Example sentences of "for we a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Take advice from experienced traveller Simon Hooton — who 's tested for us a wide range of outdoor clothing currently available — and build up ( or take off ) the layers to cope with everything that 's thrown at you . |
| 2 | This year he found for us a first edition of an early play by Samuel Beckett , an important book about China , and the original German text of theopera DerFreischütz , as well as other lovely things . |
| 3 | Those were for us a real burden . |
| 4 | As far as the RAF was concerned , they had this nice little lull when losses fell substantially , so it was for us a calm period in the storm . |
| 5 | Everything at Berbera was unfamiliar and exciting : the barren , burnt-up countryside , so very different from the highlands of Abyssinia ; the camel herds at the wells ; the gaunt , half-naked Somalis with great mops of hair , leaning on their spears and talking a harsh incomprehensible language ; the bugle calls ; the uniformed troops drilling on their parade ground , and especially an evening when they staged for us a realistic attack with blank ammunition on a position " held " by tribesmen . |
| 6 | It is our long-held view that foreign spent nuclear fuel should not be sent to Dounreay for storage , let alone for reprocessing , because it breaches what is for us a fundamental principle : that the responsibility for the disposal of spent nuclear fuel should lie with the reactor operators . |
| 7 | The earth upon which God has placed us should be for us a special trust from one generation to another . |