Example sentences of "we [verb] for [art] " 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 | On Wednesday 13 February , we met for the second time with pensions as the agenda item . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | We applied for a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund on the basis that its support alone could save the church . |
| 9 | I decided to make a development of a circular pedestal table that we made for a client last year . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | Before she reached the precincts of Iona she made the round of the Sound of Mull , called at Tobermory , where she was unnecessarily detained by some shippers not having a lot of sheep waiting ; she sailed up Loch Sunart , got on board part of a flock of sheep at Salen Pier , landed them at Croag in Mull ; and now we made for the Isle of Coll , — the ‘ Sandy Coll ’ Sir Walter speaks of . |
| 12 | We made for the top front of the vehicle , as this provided the best all-round view . |
| 13 | The colonel gave me a friendly pat on the shoulder , and we made for the outside world again . |
| 14 | I clapped Jamie on the shoulder a couple of times and we made for the street . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | And we know that he was left this red chest of Flanders so we sought for a Flanders chest , that 's a chest probably actually made in North Germany but imported through Flanders and we found a Yorkshire example in a place called near Ripon . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | We asked for a lament in verse or a prose epitaph for Punch |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | When we asked for a script from that side from the beginning , it did n't come . |
| 24 | Yes , on page three , one twenty , chair , we asked for a date , the date of that conference is the thirteenth and fourteenth of December . |
| 25 | And er she wanted er you know she has visions of us filling the streets of from to with banners waving and the we asked for no banners in the first rally we had back in October because we did n't want it to be seen as some thing that had you know big sort of take over and everybody you know the Communist Party and the language people and er all the different factions being able to wave their banners you know , We support the Blaenau quarry men . |
| 26 | The bemused Parisians did n't know what the fuck we were on about when we asked for the ‘ Adidas Centre ’ in several differing French accents . |
| 27 | The reason we asked for the figures is to get a ball park idea . |
| 28 | all that 's been disclosed is one as far as I know , erm your Lordship can see that I at some stage need to have a look at them , er before I complete in any way so I can cross examine Mr er my Lord may I just say this , on the seventeenth of November , that 's two days ago , we asked for the documents of the necessary twelve M P's two days ago |
| 29 | We asked for an extra day , and that was fine . |
| 30 | And we asked for an extra ten days . |