Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 've had to wait for today before we could fix anything . ’ |
| 2 | It was unacceptable , he said , that patients should have to wait for more than two years for their promised treatments . |
| 3 | By 1897 he had gone , the mill coming into the hands of John Wyman , who was to remain for more than thirty years . |
| 4 | My perfect house , the one I am condemned to search for just as the womaniser in 10 is condemned to search for his impossible mate , could only have existed in some fiction I had read — or in a past life . |
| 5 | I was coming up to my eleven hours — we 're not supposed to drive for more than eleven hours — and I went in and there was Charlie Hatton . |
| 6 | Once the director took Dustin aside and said , ‘ This is the only day we 're ever going to shoot this scene and , no matter how exhausted or lousy you feel , I want you to remember that what you give me is going to be on celluloid for people to see for ever and ever . |
| 7 | One has to go through past or around York erm for your shopping facilities . |
| 8 | Three months ago , when Brian Mulroney announced his intention to retire after more than eight years as prime minister , it looked virtually certain that his successor as Conservative leader would be the bright and effervescent minister of defence , Kim Campbell . |
| 9 | What I have to struggle for again and again is instinct with her . |
| 10 | In the normal course of events , one would expect those high standards to suffice for more than five years ; but these are not normal times . |
| 11 | For a man who found it difficult to write for more than three hours a day it was one way of passing time but , more importantly , as he explained in an address in 1951 , it was necessary for him to hold a job which other people considered useful ; he had so little confidence in his own work that he did not want to risk wasting all of his time upon it . |
| 12 | The older farmers particularly found it difficult to concentrate for more than 3 hours . |
| 13 | That it 's almost impossible for the human brain to concentrate for more than ten minutes of time on any |
| 14 | gives you a bit more time to decide exactly what you want to talk about cos if if it has go to be in week three or week four , then we really sort of like decide now what you 're going to write about so that n Cos next week is gon na be our last meeting on this topic , so you really want to sort of give a bit of a presentation on what you 're going to say . |
| 15 | A single leaf of the Gutenberg ( or Mazarin ) Latin Bible of c.1456 is likely to cost from £2,000-£3,000 ; even an imperfect copy of Coverdale ( which is the only condition in which it occurs ) will probably fetch from £5,000-£10,000 according to the nature of its deficiencies ; and a reasonable copy of the first issue of the first edition of the Authorised Version would be hard to find for less than £2,000-£3,000 . |
| 16 | Industry analysts at Crédit Suisse in Tokyo expect the military side of the aircraft business in Japan to stagnate between now and 1995 . |
| 17 | Not so long ago , a haulage company would send its drivers out into the world with few opportunities to communicate with then until they returned . |
| 18 | Who the hell gave you the right to breeze in here and order me about ? ’ |
| 19 | All those people who criticise these young girls and say they wo n't be able to cope and wo n't make good mothers ought to come in here and look at them now because they were absolutely fantastic with those children . |
| 20 | and he used to come in here and , and if it , if Y T or , or jobs you know whatever it was going to be , they , they all come in and they knew who Steve is |
| 21 | I need somebody to come in here and explain this . |
| 22 | The system posed some obstacles to the monarch 's freedom of appointment , but it reflected above all the nobles ' concern to benefit from rather than to limit the power of the State . |
| 23 | She planned to hide in there until the seeker had gone . |
| 24 | ‘ This may be the opportunity for another young man to appear from nowhere and make a name for himself . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ The motivation has to come from within and he also needs to take the right approach when he 's away from Anfield , ’ he added . |
| 26 | I think what we 've all to pay for this erm that we will perhaps it will have to come from somewhere and again of the Council Planning Department as we we do erm continue . |
| 27 | Such is the confusion of street fighting that bullets can appear to come from anywhere and everywhere . |
| 28 | Nonetheless , his main rivals all appear more likely again to come from overseas than they do from America . |
| 29 | Yet his main rivals all appear more likely , again , to come from overseas than America . |
| 30 | Goals by Mick Harford and Julian James enabled Luton to come from behind and claim a win that leaves them only three points behind Coventry , the club fourth from bottom , with four games each to play . |