Example sentences of "we [verb] [pron] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " We sell them for a penny each , " Miss Poraway explained . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | We asked you for a letter written by a father to his son admitting that he has some embarrassing or socially undesirable condition . |
| 4 | We asked you for a diatribe in verse from Neil Kinnock against the Tory press , the short-sighted public , or anyone or anything else he might be against at the moment . |
| 5 | We got one for the car , you plug it in the cigarette lighter |
| 6 | A short bubble-ride up to 1850m brought us to L'Altipiano , where we fortified ourselves for the afternoon 's skiing with a lengthy and very enjoyable lunch . |
| 7 | We monitored them for a period of about twelve months before we reported to members on the outcome . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It is the kind of rapid , critical examination to which we expose another person when we encounter them for the first time . |
| 10 | We want him for a month on loan to give him a proper chance . ’ |
| 11 | We tried it for a whole year . |
| 12 | We done it for a laugh and because we were bored and it got out of hand . |
| 13 | We breed them for the course , especially and also now for the sport . ’ |
| 14 | But if you wanted a single bed moving , then the cheapest way would be just to have one man , he comes we charge you for the time we take , with a minimum of an hour 's charge . |
| 15 | Would n't we do anything for a loved one to take us in his or her arms ? |
| 16 | We prepared ourselves for the experience by drinking half a bottle of brandy each — I was worried about him until then . |
| 17 | The other car , the other De Dion we had , burst its radiator , but we are very resourceful ; we went and bought thirty foot of garden hose and connected it to the engine and sent the water round and round the car and that acted as a radiator , and we drove it for a week like that . |
| 18 | My recommendation is that we scrap them for the ten year decade of evangelism as a trial period and then think again in AD 2000 ! |
| 19 | No matter how worthwhile a project seems we attack it for the hidden and sinister purposes behind it . |
| 20 | They say , ah well , we followed you for a tenth of a mile , right , and it took you so long to cover that . |
| 21 | And then if they come along and change anything we hit , we hit them for the , the extras . |
| 22 | Shall we take her for a walk ? |
| 23 | By that method we fix our minds on some central point : we suppose it for the time to be reduced to a stationary state ; and we then study in relation to it the forces that affect the things by which it is surrounded , and any tendency there may be to equilibrium of these forces . |
| 24 | But if we keep them for the next ten years they 're a a real bargain , if , if , if |
| 25 | We use it for a bedside rug in cold weather . |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . |
| 27 | We took him for an X-ray . |
| 28 | We thought it a good idea to start off by hiring a motor caravan , or camper van as they 're called in NZ , but as it was quite expensive we took it for a fortnight just to try it . |
| 29 | We saw it for a moment and then the match went out . |
| 30 | Well , can I propose we try it for the next three meetings , and |