Example sentences of "we [verb] [adv] for " in BNC.

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1 We clung together for warmth and vowed to love one another more than anyone else for all time .
2 In true pilgrim tradition we prayed and did penance together and we also took our recreation together and we also took our recreation together and so on Wednesday evening we met together for a very happy celebration .
3 He relaxed with a happy grunt , and we lay peacefully for a bit longer .
4 We suffer justly for our Crimes ;
5 ‘ Now , we advertise repeatedly for any POWs who are in trouble , and we are only too pleased to help them .
6 Assume again a simple aggregate demand curve of the form given in equation ( 5.31 ) , which we repeat here for convenience :
7 We make up for this , however , by an almost psychopathic competitiveness .
8 We intend tomorrow for our wedding day , and Mr. Williams shall officiate .
9 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 .
10 ‘ Why do n't we make up for lost time , then , Luke ?
11 We found a neat village south of Peterlee called Elwick , complete with tree-decked , green , Tabatha Twitchet shop and two super pubs , where we lived uneasily for three years .
12 Yeah , and we lived there for a long time did n't you , you stayed in that house for a long , long time
13 We lived there for another four years , until it became too difficult for me to manage the stairs .
14 Shortly afterwards we moved to , and we lived there for many years .
15 it was like Jersey , we lived there for twenty , twenty years did n't we ?
16 We lived together for a while . ’
17 They 're all gon na be pissed on Friday cos we got in for nothing !
18 Yeah we got there for ten o'clock and we had to wait till they 'd finished all the out-patients before they 'd let the in-patients .
19 We got there for about ten to six .
20 We got there for about half past twelve in the afternoon .
21 We got there for four .
22 We sit around for a bit , chatting .
23 They compose themselves as the laibon appears and suggests we sit down for tea .
24 We sit there for half an hour perhaps and log one car , a few walkers , several cows , perhaps a few ghosts .
25 We sit there for nearly an hour , staring into the house-sized holes , mesmerized by the relentless sound and fury .
26 We sit there for some time but I keep glancing up , and gradually become terrified that the man is somehow not dead or has become a zombie and is climbing back up the shaft towards us , to push the grating up and put his already rotting hands down and grab us both by the hair .
27 ‘ May we stay here for a little , until we find a place of our own ? ’
28 I got on before I could change my mind and we bounced around for a few minutes .
29 Roping up , we moved together for 200 to 300 feet to the foot of the first big ice pitch in the corner system .
30 We slip out for five minutes and the lot will be sold before we get back . ’
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