Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As much as he complains about having to frolic through the clichés of his life , he is quite happy to encourage it . |
| 2 | The heat was beginning to go off the streets and the shadows were creeping out from the walls . |
| 3 | This started the defendant to go off the rails . ’ |
| 4 | Before starting the long retreat we waited till dark for the sun to go off the slopes , for the stones and avalanche slopes to re-freeze , and possibly because the sight was too horrible to contemplate . |
| 5 | The demonstrators want Britain to apologize for the executions of nine men who fought for the island 's independence in the fifties . |
| 6 | What 's , how , how 're you going to go about the problems , sort of talk through the stages . |
| 7 | ‘ And if rumour were to go about the levels that the T'ang has lost something important and would clear a deck to find it ? |
| 8 | Delivering a brief lecture on self-control , Leonora began frying bacon , cutting hunks of crusty bread , grating cheese , determined to keep so occupied that there was no attention to spare for the worries which seemed to be multiplying by the minute . |
| 9 | There are large areas in which the normal agricultural yield is thoroughly adequate for the maintenance and accumulation of energy , a fact well shown not only by doubling of our population in the eighteenth century , but also by the evidence of energy to spare for the graces of life whether in the form of meteorological recording , tours to the Lake District , walnut furniture or epistolary accomplishment . |
| 10 | He has n't , got to wait for the things to come the , the bed and the car and er they have n't ordered a carpet yet |
| 11 | We went out to wait for the others . |
| 12 | So I sat down beside her to wait for the others . |
| 13 | The Romans did no have to wait for the Greeks to discover that they were mortals . |
| 14 | The only way to change the Court was to wait for the justices ( of whom there were nine ) either to die or retire , and appoint replacements who would support the New Deal . |
| 15 | O'Neill 's suspect views were known to many unionists and the conservatives did not have to wait for the fruits of O'Neillism , however timid they may have been . |
| 16 | Anyone confirmed as suffering from a prescribed industrial disease should receive compensation for their condition without having to wait for the findings of a long drawn-out court arguments . |
| 17 | To get anywhere near an understanding of News Corporation 's accounts , you usually have to wait for the figures it is obliged to file with America 's Securities and Exchange Commission . |
| 18 | If you er , if the people of West Sussex a couple of weeks ago , when there was flooding around Chichester , they 're actually going to wait for the waters to evaporate . |
| 19 | But then , instead of making a hasty retreat , they lurked around the airfield buildings to wait for the explosions . |
| 20 | We had to wait for the police and the doctor to certify what had happened . |
| 21 | When Terry was ready , and everyone had been in to have a look , exclaim , and , in the case of Terry 's mother , cry , she ushered them all downstairs to wait for the cars . |
| 22 | These salads come into production faster than traditional lettuces as there is no need to wait for the plants to mature . |
| 23 | So , no sooner did the record go into the charts and we were going ‘ yeah , this is it — hooray — we 're taking off ’ , they dropped the record and we had to wait for the guys to come back to earth . |
| 24 | But the EPA wanted to wait for the results of the post-flood analysis in the hope that the floods would dilute the dioxin . |
| 25 | But I depressed his chest with my palms every three seconds In the old-fashioned way , willing the dog to breathe as the eyes still stared at nothing . |
| 26 | You know when we went to see about the flagstones ? |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm going upstairs to see about the children . ’ |
| 28 | I had to see as the wagons in the coals as it shifting , not falling off you see . |
| 29 | Oh by the way Miss Hall do you know anything , said P C Garfield , well said Jane I was n't going to tell , but I think Mr Sandy and their assistant knows something about it , because about twelve thirty this morning I was going to report about the cobwebs and dampness on the walls and I heard Mr Sandy and his assistant talking in the back room . |
| 30 | That 'll give you time to arrange about the animals ? ’ |