Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] the [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suppose that the father had later authorised the creditor to sue for the balance of the debt — or required him to do so as trustee ( see Vaughan Williams L.J. ) ? |
| 2 | The family 's passive resistance continued right up to the last moment : Zen was not permitted to set foot on Miletti soil but had to wait for the Fiat in the street , beyond the imposing wrought-iron gates . |
| 3 | The pioneer of bee research Karl von Frisch recalls ( and we have observed ) instances in which the trained foragers began to anticipate subsequent moves and to wait for the feeder at the presumptive new location . |
| 4 | I shouted wildly , as we walked together out of the front door , to wait for the coach in the road . |
| 5 | The Ferryhill driver has also been instructed to wait for the arrival of the Crook bus before pulling out . |
| 6 | This was sooner than had been expected , President José Eduardo dos Santos declaring that it was not necessary to wait for the end of the war to initiate the reforms . |
| 7 | But the EPA wanted to wait for the results of the post-flood analysis in the hope that the floods would dilute the dioxin . |
| 8 | Change had to wait for the coming of the postwar years . |
| 9 | He beat fellow American and world No 5 Michael Chang 7–5 , 6–2 , but had to wait for the result of the final round robin match in his group between big-hitters Goran Ivanisevic and Richard Krajicek to see if he would get through to the semi-finals of this last ranking competition of the year . |
| 10 | And then , anyone who owed less than £200 had to wait for the start of the next law term in another four months if he wished to apply for the discharge which would come upon his delivering his whole property to the single creditor who had stayed with the process as long as that . |
| 11 | It is ironical that the Court composers should have had to wait for the establishment of the Commonwealth before their songs were published . |
| 12 | Or , ‘ The Doctor wants I to see about the moss in the tennis court . |
| 13 | I had to see as the wagons in the coals as it shifting , not falling off you see . |
| 14 | And one of the most important functions of information dynamics is precisely to link a sentence to its environment in a manner which allows the information to flow through the text in the desired manner . |
| 15 | The head of the ‘ effigy ’ is a wax portrait — Bentham 's own head was removed , desiccated , provided with glass eyes and placed under a glass dome to sit between the feet of the auto-icon ; it , too , is now on public display — a little start-eyed , yet nevertheless recognizable ( Col. 3 ) . |
| 16 | One of Mr Gould 's followers , health spokesman David Blunkett , urges Labour not to go for the unity of the graveyard . |
| 17 | According to Electronic News , Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG is in final discussions with Apple Computer Inc and the AT&T Co-Eo Inc-Matsushita Electric Industrial Co before deciding whether to go for the architecture of the Advanced RISC Machines Ltd ARM-based Newton , or the AT&T Co Hobbit-based device . |
| 18 | Preston drained his glass and decided to go for the bottle in the next interlude . |
| 19 | And yet it is important to breathe through the nose as the air taken in is then warmed and moistened before entering the lungs . |
| 20 | Showmanship was to remain as the hallmark of the movies . |
| 21 | It would be a simple matter to saw off the shafts of the clubs and embed the heads in a dummy top . |
| 22 | We must again remember to search for the constitution amongst the realities , and not confine ourselves to pretty normative structures . |
| 23 | Its strength was a nose for commerce which soon manifested itself , so that by the twelfth century , the authority of an effete aristocracy began to dwindle as the power of the merchants correspondingly grew . |
| 24 | It was statistical analysis of trends in admissions to and discharges from mental hospitals that had led central government to plan for the redundancy of the hospitals . |
| 25 | Not only will this guarantee relevant standards and practicable quality assurance , it will also help organisations to plan for the implementation of the qualification . |
| 26 | A new American–based organisation the American Friends of the Warburg Institute has been set up to raise funds that will allow research to continue through the enhancement of the collections ( for instance by the purchase of scholarly databases ) and the promotion of its function as a international research centre . |
| 27 | The group says they 'consider it inappropriate and ill advised to carry through the prposals for the restructuring of the Army in their entirety , and that they recommend the Government cancel all amalgamations or disbandments ’ |
| 28 | What you have to do in this case is to strip off the paint from the binding edge , then plane off a little wood before repainting — including the vulnerable top and bottom edges of the window . |
| 29 | Pushing himself with indolent grace away from the door , Rourke came into the room and began to rummage about the shelves beneath the counter . |
| 30 | The exhibitions of work by James Welling at Samia Saouma and engravings by Cy Twombly at Vidal-Saint-Phalle are scheduled to continue for the whole of the month . |