Example sentences of "we [verb] [adv] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In true pilgrim tradition we prayed and did penance together and we also took our recreation together and we also took our recreation together and so on Wednesday evening we met together for a very happy celebration . |
| 2 | He relaxed with a happy grunt , and we lay peacefully for a bit longer . |
| 3 | Yeah , and we lived there for a long time did n't you , you stayed in that house for a long , long time |
| 4 | We lived together for a while . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ May we stay here for a little , until we find a place of our own ? ’ |
| 6 | But if we wait patiently for a few picoseconds until the charges rearrange themselves there will be no further motion and the problem belongs to the realm of electrostatics . |
| 7 | ‘ We came here for a purpose . |
| 8 | When we came home for a mid-day dinner , the washing lines in the back garden would be hung with sheets , towels , our clothes , hankies and so on . |
| 9 | We stand there for a second or two . |
| 10 | We walked from Little Thomham to Steams of Shimpling ; and we walked there for a week . |
| 11 | We settled instead for a three-hour five-course fish lunch at the Mont Frety in town , not far from the cablecar station . |
| 12 | I know that was you but y you do n't , I mean I remember u the fire we used to have here and it was n't till I gave it to a friend , I mean we kept here for a year alright , lucky enough , we did n't use it anyway I gave to a friend who doing car boot , I found it in the attic an he said to me Brenda , he said , did you ever use this fire ? |
| 13 | We sent away for a Plaque Attacker from an advert in your magazine . |
| 14 | er , how long have we got , oh about , not even half way through the tape yet , shall we go upstairs for a bit ? |
| 15 | ‘ We go abroad for a week or ten days every year , but I think we have a very simple life compared with many . |
| 16 | On the rare occasions when we went away for a fortnight — to my grandfather 's dank cottage on the Welsh border , land of the slate grey sky — I could hardly wait to get back and listen to the two-weeks ' worth of messages crammed on my answering machine . |
| 17 | Did we go I er I 'm now I 'm pretty sure we went home for a seven and a half hour day in twenty one , pretty sure that 's what one of the things that we did . |
| 18 | At Easter we went there for a holiday , and often have since . |
| 19 | We used to , we , I used to go when my husband was alive we used to go to erm Devon cos I had a brother living in Devon we used to go there , but er unfortunately I lost him when he was only fifty with a coronary , and so erm , in , cos and after that I lost my husband you see so cos we I 've never been away like that before , not , not since , years ago that was , he 's been gone twenty one years this Christmas sixteenth might be so , I 've not been able to so I , I , I go with the erm , I went with the Red Cross this year the year before last I went erm er , Char Charlie took me away we went to er a chalet we stayed at and er a friend of mine we went there for a week had a week there , that poured of rain every day , this year it poured of rain every day |
| 20 | I spent hours and hours around the flat , back of Kings College , Cambridge and er , you see and we , we went sometimes for a service . |
| 21 | ‘ We feel we should fight Mr Butters and let him take on a white elephant while we play elsewhere for a year and maybe we can return to Belle Vue . ’ |
| 22 | At the summit cairn on Shunner Fell , we paused only for a few seconds to look towards Swaledale and back towards Mallerstang before moving on . |
| 23 | At youth level we have also for a number of years sponsored the Scottish Schools National Swimming Championships and the Scottish Schools Badminton Union Competitions . |
| 24 | On my first visit , we sat together for a long time , talking of this and that . |