Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | gave a judgment to the like effect , although he limited his remarks to the ability of a corporation to sue for a libel reflecting on the management of its trade or business . |
| 2 | As they crossed to the supermarket they had to wait as an assistant wearing a jacket over his uniform wheeled a long line of trolleys from a loading bay into the store . |
| 3 | They had to be willing , too , to wait for a place to become available . |
| 4 | Plus of course the attendant horrors for someone normally so well-groomed to have to wait for a face plastered with scabs and unshaveable stubble to heal . |
| 5 | ( The main reasons for taking this approach is that for dynamic handwriting recognition it is necessary to select the correct information shortly after the word was written — it may not be possible to wait for the user to finish a sentence or clause . ) |
| 6 | In the morning we have to wait for the sun to turn it to water . |
| 7 | At the same time , while ensuring the blue of sky in front of the camera , I had to wait for the sun to fall on the scene from behind me , otherwise the sparkle of beach and palms would have been lost . |
| 8 | He has n't , got to wait for the things to come the , the bed and the car and er they have n't ordered a carpet yet |
| 9 | The Romans did no have to wait for the Greeks to discover that they were mortals . |
| 10 | A second later a tall , broad-shouldered figure threw open the rear door — clearly too impatient to wait for the chauffeur to bring the vehicle to a halt . |
| 11 | ’ Does an employer have to wait for the government to push her into saying ’ This is a human being ? ’ |
| 12 | Programs that are forced to wait for the processor have their priorities raised over time to ensure that they are not denied resource indefinitely . |
| 13 | She put a red plastic bowl on the refrigerator floor and sat down to wait for the ice to melt . |
| 14 | If you er , if the people of West Sussex a couple of weeks ago , when there was flooding around Chichester , they 're actually going to wait for the waters to evaporate . |
| 15 | These salads come into production faster than traditional lettuces as there is no need to wait for the plants to mature . |
| 16 | So , no sooner did the record go into the charts and we were going ‘ yeah , this is it — hooray — we 're taking off ’ , they dropped the record and we had to wait for the guys to come back to earth . |
| 17 | Always feel you are going to wait for the club to arrive and keep your head behind the shot . |
| 18 | Not long afterwards she left the cabin , and Edward returned to his bunk to wait for the ship to sail , to take him back to Sweden . |
| 19 | I did n't want to wait for the baby to appear through the navel . |
| 20 | My next bout of health problems prevented me from continuing this search , and I was forced to wait for the weather to become a little sunnier before taking the risk of venturing out . |
| 21 | And , at the end of this act we are shown how his ambition has led to another theme , that of appearance and reality , where Macbeth is told by his wife to conceal his thoughts and appear to his guests to be the perfect host whereas he is really supposed to wait for the time to kill the king . |
| 22 | Will he now change his mind or shall we have to wait for the people to do that for him ? |
| 23 | However the moment it slips you have to wait for the chain to gain momentum before cutting can recommence , otherwise it bites again . |
| 24 | Told me to wait for the horse to lift its tail . ’ |
| 25 | So we 'd fill them and we could n't see anyway , lookin We could n't look down and see , we had to wait for the foreman shouting all the instructions , move left , forward or up or down . |
| 26 | Gloria tied on her red headscarf , Dot buttoned up her pink cardigan and they went to wait for the bus to take them down to the hospital to see how Baby was doing . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm having a shower before breakfast , ’ Steve called out to her , and with a sigh of relief Ruth sank to a kitchen chair to wait for the kettle to boil . |
| 28 | How long would America have had to wait for the Community to pull all its members behind a common policy ? |
| 29 | Be quiet , little girl , we have to wait for the train to come . |
| 30 | Boswell raised the topic of emigration : Johnson distinguished between its value to ‘ a man of mere animal life ’ and ‘ a man of any intellectual enjoyment ’ : the former content to wait for the earth to produce , the latter unlikely to wish barbarism upon himself and his descendants . |