Example sentences of "[subord] we [vb past] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I half slept , then woke as we sped by the rest house where we had stopped for juice on that first visit to Al Ain . |
| 2 | So there was only one helicopter instead of two , which meant less heliskiing than we had hoped for . |
| 3 | If we are accused of structuring a massive bid proposal to expressly favour G Tec , and if G Tec end up being the only bidder we should expect to encounter major public relations and or legal problems , and we could end up paying far more than we had anticipated for the needed goods and services . |
| 4 | The Chinese do n't like their planes to fly unless the weather is absolutely O.K. So we had to wait for a few hours for the plane to arrive from Shanghai . |
| 5 | ‘ Our lease was ending on the old building so we had to look for somewhere different , ’ says . |
| 6 | I says oh I du n no , I said oh Sharon 'll fetch dad over , so we sat waiting for her and then they come |
| 7 | And it was n't until we started analysing for zinc that we realized what the problem was . |
| 8 | If we had played for the whole 90 minutes as we did for the first hour we would have beaten Rangers . ’ |
| 9 | If we had trained for jobs such as guard , signalman or even fireman and driver then we could do at least some of the operating jobs ( guard and signalman training is not difficult ) . |
| 10 | Should you mind if we went to look for something to drink instead ? " |
| 11 | If we wished to pay for welfare in a way that was less burdensome on the poor without being massively destructive to the higher income groups what might be done ? |
| 12 | This needed some clarification before we began to look for an answer . |
| 13 | Many years before we had looked for red kites , on a spring camping holiday in the valley of the River Tywi . |
| 14 | After we had rehearsed for three weeks , on the very last night of rehearsal , we worked till four in the morning then photos were taken of us in these spangled costumes ; because they stretched from our ankles to our necks , we could n't sit down . |
| 15 | We were told not to do this , told not to come here , told to sledge and throw snowballs and make snowmen all we wanted , but not even to come near the loch and the river , in case we fell through the ice ; and yet Andy came here after we 'd sledged for a while on the slope near the farm , walked down here through the woods despite my protests , and then when we got here to the river bank I said well , as long as we only looked , but then Andy just whooped and jumped down onto the boulder-lumped white slope of shore and sprinted out across the pure flat snow towards the far bank . |
| 16 | Disco said ‘ We may have made some mistakes in our business plan when we chose to go for growth . |
| 17 | When we had driven for ten minutes or so across the plain of frozen sea Harvey said , ‘ All out . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ When we got married for instance , I had to give up teaching because there was a regulation which said husbands and wives could n't both teach and of course it was the wives who left . ’ |
| 19 | Two-year-olds generally cots and , though we had asked for one in advance , we were provided with a single bed which we had to surround with cushions to make it safe . |
| 20 | Though we had parted for ever , I did not believe our love was lost . |
| 21 | Soviet policy with regard to Eastern Europe was sloganised as ‘ development in groups ’ , as though we had to wait for Mongolia to catch up before we could be allowed to develop . |
| 22 | I think it still is the way forward and I do n't think it was so much that things went wrong as that they did n't go as well as we had hoped for the women elections to the shadow cabinet . |
| 23 | As we sat waiting for the last half-hour to grind away , the young Sheikh lifted the phone and telephoned his grandmother — his mother 's mother , not Sheikha Grandmother , who was still on her visit to her daughter . |