Example sentences of "we [vb past] 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ We drove for a long time . |
| 8 | 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 ! |
| 9 | We worked for a wider Europe , international peace , development and disarmament . |
| 10 | But our rate was fixed , the girls 's rate We worked for a fixed rate . |
| 11 | She laughed , and we talked for a few minutes longer . |
| 12 | We talked for a few minutes and he was in great spirits . |
| 13 | Firstly we called for a major and sustained programme of development within West Belfast in order to reverse the history of long-term decline . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | This remarkable event , as unlikely as a Papal Bull encouraging polyandry , we took for a good omen . |
| 16 | When this came to light we insisted for a few days that employees should seek permission to leave the company premises . |
| 17 | It was hard to know where to start but we went for a private sale and a Mazda 323 on the basis that Dave Baker ( our friend in Christchurch ) has a Mazda 323 and what 's good for Dave is good for us ! |
| 18 | But we went for a long walk and Ally started talking about his work in a way I had n't heard before . |
| 19 | So we went for a last look round . |
| 20 | We won for a third time at Zandvoort , the first grand prix of the season : apart from the prize money , that moved us up a scale on the start money and suddenly I could see our way through the rest of the season . |
| 21 | We hoped for a continuous flow of information and exchange of art and culture between the two countries . |
| 22 | We tested for a mating preference for large crests by comparing the attractiveness of models with short crests to the same models with crest feathers lengthened ( Fig. 1 ) , using three models of each sex to ensure that responses were not biased by unique characteristics of any one specimen . |
| 23 | We continued for a short distance before pitching our tents in the boulder strewn tundra now below the elegant , ice-fluted summit of Chonku Chuli . |
| 24 | Nearing our high camp on an icy platform , in the shelter of a rocky outcrop at around 5,800m , we paused for a final appreciation of the tremendous highland panorama extending before us . |
| 25 | When we reached the jetty we paused for a few moments to look across at the islet . |
| 26 | That was the doctoring that we had for a broken collar bone you see ? |
| 27 | I began to wonder what was happening when we stood for a long time at Birmingham New Street . |
| 28 | We stayed for a few days in Paris on the way home , and Elizabeth wrote to me at our hotel . |
| 29 | We travelled for a long time . |
| 30 | Joe made room for me with the same amount of good grace he might have afforded an enemy invading his castle and we sat for a few minutes without speaking , inspecting the view . |