Example sentences of "we [verb] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 31 | We 'd saved for it , taken enormous care in choosing the location , even-God spare us in our mortal error-looked forward to the holiday . |
| 32 | But when it when a bill came up and it would take away the money that we 'd saved for Kelly 's new school uniform , so it always seemed to come in a rush and there was always something needed like you know . |
| 33 | We 'd been prepared to buy houses with flaws invisible to the naked eye , but now we 'd fallen for one with all its flaws only too obviously visible . |
| 34 | Just as the record was going to be released , Dave came round and told us he 'd got another manager for us and it turned out to be Ralph Horton who we 'd auditioned for at The Roebuck Pub in Tottenham Court Road . |
| 35 | He 'd come half past seven to eight to pay us as we came to work , to hand us the money we 'd earnt for the last week , always keeping about three days in hand . |
| 36 | But the intricacies , I know more about Europe , eventually , and other countries , due to not being having a a briefing by a Headmaster for half an hour of something The group of us , he had eight to ten of us in the room trying to prime us on what we 'd missed for a year . |
| 37 | I know it 's early days yet , but White has n't made the kind of impact we 'd hoped for . |
| 38 | Eight weeks later Dad went home to Hull , took one look at the nice convalescent home we 'd booked for him and said , ‘ I 'm buggered if I 'm staying in here . |
| 39 | ‘ We 'd finished for the day , so I tied the rudder and then came up forward . ’ |
| 40 | Ed King was busily erecting the cage we 'd had in Covent Garden ; it was proving to be worth every penny of the £250 we 'd paid for it . |
| 41 | The goons have discovered part of an old dismantled ladder which we 'd used for earlier trials and we think it may put them onto something . ’ |
| 42 | She reminded me that I was a married man — forbade me to approach her or speak to her again in that way , but at the same time I knew I had made her think about the old days — the attraction we 'd had for each other which she could not deny . |
| 43 | Well they I I tell you this they they we 'd worked for him for er good many years and there was no talk of any cuts in wages , we had this wages all through the through these years , and everybody was happy with it . |
| 44 | I try to think of the three things we 'd identified for the for the fifteenth of September . |
| 45 | We were told not to do this , told not to come here , told to sledge and throw snowballs and make snowmen all we wanted , but not even to come near the loch and the river , in case we fell through the ice ; and yet Andy came here after we 'd sledged for a while on the slope near the farm , walked down here through the woods despite my protests , and then when we got here to the river bank I said well , as long as we only looked , but then Andy just whooped and jumped down onto the boulder-lumped white slope of shore and sprinted out across the pure flat snow towards the far bank . |
| 46 | So we all got very excited because it was the first money we 'd spent for a long time . |
| 47 | We can not hope to compete with the big stores for plain , cheap knitwear — they can buy their yarn at much better prices than we can and when we add costing for our time we price ourselves out of the market . |
| 48 | However , the basic grammatical distinctions here are the categories of first , second and third person , If we were producing a Componential analysis ( for which see Lyons , 1968 : 470-81 ) of Pronominal systems , the features that we seem to need for the known systems would crucially include : for first person , speaker inclusion ( + 5 ) ; for second person , addressee inclusion ( + A ) ; and for third Person , speaker and addressee exclusion ( - S , A ) ( see Burling , 1970 : 14-17 ; Ingram , 1978 ) . |
| 49 | ‘ How far have we got to swim for this competition ? ’ |
| 50 | ‘ Ai n't we going to wait for him ? ’ |
| 51 | We going to wait for them . ’ |
| 52 | Were we going to go for impersonal macro-solutions , or were we going to realise that the people were looking for us as their leaders to provide an answer to their difficulties ? |
| 53 | Are we going to go for fourteen lane high way , or motorway , on the M twenty five , cos if you do , all the roads that lead from it are going to have to be fourteen lane . |
| 54 | ‘ What are we going to do for a horse for you ? ’ |
| 55 | For my part , I told her that I was sure Aisha had a lover and we began searching for proof . |
| 56 | I think it 's time we began fending for ourselves . |
| 57 | ‘ We began to work for this journey two years ago . |
| 58 | From the time of the Anschluss in March 1938 , until the outbreak of war in September 1939 , hopes of peace gradually faded and we began to prepare for the grim reality . |
| 59 | A.J. Wickens , K.C. and other prominent citizens made up the Board of Directors and we began to look for commercial advertisers . |
| 60 | The next day we began to look for work . |