Example sentences of "[to-vb] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He reached it without mishap but had to wait for a while , watching the day begin , until the ferrymaster arrived . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | Each call sent out by a client has to wait for a response before another is sent . |
| 35 | Each call sent out by a client has to wait for a response before another is sent . |
| 36 | But they may have to wait for a year , and maybe even two , before the brief , dramatic cycle can begin all over again . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | First she wanted to learn and see , she wanted to wait for a man who did things and was something on his own . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | Every time he has to wait for a question , he claims victory . |
| 41 | He thought of sitting down to wait for a break in the storm but that could have been all night so he struggled on downhill , angling a little to the left , until he met the treeline at the bottom of the meadow . |
| 42 | At a corner he stopped to wait for a break in the traffic . |
| 43 | A day longer to wait for a letter ! |
| 44 | But they had to wait for a host of their rivals to commit pop suicide before they could begin the job of moulding this new discovery . |
| 45 | What happens if Well , oh sa , pwurgh , I do n't know , I mean she has to wait for a week . |
| 46 | I decided to wait for a review — you know what Microsoft 's other support lines are like . |
| 47 | Perhaps I am prepared to wait for a miracle . |
| 48 | Maxim had an hour and a half to wait for a train to Osnabrück , and half changed his mind about hiring a car , but that meant lots of signatures , and might be difficult to hand back if he flew home on a trooping flight from RAF Gütersloh . |
| 49 | You can use GET and GET$ whenever you want your program to wait for a reply before continuing . |
| 50 | They had to be willing , too , to wait for a place to become available . |
| 51 | It may be necessary to wait for a place or take a place somewhere else ( either permanently or temporarily ) . |
| 52 | Clare was fired for turning up late after she had to wait for a doctor because Josh had a temperature . |
| 53 | To find its most lasting realization , Charlie 's vision would have to wait for a bank clerk who did understand metempsychosis , and who had not only a commercial education gained in an underground room at Lloyds Bank , but also a knowledge of Greek . |
| 54 | I also think that erm it 's up to erm us — I mean if you think of us as a whole travel industry — to really take a look at what we are providing and compare it with what is provided in other countries ; the standards of service , how long do you have to wait for a meal when you 're sitting down to eat in a restaurant , what are people used to in France and Germany and the USA ? |
| 55 | Well that was the , the erm union for us , erm I think erm one of the great assets of being in public transport was that we were in a local erm pension scheme , erm when , when we in the office started , we had to wait until we were eighteen and then we had to wait for a vacancy because there was a limited number of people that the Council were prepared to back by paying a similar amount . |
| 56 | On February 27 she was told only a heart transplant would save her husband 's life and they would have to wait for a donor . |
| 57 | There were very old dogs , taken gently to the nearest suitable spot then straight home ; dogs who bounded ahead , to wait for a moment , look round , eyes shining , mouth dripping , before dashing off once more ; dogs on the lead , who would drag their owner slowly from one thoughtfully sniffed-over site to the next ; and there were some , like Wilson , who trotted to heel — alert , brisk , responsible — although Wilson was not a dog , only so much like an Aberdeen terrier in bearing and gait that his picture sometimes became confused in my mind . |
| 58 | At Darlington , so that they would not have to wait for a connection , they had hired a special train to Richmond , where they were met . |
| 59 | We stopped for half an hour in Reading to wait for a connection . ’ |
| 60 | I said I 've been waiting six months now , I 've given my life six months to wait for a job , I said , you ca n't get experience if you 're not given chances |