Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 31 | As soon as the passport came through , Coleman should wait for the first convenient lull in the fighting in Beirut and then leave immediately . |
| 32 | In the all ticket days you could often wait for the first coach from Leeds to turn up and they would have 20+ tickets for us poor souls who could nt get one ! ! |
| 33 | In the all ticket days you could often wait for the first coach from Leeds to turn up and they would have 20+ tickets for us poor souls who could nt get one ! ! |
| 34 | At the same time , scientists are building computer models of ocean circulation but full three-dimensional models must wait for the next generation of powerful computers . |
| 35 | I ca n't wait for the next get-together , and the thought of pulling on that old white shirt again excites me . |
| 36 | Like everyone else who has attended the Cathay Pacific Hongkong Bank Sevens , I ca n't wait for the next one . |
| 37 | But he could not sit patiently and wait for the next train , in an hour 's time . |
| 38 | I ca n't wait for the next revelations . |
| 39 | ‘ At the time I wanted to weep or murder somebody , but now — ’ he shrugged pragmatic shoulders ‘ — all I can do is wait for the next time . ’ |
| 40 | Taylor wishes that in Sweden he had substituted the frustrated Gary Lineker with the pace of Tony Daley in the second match against France , rather than wait for the third and final game against Sweden to bring the curtain down on his captain 's international career . |
| 41 | Half of Britain 's estate agents saw prices fall during the last three months . |
| 42 | Whilst some might quibble with the second part of that statement , who could argue with the first ? |
| 43 | Will his reputation survive into the twenty-first century ? |
| 44 | George VI , a shy man , was terrified of his new position and many feared that the monarchy would not survive into the next decade . |
| 45 | Would these principles survive into the next period of change in the 1990s , or had they outlived their time ? |
| 46 | More than half of them have now perished and only a score or more will survive into the next century . |
| 47 | But what of the notion that pubs wo n't survive into the next century ? |
| 48 | Cost control will serve us well for a single year but it wo n't give us a company that will survive into the next century . |
| 49 | Most innocuous sadism would fall into the first category ; sadistic murder would mark the extreme of the second . |
| 50 | Any piece of computer equipment which has to be fitted to some other equipment , such as a replacement " card " ( printed circuit board containing integrated circuits ) which has to be a certain shape , or have a certain type of connector , in order to fit into a computer will also fall into the first part of the exception . |
| 51 | As there is a danger that people will be confused and might buy from the second retailer thinking that they are buying from the other , he should be able to obtain an injunction preventing the second retailer from continuing to use the name he has chosen . |
| 52 | As you straighten your hand the band will jump from the first two fingers on to the third and fourth ones . |
| 53 | Buffalo will know in the next couple of days whether Kelly will be fit to face Houston again in the first round of the play-offs next weekend . |
| 54 | This liability would fall in the first instance on the resident owner , then the resident tenant and so on . |
| 55 | As we shall discuss in the next chapter , there is a lot more work to be done before the causal process underlying this relationship is laid bare : we do not know whether it is through buying a better diet or better medical care , for example , that richer countries improve their life expectancy . |
| 56 | As we shall discuss in the next chapter , this is a question that has concerned pluralists much more . |
| 57 | It was worked out by the Austrian ethologist Karl von Frisch in the middle of this century , by methods we shall discuss in the next section . |
| 58 | It was enthralling entertainment prompted by United 's need to gamble and attack in the second half . |
| 59 | Few members of his own party believe the prime minister can survive until the next general election , due in 1992 . |
| 60 | These channels make the membrane permeable to ions or molecules , which can then enter the cell and act as signals for the initiation of the biochemical cascades which ultimately lead , in ways that I shall describe in the next chapter , to the synthesis of new synaptic membrane components and hence to synaptic remodelling . |