Example sentences of "we [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We rode for five hours in the rain . |
| 2 | Together with Germany , we fought for tough criteria . |
| 3 | We fought for seven days and |
| 4 | Only the Good Christ knows why we met for that . |
| 5 | On average , we met for three hours every ten days , constantly revising , exchanging and criticising so that in the end we had both had a hand in everything . |
| 6 | Are you , are we allowing for this or |
| 7 | With small token charges of explosives in our pockets we made for distant roads , railways and bridges , sinking up to our knees in bogs and wading through the icy waters of fast-running burns . |
| 8 | We speak of the ‘ sacrifices ’ we make for one another — that notion rings many bells . |
| 9 | If you wish to make a reservation for 10 or more people , contact your travel agent , and do n't forget the special discounts we make for most groups — see page 11 . |
| 10 | Every year we buy his work for more than the year before and every year we sell for more than the year before 1991 being no exception . |
| 11 | He placed the motto ‘ We sell for less ’ above the entrance to each store and banned wholesalers , passing on the savings to his customers . |
| 12 | Now for all those reasons madame speaker , this these orders er er today are inadequate , too little , too late , we ca n't vote against them , much as the the member who preceded me seemed inclined to vote against them and I wish that he had the g er the guts of 'is cu the courage of his convictions er he should vote against them , er we on this side are far more responsible er than that because to vote against them er might be an indication that we 're as much in frau in favour of fraud as members on the other side of the house , er we 're not in favour of fraud , we welcome any progress to detection of fraud , even progress that we asked for five eight years ago when the relevant legislation was passed . |
| 13 | ‘ We asked for ordinary Russians , but the embassy must have misunderstood and sent us some of the country 's creme de la creme . |
| 14 | In nineteen ninety , ninety one we asked for six point four seven four million in poll tax . |
| 15 | At the outset we asked for more help from the congregation . |
| 16 | So we asked for twenty thousand pound upfront . |
| 17 | We argued for those seven years on the pitch , at half-time , and at the end of the game . |
| 18 | We planned to go full belt , we planned for 1989 to be either win or retire . |
| 19 | You 've got it later on in the agenda , Arthur , can we wait for that one ? |
| 20 | ‘ The substantial improvement we reported for 1992 has continued in the first three months of 1993 following a further sharp reduction in our worldwide underwriting deficit . |
| 21 | They have the same four basic options we described for general ownership policy : state ownership ; specific support for or discrimination against locals or foreigners ; or neutrality . |
| 22 | ‘ It is time we moved for concerted action to liberate the press from these laws . ’ |
| 23 | Backed by thorough research , we press for new laws and policies to create a healthier , richer future . |
| 24 | Backed by thorough research , we press for new laws and policies to create a healthier , richer future . |
| 25 | A parallel-group study with 24 children given half the dose of evening primrose oil that we used for 4 weeks , demonstrated a significant difference between active and placebo groups , a finding that we can not explain . |
| 26 | The sort of criteria which we used for paradigmatic delimitation are of no help here . |
| 27 | I would imagine the plaster wall have to be replaced cos there 's a lot of work that needs to be done on t we 've already had to deal with the plastering once , in fact we would n't have noticed cos we had n't seen it before but what happened is that the the frame of the hall particularly shrank so that we had gaps in between where the plastering was and where the wood was and we had to have a couple of men that we used for this , erm come in with lime plaster and fill in all the cracks for a week or two . |
| 28 | We apologise for this oversight . |
| 29 | A Cleveland Police spokeswoman said : ‘ We apologise for this lady 's distress . |
| 30 | We apologise for both errors . |