Example sentences of "we [vb past] [to-vb] for the " in BNC.

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1 From the time of the Anschluss in March 1938 , until the outbreak of war in September 1939 , hopes of peace gradually faded and we began to prepare for the grim reality .
2 As we drove back we started to plan for the return to Backnong in 1993 .
3 In this study we aimed to record for the first time patterns of UOS motility associated with occurrence of GOR in children referred for evaluation of suspected disorders of oesophageal motility including pathological gastro-oesophageal reflux .
4 We learned to look for the black tongue , water that would take us between rocks .
5 No Met nor Notam information was displayed , and we had to ask for the Met before filing our flight-plan to Santiago .
6 So , no sooner did the record go into the charts and we were going ‘ yeah , this is it — hooray — we 're taking off ’ , they dropped the record and we had to wait for the guys to come back to earth .
7 Klaasen 's contention that ‘ the only integration that has gone on so far has been among the top officials ’ seemed to be borne out by the fact that we had to wait for the penultimate game of the tours to seen the first nonwhite player take the field .
8 So we 'd fill them and we could n't see anyway , lookin We could n't look down and see , we had to wait for the foreman shouting all the instructions , move left , forward or up or down .
9 We had to wait for the police and the doctor to certify what had happened .
10 His one break from bop conventions lay in the pacing of each set , since he favoured fast tempi almost exclusively , and we had to wait for the penultimate tune of the night to hear a ballad played at real ballad speed .
11 So we had to wait for the next bus , which was six o'clock .
12 It maybe still the same now , erm because right up to the time I erm retired we , we had on occasions to pay for the residual value of a tyre , perhaps a bus had been in accident and the tyre had suffered damage which it was n't possible to repair it or retread it , perhaps a hole had been pierced through the wall , they scrapped that tyre and we had to pay for the residual value , mind you being in accident we could then claim it off the insurance company but , so right up to the time I retired that 's how tyres were paid for .
13 We had to pay for the doctor .
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