Example sentences of "[verb] for a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Stan called me and we met for a chat at his home . |
| 2 | NINE former staff at the old Williams & Glyn 's Bradford Branch were soon talking about ‘ the good old days ’ when they met for a reunion in one of the city 's wine bars . |
| 3 | Soon after his call , they met for a meal at Shoney 's Big Boy restaurant where Franks/Schafer introduced him to Burchette , who was then working from home as a one-man security service , and to Jack Terrell , a former operative of Oliver North 's in Central America . |
| 4 | We should not have to apologize for a vow of celibacy . |
| 5 | Commonly , sales forecasting for a period of up to one year ahead is differentiated from sales and market forecasting for longer periods . |
| 6 | After referring to the ability of partners to sue for a libel on their firm he said , at pp. 145 , 146–147 , 148 : |
| 7 | The General Herborising was also conducted by the Demonstrator who led his more expert colleagues further afield , sometimes to the coast where they would remain for a couple of days or more . |
| 8 | The estimate for the current work is far in excess of any price yet realised for a work by Goya and the highest price achieved at auction is currently the $650,000 ( £391,000 ) paid for a drawing entitled ‘ Those who escape work end up like this ’ sold at Christie 's New York in October 1990 . |
| 9 | Turn the dough onto a floured surface and knead for a minute before adding the cooked onion , extra oil and chopped olives . |
| 10 | That is why — ’ raising her head to give him a grateful look ‘ — I had none to spare for a meal at this place . ’ |
| 11 | Let us think for a moment about some of those who have been left behind . |
| 12 | Well then while I was serving as a detective , you can just imagine I made plenty of arrests , and I got along reasonably well with most people , but there was one man I hated yes I hated him , I , I 'd only been a detective I should think for a period of about , oh five or six months , and a man , he called on the Reverend who was the , the vicar of St. Mary where |
| 13 | This puts industry off voluntary controls and it tends to wait for a law to be brought in . |
| 14 | Ebert , Fest and I. We were after the assassins of the T'ang 's Minister , Lwo Kang , and had been told to wait for a contact from our Triad connections there . |
| 15 | Does the Minister agree with the view therefore , that nurses that nurses should be given the authority to admit patients to hospital provided there is a bed without having to wait for a decision to be to be made by a doctor ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Each call sent out by a client has to wait for a response before another is sent . |
| 18 | Each call sent out by a client has to wait for a response before another is sent . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | At a corner he stopped to wait for a break in the traffic . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | You can use GET and GET$ whenever you want your program to wait for a reply before continuing . |
| 25 | Speaking before the ASEAN standing committee in September 1984 , the Malaysian Foreign Minister declared that it would be a mistake to wait for a solution to the Kampuchean problem before making attempts to implement the idea of the zone of peace , freedom and neutrality . |
| 26 | We had to wait for an hour for our connection to Frankfurt . |
| 27 | Or whether you 've had to wait for an hour in the rain for the bus to come along , whether you 're in a good mood or a bad mood . |
| 28 | To prepare this article I had to wait for an event on a day when the visibility was gin-clear to get good photographs from my open cockpit Jodel D9 , using a telephoto lens at various focal lengths to obtain the required framing . |
| 29 | I must ask my right hon. Friend to wait for an answer to his question about persistent offenders . |
| 30 | She seemed to wait for an initiative from her friend . |