Example sentences of "[subord] we [vb past] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It led to an abandoned fishing hamlet called Hamningberg , where we camped for the night in a grassy field studded with interesting saxifrages and other flowers . |
| 2 | That evening we left Fort St Nogent on a coach for the Gare de Lyons where we embarked for the south of France on an overnight express . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | We decided we were n't going to get on without flirting with a lot of trouble , so we opted for the trusty 1-iron again . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It seemed to fly OK , so we prepared for the 482 kilometres water crossing to Australia . |
| 7 | But you need real people for a proper gloat so we headed for the cardboard suburb in the Strand . |
| 8 | By midday we were making giant strides , so we headed for the hills and learnt how to herringbone up them and swoosh down them . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | More steam , more dust stirred up until we ran for the door gasping . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | If we wished for a more restful effect we could use far less harmonic change , holding chords for several beats ( Example 35 ) : This shows how a broad area of melody can be accompanied by the same harmony . |
| 13 | Maybe because we settled for a point that late in the game ? ? |
| 14 | At Telford Fiona Baikie commented , ‘ We worked closely with our Field Officer while we prepared for the visit , and he helped college staff enormously . |
| 15 | While we waited for the service to finish we amused ourselves rearranging the flowers on the graves . |
| 16 | ‘ Where did you stay last night ? ’ he asked while we waited for the cameras to be set up . |
| 17 | He kissed me in the back of the car while we waited for the others , but nothing moved in me . |
| 18 | ‘ Like your party trick with the neutrino collectors and the hymetusite : we could n't have scaled it up enough to solve Earth 's energy shortfall , but it could have supported us here whilst we searched for the long-term solution — the high-mass elements in Lucifer 's core . ’ |
| 19 | A night-cap was called for before we retired for the evening — where better than the Rovers Return ? |
| 20 | But when we went for a fitting , the garments had been made with buttons just sewn onto tacky fake buttonholes . |
| 21 | There were a lot of crows when we went for a walk before flying round . |
| 22 | And then when we went for a drink he used to say are you not buying me a drink ? |
| 23 | I made no comment on this at the time ( though privately I thought it a brash boast ) but when we met for the interview I asked if he had brought the pendulum with him . |
| 24 | The station was offered to us for the sum of £20,000 , but when we asked for a private valuation in the hope of securing a loan to purchase the site , the valuer valued the site at only £10,000 . |
| 25 | When we asked for a script from that side from the beginning , it did n't come . |
| 26 | I began to wonder what was happening when we stood for a long time at Birmingham New Street . |
| 27 | When we stopped for a picnic lunch we were pestered by a cheeky jackdaw which squabbled with seagulls for its share in the scraps of our sandwiches . |
| 28 | It was just a bedsit she had early in our marriage when we parted for a while . |
| 29 | We were bunched together in the semi-final of the 1976 Olympic 1500m in Montreal and as we went for the same small gap I felt his spike again my shin . |
| 30 | Anyway , it 's one of the minor unfortunate facts of life that a detumescing willy is prone to trap stray pube hairs under the foreskin as it scrolls forward again , and that was why I was adjusting my clothing as we braked for the bend above Cairndow . |