Example sentences of "[subord] they [verb] for [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a short discussion on the merits of the duck , he decided to join her ; and while they waited for the first course to arrive , he regaled her with a colourful account of that afternoon 's meeting in the history department to sort out the timetable . |
| 2 | The minutes dragged while they listened for the first hum of the approaching helicopter . |
| 3 | In the final game Waikato took the honours 28–24 , leafing Rugby Canada to wonder just how long it would be before they won for the first time on New Zealand soil . |
| 4 | How many times have you been walking with someone who does that all the time , regardless of climatic considerations , and wanted to deliver a rabbit punch to the back of their neck when they stop for the tenth time that day and begin the ponderous unclipping of their rucksack ? |
| 5 | The healthy stayed away , or hovered sceptically at the back of the crowd , talking as they waited for the first miracle . |
| 6 | Scientists working on the jet fusion project at Culham in south Oxfordshire have been protesting today in a bid to influence leading figures in the project as they met for the second day of their full Council Meeting . |
| 7 | Spurs are missing six first-teamers , including Anderton , Paul Allen and Gordon Durie , as they bid for a fifth successive clean sheet against Manchester City at Maine Road today . |
| 8 | As they headed for the first aircraft they were fired on by a sentry . |
| 9 | It 's simply not good enough for them to say , as they have for the last forty five years , elect us , we 'll change everything and then things will be alright . |
| 10 | When in Washington both Houses , in an extraordinary mark of respect , asked him to give the opening prayer as they assembled for the fifty-fifth Congress . ) |
| 11 | His mind recalled the familiar ambience of his trade ; men moving like black shadows behind the glare of the arc-lights the police cars tidily parked ; the flap of the screens , desultory voices conferring as they watched for the first lights of his approaching car . |