Example sentences of "we [verb] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Stan called me and we met for a chat at his home . |
| 2 | With an interpreter we met for a drink and he told me that because his home was in East Germany he had been forbidden to travel abroad until quite recently when he became an old-age Pensioner ; this voyage was his first taste of freedom . |
| 3 | We met for a drink . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | We applied for a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund on the basis that its support alone could save the church . |
| 6 | I decided to make a development of a circular pedestal table that we made for a client last year . |
| 7 | Oh , by the way , ’ Luke said , locking the door behind them , ‘ Bob Tilling in Accounts just happened to mention the other day that you had settled an invoice for a piece we made for a client in Sherwood Forest . ’ |
| 8 | Before she reached the precincts of Iona she made the round of the Sound of Mull , called at Tobermory , where she was unnecessarily detained by some shippers not having a lot of sheep waiting ; she sailed up Loch Sunart , got on board part of a flock of sheep at Salen Pier , landed them at Croag in Mull ; and now we made for the Isle of Coll , — the ‘ Sandy Coll ’ Sir Walter speaks of . |
| 9 | I clapped Jamie on the shoulder a couple of times and we made for the street . |
| 10 | And we know that he was left this red chest of Flanders so we sought for a Flanders chest , that 's a chest probably actually made in North Germany but imported through Flanders and we found a Yorkshire example in a place called near Ripon . |
| 11 | Finally we asked for a change in the wording of supplementary benefit law which would abolish the term ‘ cohabitation ’ , with its sexual connotations , and substitute what seemed the more decent and objective phrase , ‘ living together as husband and wife ’ . |
| 12 | We asked for a lament in verse or a prose epitaph for Punch |
| 13 | Yes , on page three , one twenty , chair , we asked for a date , the date of that conference is the thirteenth and fourteenth of December . |
| 14 | Yes we had er ships wh we , they call erm these liberty ships come in from America loaded with bombs and when they moved them up there , well they call them down here they call them liberty ships and er the bombs were loaded , so they used to erm put all timber between each layer of bombs and they had proper carpenters who would fix all these and when the dockers went down , they put these bombs out , cos they were n't detonated , the detonators were in the fore end of the ship , right down the lower hull and erm the bombs were loaded into open trucks loaded into , well the dockers they thought it was dangerous , cos we had the Fire Brigade , that 's the fire service down there and standing by with the fire engines and dockers they wanted the , they want a shilling , I think it was a shilling a day extra , well a shilling extra something like that and there they got it the shilling or extra pound , cos us crane drivers we were n't on the same par as them , so we asked for a shilling . |
| 15 | In the first place , we asked for a salary rise , a reduction in land rents and more fertile land because usually the owners round there would rent us plots which were n't good for anything . |
| 16 | When we asked for a script from that side from the beginning , it did n't come . |
| 17 | And er she wanted er you know she has visions of us filling the streets of from to with banners waving and the we asked for no banners in the first rally we had back in October because we did n't want it to be seen as some thing that had you know big sort of take over and everybody you know the Communist Party and the language people and er all the different factions being able to wave their banners you know , We support the Blaenau quarry men . |
| 18 | all that 's been disclosed is one as far as I know , erm your Lordship can see that I at some stage need to have a look at them , er before I complete in any way so I can cross examine Mr er my Lord may I just say this , on the seventeenth of November , that 's two days ago , we asked for the documents of the necessary twelve M P's two days ago |
| 19 | The reason we asked for the figures is to get a ball park idea . |
| 20 | We lived for a year in a cottage attached to a remote farm — so remote that I have never been able to find it again . |
| 21 | ‘ We lived for a time in Washington DC , ’ she said slowly . |
| 22 | We were young , we lived for the moment . |
| 23 | And others , there 's money here which we got for the admin course which which can spend . |
| 24 | These ideas were confirmed by a special Gallup Opinion Poll we commissioned for the review . |
| 25 | We concentrate for a while on I , the principle of induction . |
| 26 | So what do we want for the counsellees , or rather , what should they want for themselves ? |
| 27 | ‘ We planned for the company to grow fast . |
| 28 | Also , voting for this season 's 1st team seems interesting , but should we wait for a couple of weeks before all signings are done . |
| 29 | Where do we need for a Kids ' County where are we after ? |
| 30 | 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 . |