Example sentences of "we [verb] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | We met for the first time just two days before departure and accepted a murderous schedule of four games in 10 days , before opening against the New Zealand provincial champions just two days after a 25 hour journey to Dunedin . |
2 | Tamed native birds flocked on the poolside boardwalk of their rented hideaway , ‘ Hawksnest ’ , as we met for the first time , and Robin encircled his shyness with a stream-of-consciousness banter , made easier by the antics of a visiting cocker spaniel , which bit the head off a parrot . |
3 | On Wednesday 13 February , we met for the second time with pensions as the agenda item . |
4 | The colonel gave me a friendly pat on the shoulder , and we made for the outside world again . |
5 | We made for the top front of the vehicle , as this provided the best all-round view . |
6 | I think what I 'm trying to say is , in the minutes that we produced for the last meeting , it says that a copy of it will be available for the next meeting |
7 | To involve people in Billy Graham Crusades we asked for a specific and limited commitment , something that people understood and could accept : a prayer meeting in their home once a week , for five weeks only ; giving a monthly gift to the Crusade , for six months only . |
8 | The station was offered to us for the sum of £20,000 , but when we asked for a private valuation in the hope of securing a loan to purchase the site , the valuer valued the site at only £10,000 . |
9 | We asked for an extra day , and that was fine . |
10 | And we asked for an extra ten days . |
11 | Here we lived for the next fifteen years , with the eighteenth-century kirk across the road , and from my study window at the front a clear thirty-mile view across the Tweed valley to the distant Cheviots . |
12 | We qualified for the European championship without him , so we do n't have to take risks . ’ |
13 | We therefore have to solve for unc unc Knowing Mo , we now use ( 11 ) to evaluate unc whence in turn we find unc Since unc is non-singular , we may reduce the eigenproblem based on W1 to unc which we solve for the unknown |
14 | In this paper we report for the first time the isolation of cDNA for a zebrafish POU family gene which is ubiquitously expressed during embryogenesis . |
15 | Importantly , we report for the first time the ability to directly and effectively transfect cells in a growth arrested state . |
16 | We report for the first time the successful lithotripsy of a calcified cystic duct stone despite these relative and absolute contraindications in a patient with Crohn 's disease . |
17 | Perhaps if we are American we long for the early seventeenth-century Puritan theocracy of New England . |
18 | This is a combination of the list we used for the first plan and the list used for the draft of the second plan . |
19 | So how can we predict for a given metal which case will apply ? |
20 | We apologise for the technical quality of the interview with President Saddam in this report ; which was filed by Alistair Stewart from Washington on Thursday . |
21 | On occasion , the Minister has criticised the lack of detail in our overall defence expenditure proposals and what we propose for the Territorial Army and the reserve forces . |
22 | Seasonal style Great ideas for Christmas decorations READERS ' HOMES MICROWAVE MAGIC We test for the best CHRISTMAS COOKERY Festive dishes with a difference WINTER GARDENS How to breathe life into yours |
23 | — In common with the majority of hunt followers I do n't care whether the fox is killed or not : we hunt for the incomparable experience of galloping a horse across country behind the ‘ sweet cry of hounds ’ . |
24 | So what we do is erm your your cursor must be in the table somewhere , so you then go up to table , select table , then you 've got to format , border , and grid so we want the grid lines to show then in fact you can chose what we want for the outside border one of these Right , okay Now what I want you to do is set the questions , right ? |
25 | We headed for the 4th Squadron where we had been officially invited by some of the English members . |
26 | But you need real people for a proper gloat so we headed for the cardboard suburb in the Strand . |
27 | We kiss for a long time , then I straighten up . |
28 | Early in 1989 his book , A Brief History of Time , toppled my autobiography from No 1 to No 2 on the best-seller list , which positions we retained for the next 13 weeks . |
29 | We head for the open horizon . |
30 | We head for the local needle park . |