Example sentences of "[to-vb] for [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Absolutely , does it make sense for , for husband and wife over there to wait for the second one to have a heart attack , or the second one to have a cancer before it pays out , |
| 2 | But Greenford was in Middlesex and many was the night I spent in the pissing rain having walked to Acton Town station to wait for the first train home in the morning . |
| 3 | Sam , without any hesitation had agreed knowing that to wait for the first available fireman would delay his train 's departure . |
| 4 | She was heavily pregnant but she was questioned and made to wait for the next twelve hours without food or water . |
| 5 | I shall just have to wait for the next Guinness Book of Records for the answer . |
| 6 | Weather conditions precluded this , so he had to wait for the next scheduled plane from Wick to Kirkwall . |
| 7 | I watched the doors close and then ran upstairs to the empty ticket hall to wait for the next train . |
| 8 | Furious , she sat down to wait for the next vehicle . |
| 9 | But when the money runs out and they ca n't afford to pay for any more care patients have to wait for the next financial year . |
| 10 | However , the jokes are a bit stale for real belly laughs , so if you 've seen him before it 's probably better to wait for the next batch . |
| 11 | And now we are to wait for the next ethnic war to intervene to salve our pitifully insensitive consciences and our failure to shape and conduct an effective policy : a neat one , no complications , allowing intervention with few , possibly no , losses . |
| 12 | Putting the thoughts out of his head , he settled back to wait for the next people who could keep the Americans busy . |
| 13 | We 'd have to wait for the next one then . |
| 14 | So we had to wait for the next bus , which was six o'clock . |
| 15 | Tomorrow was too far distanced for his mind to wait for the last piece of evidence — a mind so ceaselessly tossing , as it had been ever since Lewis — wonderful Lewis ! — had mentioned that seemingly irrelevant item in The Oxford Times . |
| 16 | If an injury is serious i.e. where marked residual aspects claimed and/or lengthy absence from work involved , it is not advisable to wait for the third party solicitors to produce a Medical Report . |
| 17 | Messiaen began composing at the age of seven , entering the Paris Conservatoire four years later where he was to remain for the next 11 years , winning four premiers prix including that for composition in 1930 . |
| 18 | Such was my father 's introduction to Abyssinia where , except for three periods of leave , he was to remain for the next ten years . |
| 19 | I could see his jeans , shirts , jerseys , everything he needed to wear for the next two days , neatly folded in a drawer in Edinburgh . |
| 20 | Heavy rain stopped everyone after 18 laps , so it was back to go for a second start . |
| 21 | Thus Scargill was reluctant to go for a third national ballot under his leadership , and the fourth in four years . |
| 22 | If the child does n't want to go for the first test or even the second test , it is their right . ’ |
| 23 | And as I started to go for the third man , I heard the sound of police whistles , and then two policemen arrived with the woman , and the third thug ran for it . |
| 24 | It could also pay to go for the next larger filter if your pond is alternatively stocked . |
| 25 | As far as I can see , there is not likely to be anywhere for it to go for the next five or 10 years , except east on the A47 or south on the A6 . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've been trying to go for the last half-hour , ’ he whispered , ‘ but you wo n't let go of my neck ! ’ |
| 27 | And as the embarrassing minutes ticked away I began to realize for the first time the enormity of the problem which confronted Mrs Rumney . |
| 28 | And he talks of the , and plainly in that erm sort of mystical experience that he had with the Whiteheads , he did in , as it were , come to realize for the first time that there was in himself this desire to lead a life erm inspired by love and guided by knowledge , and to see others leading it . |
| 29 | Show how the " translate and test " instruction described on page 117 can be used to search for the first comma . |
| 30 | And after Haley came Presley , Little Richard , and Fats Domino , laying a freeway through popular culture that outraged left and right alike , and down which successive generations of youth were to drive for the next three decades . |