Example sentences of "we [vb past] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | We asked for an extra day , and that was fine . |
| 4 | And we asked for an extra ten days . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ We drove for a long time . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ! |
| 11 | But our rate was fixed , the girls 's rate We worked for a fixed rate . |
| 12 | Firstly we called for a major and sustained programme of development within West Belfast in order to reverse the history of long-term decline . |
| 13 | This remarkable event , as unlikely as a Papal Bull encouraging polyandry , we took for a good omen . |
| 14 | 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 ! |
| 15 | But we went for a long walk and Ally started talking about his work in a way I had n't heard before . |
| 16 | ‘ We went for an open systems solution because we wanted to build in flexibility for the future , ’ says ACCOUNTANCY 's Malcolm Cole . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | We hoped for a continuous flow of information and exchange of art and culture between the two countries . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | We continued for a short distance before pitching our tents in the boulder strewn tundra now below the elegant , ice-fluted summit of Chonku Chuli . |
| 21 | Nearing our high camp on an icy platform , in the shelter of a rocky outcrop at around 5,800m , we paused for a final appreciation of the tremendous highland panorama extending before us . |
| 22 | That was the doctoring that we had for a broken collar bone you see ? |
| 23 | I began to wonder what was happening when we stood for a long time at Birmingham New Street . |
| 24 | We travelled for a long time . |