Example sentences of "[to-vb] for the next " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was heavily pregnant but she was questioned and made to wait for the next twelve hours without food or water . |
| 2 | I shall just have to wait for the next Guinness Book of Records for the answer . |
| 3 | Weather conditions precluded this , so he had to wait for the next scheduled plane from Wick to Kirkwall . |
| 4 | I watched the doors close and then ran upstairs to the empty ticket hall to wait for the next train . |
| 5 | Furious , she sat down to wait for the next vehicle . |
| 6 | But when the money runs out and they ca n't afford to pay for any more care patients have to wait for the next financial year . |
| 7 | However , the jokes are a bit stale for real belly laughs , so if you 've seen him before it 's probably better to wait for the next batch . |
| 8 | And now we are to wait for the next ethnic war to intervene to salve our pitifully insensitive consciences and our failure to shape and conduct an effective policy : a neat one , no complications , allowing intervention with few , possibly no , losses . |
| 9 | Putting the thoughts out of his head , he settled back to wait for the next people who could keep the Americans busy . |
| 10 | We 'd have to wait for the next one then . |
| 11 | So we had to wait for the next bus , which was six o'clock . |
| 12 | Messiaen began composing at the age of seven , entering the Paris Conservatoire four years later where he was to remain for the next 11 years , winning four premiers prix including that for composition in 1930 . |
| 13 | Such was my father 's introduction to Abyssinia where , except for three periods of leave , he was to remain for the next ten years . |
| 14 | I could see his jeans , shirts , jerseys , everything he needed to wear for the next two days , neatly folded in a drawer in Edinburgh . |
| 15 | It could also pay to go for the next larger filter if your pond is alternatively stocked . |
| 16 | As far as I can see , there is not likely to be anywhere for it to go for the next five or 10 years , except east on the A47 or south on the A6 . |
| 17 | And after Haley came Presley , Little Richard , and Fats Domino , laying a freeway through popular culture that outraged left and right alike , and down which successive generations of youth were to drive for the next three decades . |
| 18 | Individual farmers had come across difficult times and they needed to borrow to finance seed to plant for the next year 's crop . |
| 19 | After that come more advanced techniques which students need to perform for the next grading . |
| 20 | It is very important that as you come to the end of one bottle you contact your Homœopath to arrange for the next one to be made up . |
| 21 | If I could just add my thanks to the officers substantial piece of work , which is , I hope going to be used by many members to come for the next year . |
| 22 | The Livingstones and Crichtons did this in 1439 , when they seized James II and then settled down to squabble for the next decade ; the Boyds did the same thing with James III ; and Angus found time , despite his matrimonial problems with Margaret Tudor , to get possession of James V in 1526 and dominate politics for the last two years of the minority . |
| 23 | Philip of France had sent a force of Brabançons to help his brother-in-law , the opening shot in a campaign which he was to wage for the next thirty years . |
| 24 | The important points to remember for the next series of lessons are these … |
| 25 | The new committee to serve for the next two years was elected and is Chairman — Reg Simmons , Vice-Chairman — Ian Johnson , Secretary — Sheila Hamson , and Treasurer — Phil Johnson . |
| 26 | But er , we were not successful in putting up an er and er to have a member of Wales elected on this occasion to serve for the next seven years unfortunately ! |
| 27 | When it reappeared in December , Index had taken over the printing — and Gutenberg 's technology was to rule for the next 12 years . |
| 28 | If you are aiming to go back for a landing , only stay long enough in that thermal to get properly centred before moving off again down to 1500 feet and starting to look for the next bit of lift . |
| 29 | By around 1700 grave-clothes changed , probably as a result of the influence of the soft-goods trade in ready-made items , and adopted a form which was to last for the next seventy-five years . |
| 30 | In the spring of 1922 only those households in the Famine area which possessed the necessary machinery and livestock were given grain to sow for the next season . |