Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presumably he had in mind — nothing else would have been reconcilable with his profession of non-violence — not so much killing as bravely standing up to be killed , but the position was one he felt constrained to apologize for later . |
| 2 | Oh it 's so quick to go between now is n't it ? |
| 3 | I reckon he 'll probably come good in time , but we ca n't afford to leave it too long to wait for both him and Deano to start coming up with the goods . |
| 4 | Zimbabwe skipper Dave Walters and Jenkins then swopped penalties , but having scored 20 points in 15 minutes , Wales went to sleep and had to wait for outside half Adrian Davies to drop a goal with virtually the last kick of the half for their next score . |
| 5 | ‘ We 've had to wait for today before we could fix anything . ’ |
| 6 | PREVIOUS whisky industry wisdom had it that Whyte & Mackay , largest minority shareholder of Invergordon Distillers since it made its hostile bid , was going to wait for yesterday 's results and , if they were sufficiently poor to drive down the share price , would then pounce for the remaining 8.8 per cent of shares to give it control . |
| 7 | And Capriati admitted she is not prepared to wait for ever to achieve her ambition to be world No 1 . |
| 8 | Larger families around us were being rehoused at a steady rate , but we were doomed to wait for ever . |
| 9 | Well I had to , I had to wait for about eight months or was it s six months to get one of my lights fixed but for er other things they were quite quick actually . |
| 10 | I had to wait for about ten minutes . |
| 11 | We may have to wait for much more advanced technology before we can do that . |
| 12 | Not that they can afford to wait for long . |
| 13 | He had to wait for more congenial work until 1893 , when Mrs Rylands appointed him her librarian . |
| 14 | In the 1930's , at a time when many potteries closed down to wait for more favourable conditions to return , the fifth Josiah Wedgwood decided to build a new factory . |
| 15 | It was unacceptable , he said , that patients should have to wait for more than two years for their promised treatments . |
| 16 | No , I think that we had a fairly clear idea , certainly on the pension fund , we 've not obviously got accurate numbers , a clear idea of the broad er , shape of , of the problems and erm , that allowed us , without having to wait for very accurate figures , to draw the conclusions about the scale of the problem , the amount of investment we 'd like to , we need to make and thus erm , whether or not it was of interest to pursue . |
| 17 | By 1897 he had gone , the mill coming into the hands of John Wyman , who was to remain for more than thirty years . |
| 18 | No all , all that , all that was going to be done was to see about as far as I 'm aware , the feasibility of get getting one of the Education Officers and one of the |
| 19 | Still searching for perfection , she has no plans to retire for quite a while yet , when will she quit ? |
| 20 | Her sharply hit volleys punctuated a lot of points , while her court coverage forced Seles to go for even sharper angles . |
| 21 | ‘ We want to win for as long as we can because it would be a long way to go for just one game . |
| 22 | Well , we 're getting them to go for a hundred , which sounds a lot , but the ground 's quite variable so , you know , some of it is really good planting land and some of it is n't , so , you know , it 'll be up to the teams to go for as many as they can . |
| 23 | My tip is to go for really good quality ski pants in black with braces and team that with a jacket that suits your style . |
| 24 | ‘ When I compared notes with managers in places like Glasgow and Manchester , I found that women there seemed to go for more restrained , less glitzy clothes . |
| 25 | It expects entry-level boxes built with the PICA chip set and the Acer reference design to go for under $3,500 yet offer a fivefold performance leap over 66MHz Intel 80486DX2 machines . |
| 26 | It expects entry-level boxes built with the ‘ PICA ’ chip and the Acer reference design to go for under $3,500 yet offer a five time performance leap over 66MHz Intel 486DX2 machines . |
| 27 | Used to go for sometimes two or three weeks , sometimes if it was a maternity a month , but I used to enjoy it . |
| 28 | My perfect house , the one I am condemned to search for just as the womaniser in 10 is condemned to search for his impossible mate , could only have existed in some fiction I had read — or in a past life . |
| 29 | According to Chomsky , we are genetically pre-programmed to search for just this sort of structure underlying the sentences that we hear as infants . |
| 30 | The latter pointed out that , while there was a general process of restructuring , the way it worked out in practice was different from case to case and that therefore it was pointless to search for highly regular patterns . |