Example sentences of "[vb infin] for the [adj] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , I remember warning her , half in joke , half in earnest , that I could not answer for the new Government lasting more than six weeks . |
| 2 | It stops INTERRUPTIONS If you take turns in listening to each other you will wait for the other person to finish before you come in . |
| 3 | But , for her part , Shiona could barely wait for the iniquitous ordeal to come to an end . |
| 4 | She 's worried any of them could be killed … and for now she can only wait for the missing cat to return |
| 5 | In daytime sleep , such an effect is not present and night-workers can vouch for the broken sleep produced by the more rapid filling of the bladder after lying down during the daytime . |
| 6 | After all Leeds City Council did nt pay for the new stand did they . |
| 7 | If you are a person of fastidious intellectual taste you will not much care for the comic-strip account given in the preceding paragraph . |
| 8 | If the video is to end with music though , you should arrange for the last note to come at the end of the last shot . |
| 9 | And then he would arrange for the grave digger to dig the grave . |
| 10 | We 'll ask for the General Secretary to move the C E C special report , that will be seconded by Robert , member of the Central Executive Council . |
| 11 | There must have been a veritable orchard flourishing in her wake , which could account for the sudden urge to build an orangery among the nobbery . |
| 12 | Care must be taken in interpreting Fig. 3 b because the CTD stations at the eastern end were not worked in the same location ( Fig. 1 ) , and some effect from the different topography might account for the eddy-like structure seen between 15–28°W . |
| 13 | It would appear unlikely that a difference of two water molecules could account for the large destabilisation observed and it is therefore probable that minor groove hydration is not the singularly most important destabilising effect the sequence currently under investigation . |