Example sentences of "[subord] we [verb] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even when Vinnie left — although we sold him for either what we bought him , or maybe 50 grand more , he had a very good season at Leeds , proved he could play a bit , he should have gone for more . |
| 2 | We both talk of love but those two were smarter than we took them for . |
| 3 | ( Incidentally , the papers give Kerslake 's transfer fee as 450,000 — that 's 50,000 less than we bought him for . ) |
| 4 | ‘ Most of the people around the business know how to use Lotus , so we use it for the majority of our day-to-day work , the smaller and the one-off jobs . |
| 5 | When I was at college I did a pastiche of the student magazine , doing the fold , and it was called Shell , so we renamed it for that one issue Rolling Shell , and I ever so carefully did the lettering for both the title boxes , then I got really disappointed when it came to set the type for the front page article underneath the big photograph which we printed as duo tone , because I could do it on the I B M — I could actually do it in Times and I thought it was going to be really , you know , I 'd have to really struggle and find |
| 6 | The numbers are unbelievable until we see them for ourselves . |
| 7 | Their faces are often distorted into gargoyle shapes that appear hideous to us until we see them for what they are , exquisitely fashioned instruments for beaming ultrasound in desired directions . |
| 8 | We would prefer to go back but if we close it for good it would be far better to have no Timex in Dundee than a Timex with scab labour earning scab wages and working under scab conditions . ’ |
| 9 | But if we keep them for the next ten years they 're a a real bargain , if , if , if |
| 10 | Even if we confine ourselves for the moment to the late sixth and fifth centuries B.C. , when the options were more limited , the road of the Rhone was not the only route for traffic between Celts and Greeks . |
| 11 | But , that just means the levels of insurance , as a risk , ah , you know , and we 've just put a rate in to , to represent the , the levels of insurance because we charge you more if we insure you for more then . |
| 12 | I says if we do it for you it 'll cost you a fortune , he said |
| 13 | If we find him for you , I fancy we 'd value a few minutes of his time ourselves , if we find him … ’ |
| 14 | But does that stop the problem if if we report someone for depositing litter I E a settee , I mean they do n't want to really deposit it there , is it quality of life that 's forced them to do it . |
| 15 | Unless we care nothing for human freedom and are impervious to human suffering , denunciation seems an implausible general justification for a system which deliberately inflicts punishment on people . |
| 16 | Our canvas stretcher-beds were quickly drenched with blood , because we used them for the worst wounded — the others had to be laid on the tiled floor . |
| 17 | ‘ We 've been doing M&A for years but do n't have the same profile as others because we do it for private clients who just want to sell a company or buy one . ’ |
| 18 | But that was only after we had it for about thirty years or , or more . |
| 19 | When we asked them for details about their visit they were very coy . |
| 20 | It is the kind of rapid , critical examination to which we expose another person when we encounter them for the first time . |