Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 We should not have to apologize for a vow of celibacy .
2 However the one thing that you must never do is to go between a cow and her calf and I made this mistake one morning and I had to take to my heals and run .
3 You must know how to go about a revision of this kind .
4 The first time I went back to a lake where I used to go as a child .
5 The sensation therefore was immense when he abandoned cricket , and a life of wealth and ease , to go as a missionary to China .
6 I think we 're going to go as a council in the direction of not answering letters on time .
7 And the other half used to go as a window leather which are called st
8 Perhaps we could arrange to go as a foursome ; we 'd have no trouble getting a table if I make the arrangements . ’
9 Neither would Souness want to go as a failure .
10 ‘ I have n't got the money just to go as a traveller , and there are n't that many jobs abroad .
11 ‘ What a splendid idea to go as a Gnome !
12 gave a judgment to the like effect , although he limited his remarks to the ability of a corporation to sue for a libel reflecting on the management of its trade or business .
13 After referring to the ability of partners to sue for a libel on their firm he said , at pp. 145 , 146–147 , 148 :
14 But I do n't think there 'll be any to spare for a day or two .
15 That is why — ’ raising her head to give him a grateful look ‘ — I had none to spare for a meal at this place . ’
16 This puts industry off voluntary controls and it tends to wait for a law to be brought in .
17 Seven days — a week — is a long time to wait for a telephone service nowadays .
18 Ebert , Fest and I. We were after the assassins of the T'ang 's Minister , Lwo Kang , and had been told to wait for a contact from our Triad connections there .
19 on the other hand , a school with a high rate of staff turnover can not usually afford to wait for a consensus and readiness that may never come ; and a staff hand-picked in a new school , or for a new school situation such as amalgamation or unstreaming , is usually in a mood for bigger adventures .
20 Does the Minister agree with the view therefore , that nurses that nurses should be given the authority to admit patients to hospital provided there is a bed without having to wait for a decision to be to be made by a doctor ?
21 Forty years may be a long time to wait for a 19p basic rate of tax .
22 He reached it without mishap but had to wait for a while , watching the day begin , until the ferrymaster arrived .
23 Eventually , well into the afternoon , we found the route — but had to wait for a couple who pushed in front claiming they were ‘ HVS climbers ’ and would not take long .
24 With someone who 's not I 'd try and get them to wait for a couple of days and then if they would n't I 'd go through the and get them it today .
25 Each call sent out by a client has to wait for a response before another is sent .
26 Each call sent out by a client has to wait for a response before another is sent .
27 But they may have to wait for a year , and maybe even two , before the brief , dramatic cycle can begin all over again .
28 For this reason , instead of joining in the stampede for the latest and newest , I suggest it would be more prudent to wait for a year or two to see if the strawberry blonde holds her place as a glamour queen , or in reality is a blowzy old dame hobbling into the has-beens in the back row of the chorus , where she will find plenty to keep her company .
29 First she wanted to learn and see , she wanted to wait for a man who did things and was something on his own .
30 I urge the assembly to accept this amendment to depart from this statement , to commend to our churches the use of the apostle 's creed and to wait for a day of broad theological agreement which in the providence of God and by the work of the holy spirit will surely come and then agree upon a statement of faith which we shall all agree and be able to commend enthusiastically to the church but until then to depart from this one .
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