Example sentences of "we [vb past] for [art] [noun sg] " 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 | I clapped Jamie on the shoulder a couple of times and we made for the street . |
9 | 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 ’ . |
10 | We asked for a lament in verse or a prose epitaph for Punch |
11 | Yes , on page three , one twenty , chair , we asked for a date , the date of that conference is the thirteenth and fourteenth of December . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | When we asked for a script from that side from the beginning , it did n't come . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | ‘ We lived for a time in Washington DC , ’ she said slowly . |
17 | We were young , we lived for the moment . |
18 | And others , there 's money here which we got for the admin course which which can spend . |
19 | These ideas were confirmed by a special Gallup Opinion Poll we commissioned for the review . |
20 | ‘ We planned for the company to grow fast . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | Oh I know what we used for the board . |
23 | Surkov and Rozanov , escaping from admirers , joined me and we headed for the exit . |
24 | We headed for the north Norfolk coast , careering through the bright afternoon until Edward parked by a staithe where a creek coiled across a salt marsh , and we all piled out . |
25 | Mid-way , after a long , hard time , we stopped for a rest — at least , as much of a rest as you can get standing in knee-deep water unable to put down your rucsac . |
26 | That is until we stopped for a toilet break in a lay-by , when the howling gale and torrential rain lashed our naked bottoms like a Cabinet minister in a Soho sauna , and made me glad to be back in the car beside the sleeping-bags . |
27 | We stopped for a while and , leaving Billy well secured outside with Pat , took our headlamps and torches and walked into the level . |
28 | We 'd have got here sooner only we stopped for a bite of something . |
29 | ‘ We stopped for a swim near Tala-Tala . |
30 | The bubbling song of whimbrel mingled with the excited yelping of breeding redshank could be heard whenever we stopped for a break . |