Example sentences of "[to-vb] for [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She followed him up the room , repeating her sympathy and when that did not hold his attention , she began to apologize for her lateness in coming to speak to him about the tragedy . |
| 2 | People want to be able to borrow for their homes or businesses in a currency where the interest rate is not exorbitant . |
| 3 | 5.5 Title to the goods comprised in each consignment shall not pass to the Purchaser until the Purchaser has paid their price to the Seller , but , even though title has not passed , the Seller shall be entitled to sue for their price once its payment has become due . |
| 4 | It is unlikely , but some creditors may yet have to sue for their money . |
| 5 | And she knew herself to look better , clad in what passed for finery these days , than she did in the house where with so much work to do she had not a moment to spare for her appearance . |
| 6 | The laity , therefore , became reluctant to invest in their local churches , while an impoverished ecclesiastical establishment had few resources to spare for its buildings . |
| 7 | I never had enough time to spare for my wife , let alone other women — even if I 'd been so inclined , which I was not . ’ |
| 8 | Even if other painters had to wait for their money , Zbo tried desperately hard to make sure that Modi did not go without . |
| 9 | At home , where an admiral 's powers were much more restricted , and even the most favoured officers could expect to have to wait for their promotion until the end of the admiral 's period of command , when it was customary to make him the compliment of a few promotions on striking his flag , it was still possible to introduce new entrants to a seagoing life . |
| 10 | They demand more resources for the school in their areas : they complain vociferously if they have to wait for their operations ; they demand that the state intervene to subsidise the price of the rail tickets from their commuter homes to their work . |
| 11 | There was a row of five chairs where people sat to wait for their turn . |
| 12 | They were closely followed by the children who settled down to wait for their treasure trove . |
| 13 | Accepting shareholders will have to wait for their cash for that period . |
| 14 | TWO Liverpool cousins who have become the first prison visitors awarded damages after a search ordeal will have to wait for their cash , following a Home Office decision to appeal against the award . |
| 15 | They usually had to wait for their father to come home to decipher Davide 's news aloud to them . ) |
| 16 | To wait for their enemy , the ordinary people of Famagusta had made their way to the heart of the city , where the Cathedral soared like a vast triangled reliquary , flanked by princely buildings and faced , across the piazza , by the handsome , doorless shell of the Palace . |
| 17 | ‘ We now have to wait for their report . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ We now have to wait for their report . ’ |
| 19 | Sir Leon said there was no need for the United Kingdom to wait for its inflation rate to reach the European average before joining the exchange rate mechanism , nor to hold back until the further removal of capital and exchange controls next summer . |
| 20 | But until manufacturers and club professionals come to realise that a significant number play the game left-handed , the world of golf will just have to wait for its Gower , Seles , McEnroe and White . |
| 21 | Real boulevard creation , making what is now the centre of West Berlin , around Kurfürstendamm , had to wait for its beginnings in the 1920s and its maturity under Allied rule in the 1960s . |
| 22 | It was sent to the lost-luggage office to wait for its owner . |
| 23 | Pepita set down among the crates to wait for her friend and the rum to reach her . |
| 24 | They would have married sooner but had to wait for her divorce ; Pamela Chrimes told me that it took some time to obtain the evidence of adultery which was then necessary . |
| 25 | She got herself seated at a table for four , ordered a glass of pastis , the local drink , and settled back to wait for her friends . |
| 26 | His kiss was leisurely as if they had all the time in the world to explore each other , and he could afford to wait for her response , confident in his own powers of arousing it . |
| 27 | to wait for her midwifery to come through and then er they 've closed that |
| 28 | Equally , Penny remains on one level as a deluded fantasist who believes , very like an Iranian woman , that a wife 's duty is to wait for her husband 's return from the wars . |
| 29 | It sounded like a question , but he had never intended to wait for her answer . |
| 30 | Then , without bothering to wait for her answer , he had swung round again and was heading imperiously for the group of gold-brocade-covered armchairs that stood in the curve of the huge bay window , overlooking the sun-burnished waters of Loch Lomond . |