Example sentences of "we [vb past] for the [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 | 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 . |
| 8 | We qualified for the European championship without him , so we do n't have to take risks . ’ |
| 9 | This is a combination of the list we used for the first plan and the list used for the draft of the second plan . |
| 10 | We headed for the 4th Squadron where we had been officially invited by some of the English members . |
| 11 | But you need real people for a proper gloat so we headed for the cardboard suburb in the Strand . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ We tried for the best part of 18 months to get Dowty to agree to a friendly deal , but both the old chairman , Lord Harrowby , and the new chairman , Roy Roberts , refused . |
| 14 | We played for the British ambassador and some Irish teachers and workers who were out there . |
| 15 | We decided we were n't going to get on without flirting with a lot of trouble , so we opted for the trusty 1-iron again . |
| 16 | A major emphasis was placed on Intercession and listening to God This was invaluable as we prepared for the first section of outreach in Budapest , Hungary . |
| 17 | It seemed to fly OK , so we prepared for the 482 kilometres water crossing to Australia . |
| 18 | ‘ We opened for the first time and we 're doing extremely well , ’ said assistant manager Greg Hughes . |
| 19 | Talking of Lester Piggott he of course was the winner of the first ever Channel Four personality of the year trophy which we awarded for the first time last year . |
| 20 | ‘ The night we kissed for the first time . |
| 21 | To investigate this ability of different recombinant GGFs to be secreted , we determined for the two human cDNA clones the distribution of total expressed GGF ( Schwann cell mitogenic ) activity between cell lysate and conditioned medium after transient mammalian transfections ( Table 2 ) . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've got the tickets we ordered for the Welsh match at Twickenham next month . |
| 23 | We talked for the first time about poetry , poets and our own poems : |
| 24 | So we settled for the International Press Centre … |
| 25 | In other words , sticking to those sectors that we know and understand and which we chose for the nineties because we believe they had good growth prospects . |
| 26 | We were bunched together in the semi-final of the 1976 Olympic 1500m in Montreal and as we went for the same small gap I felt his spike again my shin . |
| 27 | If we had played for the whole 90 minutes as we did for the first hour we would have beaten Rangers . ’ |
| 28 | At least we did for the longer |
| 29 | I hope that future generations will never have to suffer the , and endure the noise that we did for the same purpose . |
| 30 | That 's all we did for the statutory undertakers . |