Example sentences of "be [conj] we [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may also be that we look for different attributes in different parts of the public service . |
| 2 | What you are about to suggest , of course , is that we wait for the Kilcharran to come along and hoist the damn thing to the surface . ’ |
| 3 | The major difference between the American and British systems is that we vote for an MP , the party with the most MPs wins and its leader moves into Number Ten . |
| 4 | The arguments given in favour is that we vote for the wise and then the wise go on to make a proper final decision about who 's best . |
| 5 | One of the contexts in which we are exercising ministry is that we have for the last fifty years well I have n't personally ! |
| 6 | If we have only indicators what his methodological reasoning suggests is that we look for patterns among indicators which might suggest that we have found something of substance and significance . |
| 7 | I think that the first thing that one would have to say is that we work for the Ministry of Defence , and not the Ministry of War and therefore we are about defence , we 're about the maintenance of peace , erm this you know maintaining of justice etc etc . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ You show me exactly where this place is and we wait for him to show . |
| 10 | It seems incredible to us today that Carey should have had such difficulty in convincing christians of the necessity of sharing the Gospel with ‘ the heathen ’ , but this is because we take for granted the radical influence his views have had upon our modern view of mission . |
| 11 | Sometimes we will be going upstairs to get something but , by the time we are there , we have forgotten what it was that we went for . |