Example sentences of "we [verb] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | We make up for this , however , by an almost psychopathic competitiveness . |
| 2 | After we got over the shock we asked around for other quotes and came up with an initial estimate of £1,000 plus parts , subject to what is found when the engine is taken out , from John Cutler Marine Engineers who were recommended by Sigma Yachts . |
| 3 | ‘ Why do n't we make up for lost time , then , Luke ? |
| 4 | They 're all gon na be pissed on Friday cos we got in for nothing ! |
| 5 | We sit around for a bit , chatting . |
| 6 | They compose themselves as the laibon appears and suggests we sit down for tea . |
| 7 | I got on before I could change my mind and we bounced around for a few minutes . |
| 8 | We slip out for five minutes and the lot will be sold before we get back . ’ |
| 9 | We have power over our parents in that we cry out for our needs to be met , and our parents may be anxious and confused about how to do this . |
| 10 | We headed off for the north-east facing slopes of La Masse , hoping to find the best snow . |
| 11 | We lined up for the final with the usual American din coming from the stands . |
| 12 | An Italian , Gionesca , was absent from parade one morning as we lined up for inspection by the Sergeant-Major ; Corporal Herve , a scarred Frenchman who had taken over from Vigno as duty NCO , went upstairs to find him . |
| 13 | ‘ Embarking on a musical journey , we head off for say , a dinosaur forest . |
| 14 | The driver 's home was en route so we stopped off for mint tea there . |
| 15 | But we stopped off for half an hour as well . |
| 16 | We roped up for one awkward pitch before reaching the summit , which was now cloaked in thick mist , the weather deteriorating rapidly . |
| 17 | We sailed on for another two weeks . |
| 18 | At Myitkyina we camped out for the night in a mission schoolroom and early next morning managed to get a lift out to the airstrip two miles away . |
| 19 | But erm I do n't think that the town show perhaps I was I 'm prejudiced to the fact that , that we 'll be losing money rather than making it but it was n't anything like we put on for entertainment ! |
| 20 | I do n't know how much pressure we put on for the police to get off their butts and do something . |
| 21 | Conservative in , three times that for which we put on for and let me remind you again that out of that seventeen pounds , you put eleven on , not us , you put it on . |
| 22 | Do you think it would come i You know that project that that erm project bid that we put in for . |
| 23 | The bid that we put in for erm looking at I mean would n't it would n't it come into that to a certain extent . |
| 24 | Within a community , we seek out for our companions , those whose thinking is similar to our own . |
| 25 | Like the Friday we break up for half term . |
| 26 | So we came about for the last time , since we were now south of the entrance , and motorsailed north , a little further off , to give the rock a good clearance . |
| 27 | He waited for me every year — we came back for about six years , until I was ready to be sent to finishing school . |
| 28 | We trudged around for an hour or so , unable to face the thought of lunch , and found another small hotel near Chamartin ( we were going back by train the next day by the last evening train ) . |
| 29 | And so , for 500 dense pages , we hang on for grim death as Hughes ' locomotive intelligence hurtles down the track he has set himself . |
| 30 | Because women 's work is never done , and underpaid , or unpaid , or boring or repetitious and we 're the first to get the sack , and what we look like is more important than what we do , and if we get raped it 's our fault , and if we get bashed we must have provoked it , if we raise our voices we 're nagging bitches , and if we enjoy sex we 're nymphs and if we do n't we 're frigid , and if we love women it 's because we ca n't get a real man , and if we ask our doctor too many questions we 're neurotic and if we expect the community to care for our children we 're selfish , and if we stand up for our rights we 're aggressive and unfeminine , and if we do n't we 're typical weak females , and if we want to get married we 're out to trap a man , and if we do n't we 're unnatural , and because we ca n't get adequate safe contraceptives , but men can walk on the moon , and we ca n't cope or do n't want a pregnancy we 're made to feel guilty about abortion , and for lots and lots of other reasons we 're all part of the Women 's Liberation Movement . |