders that we collect for the stabilized of oxygen . |
| 25 | Because we , we had this when , when we carried out a political fund ballot erm and we asked for time off for stewards to go and talk to members and we asked for time off for a seminar , for a one day seminar . |
| 26 | Some of the emphasis which is placed on general and mass trends in modern history arises from a sort of optical illusion , because we have so much more information about the general nature and working of recent societies than we have for earlier periods . |
| 27 | I would imagine the plaster wall have to be replaced cos there 's a lot of work that needs to be done on t we 've already had to deal with the plastering once , in fact we would n't have noticed cos we had n't seen it before but what happened is that the the frame of the hall particularly shrank so that we had gaps in between where the plastering was and where the wood was and we had to have a couple of men that we used for this , erm come in with lime plaster and fill in all the cracks for a week or two . |
| 28 | Er with a perceived value of something like ten or twelve pounds but er that can be self financing with the profit on the bottles that the bottle tops that we ask for . |
| 29 | Is it realising the socialist ideals that we stood for ? |
| 30 | The possible states preceding the solution-state are taken as destinations and we look for states that might have preceded each of them … and so on back , until we are within range of where we start . |