Example sentences of "we [verb] for an " in BNC.
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| 1 | We asked for an extra day , and that was fine . |
| 2 | And we asked for an extra ten days . |
| 3 | The main good grains on which we depend for an essential part of our daily diet come from plants belonging to the family of grasses and can not be readily digested until the tough outer shells are broken up and , sometimes , removed . |
| 4 | I know that they do have computer science courses at both O level and A level , do you think these will be the basis of the future courses , or are we looking for an entirely new development , something quite new and quite different , that stands as a subject in his own right ? |
| 5 | We drove for an hour . |
| 6 | The major difference between the American and British systems is that we vote for an MP , the party with the most MPs wins and its leader moves into Number Ten . |
| 7 | We brought books to Brownies which we read for an hour and we were not allowed to say a word . |
| 8 | and we either go with the word report or we look for an alternative word or words . |
| 9 | In the main we we look for an average between sixteen to twenty pages |
| 10 | We climbed for an hour-and-a-half and I can tell you that going up a mountain on skins is not as easy as it looks . |
| 11 | Remembering the close encounter near Maralal , we arranged for an armed park ranger to accompany us , so that we would also be protected in case of emergency . |
| 12 | We walked for an hour without passing a single habitation . |
| 13 | We think we should not accept ‘ I like Auntie Kate ’ as a valid communication unless we allow for an answer to the question , ‘ How does he know ? ’ or ‘ What observation justifies him in saying that ? ’ |
| 14 | As a rough and ready indication of the possible errors here , we allow for an error of 15 per cent in either direction , which may be conservative . |
| 15 | From Santiago we flew for an hour to Vigo , which has a smaller airport but is a much larger town and is in fact Spain 's largest port . |
| 16 | We flew for an hour and in that time I completed a reel of film in my camera . |
| 17 | Whilst in the circuit we called for an ambulance on the Aldis lamp for the WT/Operator who had lost three fingers on one hand whilst " tinselling " . |
| 18 | We drifted for an hour while Bob and his men replaced some leading injector pipes until the sudden welcome roar of our trusty Paxmans sent us southward again , across St. Magnus Bay and outside Papa Stour , finally leaving the straggling tentacles of land and long voes of West Shetland to reach Scalloway as darkness fell . |
| 19 | But that that we ask for an exploration of the feasibility of widening the use of homes into nursing care , very sheltered accommodation , apartment style accommodation etcetera . |
| 20 | He said : ‘ Originally we went for an American-style back-end load or exit charge which was tapered to reduce by a percentage point for each year an investment was held . |
| 21 | One day we went for an excursion with my godson George and his young parents , George clutching teddy , nearly as big as himself . |
| 22 | We went for an excursion to the Peloponnesian mainland opposite . |
| 23 | ‘ We went for an open systems solution because we wanted to build in flexibility for the future , ’ says ACCOUNTANCY 's Malcolm Cole . |
| 24 | Instead , we aim for an optimal solution , achieving the most relevant reports possible in the light of the uncertainties involved in producing them , and the available resources . |
| 25 | We aim for an in-service date in the early years of the next century . |
| 26 | As we write for an instrument we must be playing it in our imagination , with the right bowings and fingerings , feeling the sensations of different registers , expressing ourselves through the different tones and timbres , the possibilities of legato , staccato , vibrato , etc . |
| 27 | Another time when I was walking with Tony we paused for an hour at Malham to break a long day 's walk from Langcliffe to Arncliffe by Malham and Yew Cogar Scar by the old monks ' road . |
| 28 | We waited for an hour and a quarter but then it got dark . |
| 29 | That morning seemed endless as we waited for an ambulance to transport the most urgent cases to the hospital . |
| 30 | We relaxed for an hour with a cup of tea and Otley switched the magic box on to see what the world was up to . |