Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] for we [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Were we going to go for impersonal macro-solutions , or were we going to realise that the people were looking for us as their leaders to provide an answer to their difficulties ? |
| 2 | Back in Asyut the Friends of the Tourists were waiting for us outside our hotel . |
| 3 | The Santerres were waiting for us with Bowyer who looked as if he had really settled in , shirt open at the collar , stubby feet enclosed in buskins whilst his fat face was flushed with drink and his breath smelt like a wine press . |
| 4 | The rest of the party were waiting for us in a courtyard full of yapping dogs ; long , lean greyhounds , black , white and brindled . |
| 5 | He passed them on to another colleague who led us finally to our places which were kept for us in the Grand Salon . |
| 6 | While Famlio was looking for us near the Fraxilly sector , we 'd be elsewhere . |
| 7 | What they witnessed , and what was recreated for us by the Ulster Youth Dance Company in Stranmillis College Theatre at the weekend was a spectacle far more disturbing and revolutionary . |
| 8 | it was erm it was bought for us in July ah July |
| 9 | Mr Trelawney was waiting for us at an inn , near the sea . |
| 10 | Late in the morning Valeria suggested we should all go down and have breakfast , and as we came down the staircase we saw to our horror that her mother was waiting for us at the bottom . |
| 11 | The steward was waiting for us at the foot of the steps . |
| 12 | ‘ When we stopped at Glastonbury , Mistress Rachel sent a message , God knows how , to that old witch who was waiting for us with her prophecies . |
| 13 | That one was taken for us at Kristof Laszlo 's studio — you 'd have to ask him about it . ’ |
| 14 | The opening ceremony was managed for us by Cosmo PR in Tokyo and a specially selected audience of 120 people came to the event including around 70 customers from the four business areas represented at KITEC . |