Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In May 1991 , after 30 years of bitter civil war , Eritrea broke away from Ethiopia , but has to wait for the referendum officially to declare itself an independent state . |
| 32 | In May 1991 , after 30 years of bitter civil war , Eritrea broke away from Ethiopia , but has to wait for the referendum officially to declare itself an independent state . |
| 33 | At the same time , while ensuring the blue of sky in front of the camera , I had to wait for the sun to fall on the scene from behind me , otherwise the sparkle of beach and palms would have been lost . |
| 34 | In the morning we have to wait for the sun to turn it to water . |
| 35 | So if it peaks two years before you plan to cash in , you do not lose because you had to wait for the money . |
| 36 | They would have been less well advised to move from temporary obligation to redemption if they had had to wait for the money which the peasants owed them , but the government realized that peasants were in no position to redeem their obligations overnight and advanced most of the money to which nobles were entitled in the form of interest-bearing bonds . |
| 37 | ( Of course , for my friends to stand a chance of receiving any correspondence from me means that I either have to wait for the guilt level to rise sufficiently ( which is a slow process ) , or to unearth other things to put on my list like ‘ Install central heating ’ and ‘ Decorate bathroom ’ . ) |
| 38 | If it was n't the Russians , it was the British who wanted to interfere ; so I said , I am going away to wait for the day when once again an Austrian can decide when an Austrian may conduct music in his own country . |
| 39 | However , Ferguson , despite some disappointment at Hughes ' goal ratio — he struck only 14 times in 52 appearances last season — is prepared to wait for the Welshman 's response . |
| 40 | The visitors did n't have long to wait for the opening goal . |
| 41 | A second later a tall , broad-shouldered figure threw open the rear door — clearly too impatient to wait for the chauffeur to bring the vehicle to a halt . |
| 42 | The part has an enlarged on-chip primary write-back cache rather than the write-through cache of the 80486 , which means that the CPU does not have to wait for the cache controller to copy stored data back to main memory . |
| 43 | You had to wait for the flash and details of the changes in interest rates on Black Wednesday — a day of vital interest for small businessmen and mortgage holders up and down the country . |
| 44 | The pioneer of bee research Karl von Frisch recalls ( and we have observed ) instances in which the trained foragers began to anticipate subsequent moves and to wait for the feeder at the presumptive new location . |
| 45 | More sweeping changes to deal with the threat of global warming will have to wait for the Government 's environment white paper under discussion in cabinet committee . |
| 46 | There was full consultation between family heads at each stage of the project and only a handful of families , mostly shop-owners , opted to wait for the Government supply which reached Perteguhan 18 months later . |
| 47 | ’ Does an employer have to wait for the government to push her into saying ’ This is a human being ? ’ |
| 48 | Print enthusiasts will have to wait for the publication of David Landau and Peter Parshall 's forthcoming book on Renaissance printmaking to be published by Yale University Press next year for a full discussion of such matters . |
| 49 | Programs that are forced to wait for the processor have their priorities raised over time to ensure that they are not denied resource indefinitely . |
| 50 | She put a red plastic bowl on the refrigerator floor and sat down to wait for the ice to melt . |
| 51 | I shouted wildly , as we walked together out of the front door , to wait for the coach in the road . |
| 52 | Dandelion , the dashing story-teller , so eager to be off that he jumped the ditch and ran a little way into the field before stopping to wait for the rest . |
| 53 | He had no idea how long he would have to wait to marry her , but he was prepared to wait for the rest of his life . |
| 54 | The new edict is that we will have to wait for the year 2000 to land anywhere in space other than on the Moon . |
| 55 | We shall have to wait for the year 2017 to see what the culture-ideology of consumerism makes of the Bolshevik revolution ! |
| 56 | When he had finished , and the Adams , too , had been loaded , the Collector settled down calmly to wait for the attack . |
| 57 | ‘ No , I am not prepared to wait for the trial . |
| 58 | I 've got to wait for the man ! |
| 59 | They 'd stopped in Port Patrick harbour to wait for the tide . |
| 60 | And to complete the picture there is an example of an unconserved clock … but visitors may have to wait for the Museum of Scotland to see this one tick ! |