Example sentences of "we [vb past] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The colonel gave me a friendly pat on the shoulder , and we made for the outside world again .
2 We made for the top front of the vehicle , as this provided the best all-round view .
3 To involve people in Billy Graham Crusades we asked for a specific and limited commitment , something that people understood and could accept : a prayer meeting in their home once a week , for five weeks only ; giving a monthly gift to the Crusade , for six months only .
4 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 .
5 We asked for an extra day , and that was fine .
6 And we asked for an extra ten days .
7 We qualified for the European championship without him , so we do n't have to take risks . ’
8 But you need real people for a proper gloat so we headed for the cardboard suburb in the Strand .
9 After battling winds and rain across the lake we stopped for a nutritious lunch and continued to battle our way to our second night 's camp .
10 We played for the British ambassador and some Irish teachers and workers who were out there .
11 After dinner , we had the choice of watching a cabaret show performed by the Sol entertainments team , but more often than not , we opted for a relaxing drink in the Tenerife bar .
12 spotting a narrow isthmus on the map near Northton we opted for a large portage ; half a kilometre would be a long way but , following our Griminish Point experience , the safer option seemed favourable .
13 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 .
14 We drove for a long time .
15 Remembering the close encounter near Maralal , we arranged for an armed park ranger to accompany us , so that we would also be protected in case of emergency .
16 As you may know , our family lived in NZ from 1969 to 1978 and last year we returned for a 6-month tour , but I 've never been over the Haast Pass so that is a personal goal for me !
17 ‘ I 've got the tickets we ordered for the Welsh match at Twickenham next month .
18 But our rate was fixed , the girls 's rate We worked for a fixed rate .
19 So we settled for the International Press Centre …
20 Firstly we called for a major and sustained programme of development within West Belfast in order to reverse the history of long-term decline .
21 This remarkable event , as unlikely as a Papal Bull encouraging polyandry , we took for a good omen .
22 It was hard to know where to start but we went for a private sale and a Mazda 323 on the basis that Dave Baker ( our friend in Christchurch ) has a Mazda 323 and what 's good for Dave is good for us !
23 But we went for a long walk and Ally started talking about his work in a way I had n't heard before .
24 We went for an open systems solution because we wanted to build in flexibility for the future , ’ says ACCOUNTANCY 's Malcolm Cole .
25 He said : ‘ Originally we went for an American-style back-end load or exit charge which was tapered to reduce by a percentage point for each year an investment was held .
26 That 's all we did for the statutory undertakers .
27 However , the figure we gave for the annual input of carbon into the soil ( 1.2 tonnes of carbon per hectare per year ) include the carbon contributed by algae and photosynthetic bacteria .
28 We hoped for a continuous flow of information and exchange of art and culture between the two countries .
29 We tested for a mating preference for large crests by comparing the attractiveness of models with short crests to the same models with crest feathers lengthened ( Fig. 1 ) , using three models of each sex to ensure that responses were not biased by unique characteristics of any one specimen .
30 ‘ 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 . ’
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