Example sentences of "[verb] for the [noun sg] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Always feel you are going to wait for the club to arrive and keep your head behind the shot . |
| 2 | I have since received a letter from Ribble apologising for the inconvenience caused and promising that it would not occur again . |
| 3 | His body now lay rotting under the cold grey slabs of an abbey , his strong rule was gone and , throughout the castle , nobles gathering for the council plotted and intrigued . |
| 4 | From then on he sat cowering in the corner beside his case praying for the journey to end and did not dare move , look down or even breath . |
| 5 | THE operating theatre is designed for the patient to arrive and recuperate in the special recovery room in his own bed , instead of the more familiar method of patients being transferred via hard trolleys for an uncomfortable ride to and from theatres . |
| 6 | The clear-cut hillsides have been blamed for the mud avalanches that caused almost all of the deaths . |
| 7 | The time has come for the party to choose and , in the final analysis , it has two coherent policies to choose from . |
| 8 | He need not , however , transport the goods but can wait for the trader to come and collect them . |
| 9 | Ha Ha Ha I ca n't wait for the bullshit to flow as they try to explain away this one . |
| 10 | As Goffmann points out , the end of conversational encounters carry an increased risk of creating offence — in the sense that careless or perfunctory termination may convey the misleading impression that one could n't wait for the session to end and that as far as one was concerned the whole episode was a waste of time . |
| 11 | For example , he should wait for the buyer to indicate that he can sit down or , at least , ask the buyer if he may sit down . |
| 12 | I wanted the sugar and rather than wait for the waiter to return or ask this boy to get it , I asked Harvey for the sugar . |
| 13 | Listening for the foot to halt and the steps to end there |
| 14 | She went on her way to bed without pausing for the goodnight kiss that he had forgotten . |
| 15 | Provision has to be made For the wax to escape and the metal to enter . |
| 16 | Payment will be made for the accommodation reserved whether the guest arrives or not . |
| 17 | People say they become imperceptive ; they spend hours looking for the car keys that were on the table in front of them all the time ; they become preoccupied and inattentive to what other people are saying to them ( ‘ But I told you the Smiths were coming over yesterday . |
| 18 | An UNCTAD report prepared for the conference said that savings of US$75,000 million a year could be made through more efficient trade administration , including computerized customs procedures . |
| 19 | While you 're waiting for the kettle to boil erm , get a cup from the cupboard and a tea bag from the tea jar , put tea bag in the the cup and then wait for the kettle to boil and o , once the kettle has boiled you put your hot water into the cup and le , and let the tea brew for a little while And then , after you let it brew you can either add milk to it or , do not add milk to it . |
| 20 | Now in pursuance of the premisses the said lords spirituall and temporall and commons in Parlyament assembled for the ratifying confirming and establishing the said declaration and the articles clauses matters and things therein contained by the force of a law made in due for me by authority of Parlyament doe pray that it may be declared and enacted that all and singular the rights and liberties asserted and claimed in the said declaration are the true auntient and indubitable rights and liberties of the people of this king dome and soe shall be esteemed allowed adjudged deemed and taken to be and that all and every the particulars aforesaid shall be firmly and strictly hold en and observed as they are expressed in the said declaration . |
| 21 | We had such happy family holidays in the drizzle waiting for the sun to try and come out that it seemed churlish to spoil things with science . |
| 22 | Within minutes one was torn from reading a book to being gagged and trussed up in a sack , carried down stairs by running men , waiting for the bag to slip or rip and one 's head or neck to smash against the hard stone steps . |
| 23 | All the things that you take a curious interest in when you are lying under a car after a road accident , waiting for the ambulance to arrive and thinking that you 'd far rather be anywhere else but there . |
| 24 | They were waiting for the kettle to boil when the telephone rang again and Helen picked it up . |
| 25 | Joyfully and thankfully reconciled with me , and having proved himself in a very arduous campaign , he might well have rested on his laurels in comfort and safety , waiting for the war to end or to be drafted to some new theatre of operations . |
| 26 | Senior front-benchers called for the party to reflect and rebuild , rather than offer ‘ instant wisdom ’ on the reasons it lost . |
| 27 | Not guilty , did n't do it that 's why what gorilla man did sickened me ; no blood well hardly any blood literally a drop , a drip , a fucking pixel on the screen and the only thing slicing into flesh was a needle , tiny and delicate not a chainsaw or an axe or a knife or anything , but it 's that image that idea that old devil meme , I keep dreaming about it , keep having nightmares about it , and I 'm the trapped one , I 'm the man in the leather-and-chrome chair and he 's there with his gorilla face and his squeaky baby voice , explaining to the camera that what he has in this bottle and in this syringe is sperm ; the crazy fucker 's loaded it up with jism man looks like half a fucking milk bottle of the stuff and he 's going to inject it into the little guy 's veins and he ties something round the naked upper arm of the little guy strapped to the chair and pulls it tight and waits for the vein to show while the little guy howls and screams like a child and tries to shake the chair to bits or rip it apart but he 's too well strapped in there no purchase no leverage and then the man in the gorilla mask just does it ; sinks the needle into the little guy 's skin with a bit of blood and empties the whole syringe into him . |
| 28 | Greek tradition ascribed the ‘ invention ’ of bronze-casting to two Samians , Rhoikos and Theodoros , who worked for the tyrant Polykrates as architects ( Theodoros also as gem-engraver , above p. 39 ) . |
| 29 | Plus Verbal and Tactile Rights for Men You 've got to fight for the right to fondle And Star Trekking in Rotherham , the final frontier |
| 30 | For its input resistance to equal the load resistance R L while the attenuation is Combining these last two equations shows that the values of R 1 and R 2 needed for the circuit to perform as required are |