Example sentences of "we [verb] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | We asked for an extra day , and that was fine . |
| 4 | And we asked for an extra ten days . |
| 5 | So how can we predict for a given metal which case will apply ? |
| 6 | We kiss for a long time , then I straighten up . |
| 7 | After battling winds and rain across the lake we stopped for a nutritious lunch and continued to battle our way to our second night 's camp . |
| 8 | We stopped for a few hours in Aberdeen , long enough to allow Father to take us to see the house we had lived in until 1939 : Stranathro , at Muchalls , perched high on the cliffs by the road to Stonehaven . |
| 9 | The main good grains on which we depend for an essential part of our daily diet come from plants belonging to the family of grasses and can not be readily digested until the tough outer shells are broken up and , sometimes , removed . |
| 10 | He said : ‘ We hope for a favourable result because Oswestry could be a major force in the Alliance . |
| 11 | A rest , a quick conflab and we decide to do another twenty miles and reach our tent before we stop for a long rest . |
| 12 | After dinner , we had the choice of watching a cabaret show performed by the Sol entertainments team , but more often than not , we opted for a relaxing drink in the Tenerife bar . |
| 13 | spotting a narrow isthmus on the map near Northton we opted for a large portage ; half a kilometre would be a long way but , following our Griminish Point experience , the safer option seemed favourable . |
| 14 | Are we looking for the year two thousand , or are we looking for a hundred years later than that , or what ? — the sort of age we have been describing in this programme ? |
| 15 | ‘ We drove for a long time . |
| 16 | We watch for a long time , Tony catching the show on camera , then notice that the temperature has plummeted with the clearing of the sky and turn in . |
| 17 | We stand for a few moments in each other 's arms , and I ask what we should do this evening . |
| 18 | We look for a quiet , dark place , and we do it in the car . ’ |
| 19 | Roger Gamlin of Amtrak Express Parcels explains : ‘ We look for a sales-oriented person with the ability to gain new customers . |
| 20 | and we either go with the word report or we look for an alternative word or words . |
| 21 | We climbed for an hour-and-a-half and I can tell you that going up a mountain on skins is not as easy as it looks . |
| 22 | Remembering the close encounter near Maralal , we arranged for an armed park ranger to accompany us , so that we would also be protected in case of emergency . |
| 23 | As you may know , our family lived in NZ from 1969 to 1978 and last year we returned for a 6-month tour , but I 've never been over the Haast Pass so that is a personal goal for me ! |
| 24 | We worked for a wider Europe , international peace , development and disarmament . |
| 25 | But our rate was fixed , the girls 's rate We worked for a fixed rate . |
| 26 | If we allow for a stochastic element in lifetime income , then individuals may respond rather differently , having for example a lower propensity to consume out of windfall or ‘ entrepreneurial ’ gains . |
| 27 | She laughed , and we talked for a few minutes longer . |
| 28 | We talked for a few minutes and he was in great spirits . |
| 29 | Firstly we called for a major and sustained programme of development within West Belfast in order to reverse the history of long-term decline . |
| 30 | On the telephone , I was greeted with a very friendly and hearty ‘ Well … well … well ! ’ and we chatted for a few minutes as if there had been no break in our contact . |