Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [pron] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ How much of your clobber will you need for your first two days ? ’
2 Is this the full complement of men you 'll need for our next operation ? ’
3 She could hardly believe it , and she could not wait for her next consultation to see what was going to happen next .
4 He described one woman who kept saying , ‘ I ca n't wait for my second one to leave home , ’ but was actually denying the sadness she felt .
5 ‘ I ca n't wait for his first day — I 'll spend it in bed . ’
6 True , if understood to relate to candidates as persons : my third preference for Brawny can never count against my first preference for Beefy .
7 What will I discuss with my next host ?
8 And I was trying to , gon na move the was gon na discuss with you first , but Croydon see , so they 're actually not Croydon Rank , they 're Croydon , but anyway
9 Statistically , Oxted Green ‘ B ’ can be denied promotion from division three but it is highly unlikely that they will fall in their last match .
10 SELLAFIELD 'S nuclear reprocessing plant , due to be in operation by the end of the year , is already storing some of the 7,000 tonnes of material it will recycle in its first decade .
11 Assuming that the Congress , which has wasted so much time so far , does not get round to final approval of any of the versions of the constitution , Mr Yeltsin could either wait until its next scheduled meeting in the autumn , seeking a compromise with parliament .
12 ‘ Do n't wait until your third year to learn about careers in the City ’ , ran a flier pinned to the stall .
13 Forever talking about an important matter which he would discuss on his next leave .
14 Now he could concentrate on his first television situation comedy series .
15 However , I have to confess that as you were a new arrival and not one of us into the bargain , I thought I should glance at your first letter or two home …
16 The apple as symbol is all around us but most of us would still think of it first as a tasty snack .
17 Mm yes , let's see what you can do for me first .
18 Nor did he ever speak of his first wife , her mother .
19 What do I do with it first of all ?
20 So Dr Palcic and his team are developing a second test to help decide who might benefit from their first test — they are trying to determine whether a patient might have signs of lung cancer by looking at cells coughed up in his sputum .
21 What did you do in your last job ?
22 I , I 'll speak to them first and I 'll , I 'll er when , when , when you come back with some details I , I 'll let you know then .
23 ‘ She would n't speak to me last time I was in your home , ’ she complained .
24 You did not speak to me next morning , nor for the whole of the next day .
25 You will get a receipt for each transaction and full details will appear on your next statement — where you spent your money and how much .
26 It will then appear on your next bank statement in both foreign currency and sterling .
27 Norman has the adrenalin flowing for the Masters , and is confident he will improve on his last two visits , when he missed the cut both times .
28 So we 've got a pile of bones , a pile of building material , lumps of wood , what do you think we might do to them next ?
29 There are four essentially different things a process can do on its first step : ( i ) it diverges ; ( ii ) it communicates with its environment ( and goes on to its second step ) ; ( iii ) it stops because , even though it has not terminated , it can not agree with its environment on any communication ; ( iv ) it terminates in some state .
30 Yet for all this newfound hostility to the most lickspittle Press in the ‘ free ’ world , what did Dave Mellor do on his first day out of the Cabinet ?
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