Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] for [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furious , she sat down to wait for the next vehicle . |
| 2 | The implication was that when it came to embroidery , the stitching up had been done on Merseyside , if Barnes had been fit enough to train for the last two days . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The Great Powers thus pressed their territorial control outwards to encompass for the first time virtually the whole surface of the globe , to centralize the world on a few centres of power . |
| 5 | After another couple of hymns and an anthem , they go down to prepare for the next service . |
| 6 | Two days before the speech ( i.e. on Aug. 14 ) a petition signed by a group of 58 human rights activists , academics and retired armed forces officers had called on Suharto not to stand for a sixth term as President in 1993 . |
| 7 | The environment working group of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) is finally to meet for the first time — 20 years after it was first constituted . |
| 8 | Moodie , despite a clutch problem on his Honda , closed within four seconds at Ramsey on the final lap , but the 37 year-old Reid put the power down and pulled away to win for the second successive year . |
| 9 | I decided not to vote for the first time in 37 years because of the EC . |
| 10 | ‘ They are given a topic straight away to revise for the first exam — which is at 9am the following morning . |
| 11 | and then we use this method to then go a stage further to prepare for the second presentation . |
| 12 | The 1900s were also to see for the first time deaf women beginning to acquire their own identity through achievement by their own talent although not one as yet played any prominent part in deaf organisations which remained the preserve of the deaf male . |
| 13 | Rabobank NV and Amsterdam-based Getronics NV have teamed up to bid for the second Dutch Groupe Speciale Mobile digital cellular licence . |
| 14 | Heavy rain stopped everyone after 18 laps , so it was back to go for a second start . |
| 15 | Putting the thoughts out of his head , he settled back to wait for the next people who could keep the Americans busy . |
| 16 | If he was the sole breadwinner , you may have to go out to work for the first time . |
| 17 | Even though the Irish need a point in Valetta to clinch their first appearance in the finals , Charlton has agreed for Galvin to stay behind to play for the Second Division side in their Littlewoods Cup third-round second replay at Bolton . |
| 18 | ( The Abbey 's building and contents insurance must be taken out to qualify for the first time buyer 's discount ) . |
| 19 | David called Mick Ronson and Woody Woodmansey ( after making ‘ The Man Who Sold The World ’ , they had returned to Hull where they lived ) and invited them back to prepare for the next album , ‘ Hunky Dory ’ . |
| 20 | It is a curious miscellany , where photographs of his early ballets are mixed in with family snap-shots , pictures of his friends , souvenirs of journeys , Christmas and other greetings , a book of clothing coupons from the days of rationing , costume drawings and various illustrations cut from magazines , including a feature on Roland Petit 's ballet Carmen and examples of the ‘ new look ’ in women 's clothes when long skirts came back to fashion for the first time since the war ; he proposed a ballet about that , but it was rejected . |
| 21 | She felt sad and immensely tired that she was about to see for the first time how Eddie had died . |
| 22 | Absolutely , does it make sense for , for husband and wife over there to wait for the second one to have a heart attack , or the second one to have a cancer before it pays out , |
| 23 | Kingsley says he 's not sure whether the hunger is there to win for the second year . |
| 24 | The master at work — shows the girls how to pose for the next photograph . |
| 25 | She rang again and was about to ring for a third time when the door was pulled abruptly open . |
| 26 | ‘ Refreshing , ’ she euphemistically called the British climate she was about to face for the first time as a ‘ star ’ . |
| 27 | A wide range of support is available to assist existing exporters and businesses about to export for the first time . |
| 28 | Wales have yet to qualify for the first round of the NatWest Trophy , but looking at the results from this year 's competition , perhaps they were well out of it . |