Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] for the [noun sg] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Told me to wait for the horse to lift its tail . ’ |
| 2 | When both mares began aiding and abetting one another to increase the confusion and alarm , somewhere high over the Gulf I made for the cabin to solicit help . |
| 3 | Indication can be quivertip or butt indicator and generally I wait for the reel to revolve slowly so I know it is not a line bite . |
| 4 | I wait for the door to open , and for the expression on the old dragon 's face . |
| 5 | I take advantage of the silence as I wait for the punch-line to review the facts and fictions of the short story of Dudley Moore 's life . |
| 6 | Department managers , new checkouts , do all the bits and pieces on , and wanted me to do , while I wait for the shift to come in , and they start at seven . |
| 7 | I might eat a bread roll without the butter while I wait for the meal to arrive , and slimline or diet drinks act as a wonderful filler . |
| 8 | Okay well we 're waiting as far as I know for the money to come |
| 9 | So they are probably very useful erm toys , educational toys , to have in the home , but I think for the child to get the maximum from them they do he often does require an adult with him . |
| 10 | So they are probably very useful erm toys , educational toys , to have in the home , but I think for the child to get the maximum from them they do he often does require an adult with him . |
| 11 | The other complaint we receive is ‘ I waited for the issue to come out and my ad was n't in it . |
| 12 | After replacing the 'phone I waited for the tingling to stop then looked at my watch . |
| 13 | Red in the face and thoroughly hot and uncomfortable , I waited for the laughter to subside . |
| 14 | Amusing myself with such trivial thoughts , I waited for the rain to give up . |
| 15 | I waited for the crowd to thin out , then went to have a closer look . |
| 16 | I waited for the ambulance to arrive . |
| 17 | Then I waited for the evening to come , but the hours passed very slowly . |
| 18 | How I longed for the ruler to point to me ! |
| 19 | ’ I fight for the King to beat those rebels and force them back from whence they came . ’ |
| 20 | I wish for the committal to go along please sir ? |
| 21 | Moderation in behaviour , which allows for the ability to interact tranquilly , is achieved by attaining mastery over one 's ‘ life of senses ’ and one 's ‘ life of thoughts ’ ( Overing 1985 ) . |
| 22 | He had to give himself time for the thought to reach him . |
| 23 | They like a recent report by the Australian Manufacturing Council , which calls for the government to support industry and promote exports . |
| 24 | These interventions , associated with the Keynesian revolution in economic thinking which called for the state to become involved in maintaining the level of aggregate demand in the economy through the use of budgetry policies , have been seen not as a triumph of democratic struggle but as a further example of the use of the state as an instrument of the interests of the ruling class . |
| 25 | There is nothing in the Children Act 1989 which provides for the court to tack any direction on to a care order and I have to say that , in my judgment , the addition of a direction of any sort to a care order is a fetter on the local authority plans , authority and responsibility . |
| 26 | Poulantzas ' own position was to argue for the development of a Marxist , structuralist account which provides for the state to have only a relative autonomy and never a true autonomy . |
| 27 | It should be remembered that any contract for sale which provides for the purchaser to obtain vacant possession on completion now implies a provision that the vendor will procure before completion the cancellation of a registered Class F Land Charge ( Matrimonial Homes Act 1983 , s4(1) ) . |
| 28 | Was each of them waiting for the other to make the next move ? |
| 29 | Bank Assistants , ask not what the IBOA can do for you but what can you do for the IBOA to get justice for your claim . |
| 30 | I chat with her while she waits for the tub to fill . |