Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [vb infin] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he could not sit patiently and wait for the next train , in an hour 's time . |
| 2 | Another American firm , McDonnell Douglas , has a smaller product range , and by the mid-1980s was wondering whether to get out of the industry entirely rather than compete in the next generation of civil airliners . |
| 3 | Rather than wait for the 28th CPSU congress due in July , as had been expected [ see pp. 37234-35 ] , a plenum of the CPSU central committee had given the party 's endorsement to the changes on March 11 . |
| 4 | Taylor wishes that in Sweden he had substituted the frustrated Gary Lineker with the pace of Tony Daley in the second match against France , rather than wait for the third and final game against Sweden to bring the curtain down on his captain 's international career . |
| 5 | Maybe send them out rather than wait till the next meeting , aha |
| 6 | Eventually orders came through confirming the worst : the Austrian cuirassiers were to stay there and fight to the last man . |