Example sentences of "and we [verb] [verb] for " in BNC.

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1 And we got done for conspiracy to cause GBH .
2 No Met nor Notam information was displayed , and we had to ask for the Met before filing our flight-plan to Santiago .
3 In the second half we saw little ball and we had to defend for our lives .
4 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 .
5 But all the local ambulances were busy and we had to wait for one to come from Richmond , which is many miles away .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 We greatly respect and value each of our employees and we strive to provide for them an appropriate workplace environment .
9 Today , almost everyone has a refrigerator and we tend to take for granted chilled food and beverages and the storage of perishable foods .
10 Since then I 've been in contact with Kate Noble of Age Concern and we 've arranged for her to give a short presentation at the next meeting of Nether Wyresdale Parish Council on Thursday 21st January at 7.30 p.m. in Scorton School .
11 And we 've allowed for the fact that cooking for a family or organising a dinner party may take you away from the cooker when you want the food to go on cooking .
12 For my part , I told her that I was sure Aisha had a lover and we began searching for proof .
13 A.J. Wickens , K.C. and other prominent citizens made up the Board of Directors and we began to look for commercial advertisers .
14 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 .
15 Priorities only seem useful when we can not get exactly what we want and we have to settle for second-best .
16 ’ Even if a car is n't in stock and we have to wait for it to be built , we can generally hold the agreed price . ’
17 ‘ I have to admit we let him down over the gearbox which was slipping out of sixth gear and we have apologised for that .
18 ‘ There are children with physical , mental and behavioural difficulties and we have to look for a range of staff to reflect the balance , ’ he said .
19 Six patients remained in whom there was no apparent explanation for their DU disease and we have chosen for convenience to refer to these patients as having idiopathic DU .
20 Cos I , I were asking if they wanted a baked tatie and that and we stood waiting for them and you noticed on sack
21 We ate heartily every night , we could afford croissants at breakfast , and we stopped scrounging for cigarettes .
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