Example sentences of "we [verb] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | We ate heartily every night , we could afford croissants at breakfast , and we stopped scrounging for cigarettes . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | For my part , I told her that I was sure Aisha had a lover and we began searching for proof . |
| 4 | I think it 's time we began fending for ourselves . |
| 5 | Yeah the the the amount of phone calls we get asking for P C , for P C , for P C , for P C , er for P C is quite incredible . |
| 6 | We started looking for the hole in the long summer holidays . |
| 7 | And it was n't until we started analysing for zinc that we realized what the problem was . |
| 8 | Mrs Sheblee said : ‘ We kept ringing for explanations but they refused to discuss it other than to say it would cost another £1,000 . |
| 9 | ‘ He outstrips the categories we keep invoking for him , such as ‘ doyen of the Ulster poets ’ or ‘ conscience of the planter tradition ’ . |
| 10 | We stay kissing for a bit . |
| 11 | Later on when we had returned to the daylight offensive with the 8th Air Force , escorted by hundreds of fighters , could we go searching for oil . |
| 12 | We went looking for like-minds and found aliens . |
| 13 | We went looking for the river . |
| 14 | And , and I 'm against any Trust status which they tend to , to go because I believe that the beginning of our campaign that because was talking last year about Trust status it did alienate a lot of people against and said , why should we bother fighting for a hospital what would go Trust anyway . |
| 15 | so we start paying for the mortgage when the contracts are exchanged ? |
| 16 | Nine months or a year 's time we may have a different animal working in that office and it may well be some person who has who does some J L O work to supplement John and does some project work , now er Jackie has indicated she 'd love to fill that role , and we all know what project she 'd want to be doing it , but er if we do put somebody in that role they will be project officer as well and on the wall will be a year planner and it 'll have things like crucial crew gala day and all these major major things and that particular officer will work quite closely with the new Pat and they 'll be able to take some of the weight off our shoulders so when we start planning for something like crucial crew you can delegate some of the work to the project officer and perhaps the other sergeant Now I know things do n't always work out quite that straightforwardly but you know the last year has been a bastard of a year for us in terms of sickness , four S L O's have been on long-term sick we 've lost Pat for all that time Jed was off for quite a while |
| 17 | Oh no he said , I said because they got a funeral on , he said that 's what we 've coming for , we 're coming to pick granddad up . |
| 18 | We continued talking for well over an hour , duly keeping the next appointment waiting . |
| 19 | We continued climbing for a short while and were soon at the highest point of our walk . |
| 20 | We stood listening for its soft , rippling warble , and were soon rewarded . |
| 21 | Cos I , I were asking if they wanted a baked tatie and that and we stood waiting for them and you noticed on sack |
| 22 | I think we need soundproofing for these meetings . |
| 23 | We sat chatting for a few minutes after finishing our meal . |
| 24 | We sat thinking for about five minutes , then Pete had an idea . |
| 25 | We sat shaking for some minutes before regaining sufficient composure to drive on . |
| 26 | We sat talking for about an hour while Anna tearfully related how she had recently been ‘ ditched ’ by her lover ( a young man of 23 ) for a girl of 18 . |
| 27 | As we sat waiting for the last half-hour to grind away , the young Sheikh lifted the phone and telephoned his grandmother — his mother 's mother , not Sheikha Grandmother , who was still on her visit to her daughter . |
| 28 | I says oh I du n no , I said oh Sharon 'll fetch dad over , so we sat waiting for her and then they come |
| 29 | " Where are we going and how long will it be before some of us stop running for good and all ? " |
| 30 | 3.5 Let us start looking for answers to our questions by considering certain observations that have been made about the characteristics of postnominal attributives . |