Example sentences of "[vb past] for the [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It would fully accord with the general principles of contract and treaty law if a mechanism existed for the parties to union to vary the terms of union from time to time by agreement .
2 The estimable Anderson spoke half-truths as his friend and fellow bag-carrier , Billy Gunn , now explained as he sat on a green caddies ' bench and waited for the call to duty .
3 We stared at the water which was pretty choppy and waited for the Indian to surface but he never did .
4 Cameron 's father began writing plays again , and managements competed for the rights to stage each new mature masterpiece .
5 In the cases of both Chesterton and Williamson it was the combination of the lingering after-effects of the war and the transposition of supposed aesthetic values to the political sphere , together with personal traumas of varying intensity , which accounted for the turn to fascism .
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