Example sentences of "we [vb base] [adv] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Now , we advertise repeatedly for any POWs who are in trouble , and we are only too pleased to help them . |
| 2 | We make up for this , however , by an almost psychopathic competitiveness . |
| 3 | We sit there for some time but I keep glancing up , and gradually become terrified that the man is somehow not dead or has become a zombie and is climbing back up the shaft towards us , to push the grating up and put his already rotting hands down and grab us both by the hair . |
| 4 | We sit there for half an hour perhaps and log one car , a few walkers , several cows , perhaps a few ghosts . |
| 5 | We apologise sincerely for this clerical error , and regret the confusion and inconvenience it has caused . |
| 6 | Like the Friday we break up for half term . |
| 7 | England captain Graham Gooch offered no excuses for his team 's humiliating defeat , saying : ‘ We set off for this series with high hopes but nothing has gone right for us . |
| 8 | If you would like to see me on top of Michael 's bonfire ring in and the er th th the more amount of votes we get in for that |
| 9 | Then , again inevitably , we turn away for another change of view , perhaps this time towards the Propylaea and Nike Apteros . |
| 10 | It is always pleasant at our large gatherings for the Society to present a unified image which is why we ask particularly for all those taking part in the open classes to wear ALL MEDAU BLUE OR ALL NAVY BLUE . |
| 11 | Berkeley denies that we go in for such calculations in judging distances . |
| 12 | So anyway off we goes course when we come back for half an hour at ten o'clock well out of the other machine were n't it ? |
| 13 | It is important that we pray regularly for those who have the responsibility of directing the technical aspects of the project — Rodney Beaumont , Douglas Fergus , John Hilditch , Don McLean & Ronnie Martin . |
| 14 | We pray especially for those that You have placed in close proximity to us ; our relatives ; our neighbours ; those we meet day by day . |
| 15 | And father we pray too for those who are not well and unable to come . |
| 16 | And we pray too for those whom we represent . |
| 17 | Humiliation of those in power We search diligently for some fault in them and , having found it , we broadcast our discovery through the instantly available and internationally linked media , sometimes with negligible supporting data . |
| 18 | So of course when Tom was put up and er there was about five of us put up for this job , they was all members of that union and I was n't . |
| 19 | ‘ Are you sure you do n't mind having us stay on for another day ? ’ |