Example sentences of "we [vb past] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I made no comment on this at the time ( though privately I thought it a brash boast ) but when we met for the interview I asked if he had brought the pendulum with him . |
| 2 | I clapped Jamie on the shoulder a couple of times and we made for the street . |
| 3 | We were young , we lived for the moment . |
| 4 | And others , there 's money here which we got for the admin course which which can spend . |
| 5 | These ideas were confirmed by a special Gallup Opinion Poll we commissioned for the review . |
| 6 | ‘ We planned for the company to grow fast . |
| 7 | Naturally Terry had hard-line views on all this , and as we changed for the show on that charged night he proclaimed them to the entire cast , as if he were addressing a meeting . |
| 8 | Oh I know what we used for the board . |
| 9 | Surkov and Rozanov , escaping from admirers , joined me and we headed for the exit . |
| 10 | We headed for the north Norfolk coast , careering through the bright afternoon until Edward parked by a staithe where a creek coiled across a salt marsh , and we all piled out . |
| 11 | We stopped for the night a mile down the road just out of sight . |
| 12 | It led to an abandoned fishing hamlet called Hamningberg , where we camped for the night in a grassy field studded with interesting saxifrages and other flowers . |
| 13 | But as we prepared for the day in the early dawn , with the birds tuning up outside our African ‘ rondavel ’ hut , we both felt impelled to reach the tough core of the Right-wing settlers , Smith 's Rhodesia Front . |
| 14 | At Telford Fiona Baikie commented , ‘ We worked closely with our Field Officer while we prepared for the visit , and he helped college staff enormously . |
| 15 | ‘ After all , ’ he said , ‘ we came for the rainfall , which can hardly be a prime attraction on holiday . ’ |
| 16 | On his own decision to go for the draw with a last-minute John Liley penalty , Richards said pointedly : ‘ Trying to win the game by opting for the scrum would have been a waste of time because the moment we drove for the line , they would have wheeled it or collapsed it . |
| 17 | We met a group of walkers at the top , who cheered as we raced for the cross . |
| 18 | I immediately gestured to the Hurricanes to carry on to Malta by themselves as we were ditching and we turned for the coast ourselves , losing height all the way . |
| 19 | We paid for the holiday with just with change out of our pocket |
| 20 | But the money with which we paid for the house — and with which she bought her nylons and expensive corsets — came from scrap metal : though her father never spoke to her again after she left her first husband , she was his only child and he died intestate . |
| 21 | The next day , fresh chip butties and burgers in hand , we readied for the weekend 's big attraction : a copy of a New Generation episode , not due to be shown here for months . |
| 22 | That evening we left Fort St Nogent on a coach for the Gare de Lyons where we embarked for the south of France on an overnight express . |
| 23 | You had to , we worked for the castronery at the back . |
| 24 | Yesterday we called for the Attorney General , Sir Nicholas Lyell , to examine Courtney 's case following his conviction 15 days ago for two rapes and two indecent assaults . |
| 25 | We called for the introduction of Green Belts as part of a package of measures designed to revitalise town centres and protect surrounding countryside as green lungs for urban dwellers . |
| 26 | At seven we gathered for the party , most of us in summer trousers or Bermuda shorts and garlanded with home-made lei ( the Lord Chief Justice no exception ) . |
| 27 | and erm in fact , yes , but both of just had died and we sent for the doctor and it 's |
| 28 | The grid screen is now shown , 45 squares wide and 38 squares high , as we saw for the intarsia chart printing . |
| 29 | We went for the rate of inflation , and that is what the Sports Council got . |
| 30 | Why do not we set an example in Scotland , as we did for the poll tax ? |