Example sentences of "[subord] we [vb past] [vb pp] 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 If we had played for the whole 90 minutes as we did for the first hour we would have beaten Rangers . ’
5 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 ) .
6 Many years before we had looked for red kites , on a spring camping holiday in the valley of the River Tywi .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 When we had driven for ten minutes or so across the plain of frozen sea Harvey said , ‘ All out . ’
10 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 . ’
11 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 .
12 Though we had parted for ever , I did not believe our love was lost .
13 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 .
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