Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [det] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 and , and stuff like that so I mean in a sense you 're by now a fairly good judge of the way to go about this sort of thing , you 're a fairly good judge of what sort of things are important , perhaps the way in which people describe stuff and , and , you know , words , concepts , vocabularies erm all that kind of thing which obviously it helps if your questionnaire fits in with
2 We had to wait for some months in order to get a passage and finally set oft on my birthday in January .
3 They were repeatedly told he was too busy , and when finally , at the eleventh hour , they were granted a meeting , some sort of communication problem caused Mrs Sue Amphlett and her associate to be sent from one building to another and then to wait for some time in the wrong one , until they had to leave to finish the report in time for the news conference they had called .
4 ‘ We will not stop ( reforms ) to wait for any decisions from the G7 , whether we receive aid or not , ’ he told reporters .
5 Customers are no longer prepared to wait for several months for their chosen pattern .
6 He will not have long to wait for another diet of his own words .
7 Captain Mark Phillips had been expected to remain for some time in his cottage on the estate , where he has lived since the marriage broke up three years ago .
8 What on earth was she supposed to wear for this evening with Dane — this evening that was n't exactly a date , yet she could think of no other description for it ?
9 It must have cost a lot of money to go for that amount of time ?
10 And in a sense Mao is saying that it 's , it 's not right to go straight for land reform , you , you 've got to go for this policy of rent reduction , interest rate reduction first .
11 So try to get him to a point where he is agreeable to discussing the problem openly with you or else to go for some form of counselling .
12 The only concession forced through before the critical days in September was on the tax allowance to foster parents who were now able to claim for any child in their care under the age of sixteen or in full-time education .
13 The central fact to acknowledge about any sort of storage is that there is rarely enough of it , and this is certainly true in the kitchen .
14 I left her , and went to search for more information in a different place .
15 ( 9 ) To authorise an applicant for an emergency protection order to search for another child on the same premises ( s48(4) ) .
16 Program the sensor pods to search for any sign of ancient habitations within a twelve thousand mile radius of the pole . ’
17 He may even refuse to search for any answer at all , though expressing the deepest need for one .
18 ‘ I really came to search for some things for my collection . ’
19 The University 's overhauled financial systems allow it to plan for another year in which income and expenditure will at least balance and may perhaps allow some restoration of the reserves it needs to cope with unexpected problems .
20 Australian Cricket Board manager Graham Halbish said doctors had ordered Waugh not to bowl for several months after diagnosing a stress fracture of his lower back — a legacy of the recent Ashes tour of England .
21 Incomes policies were seen as crucial to help solve our problems , yet over and over again governments found that political pressures made these very difficult to sustain for any length of time .
22 Unable to profit through such acts under any conditions , the Buid never associate aggression against humans with the generation of wealth or vitality .
23 He 'd had to go through that wrench of premature separation alone ; now I had to .
24 Erm , I know that over the last few days you 've gone through the process of writing prioritised notes , so I 'm not going to go through that process with you .
25 We want to go through that line by line so
26 I would never want anyone else to go through that sort of thing , ’ she recalled .
27 ( It has to go through all stages in both Houses and receive the Royal Assent . )
28 And when the senses of sight and sound are combined , it is usually necessary for the sound engineer to go through all sorts of contortions to make his recordings without upsetting the picture-recording process .
29 And salvation is not a long drawn out affair it 's not something we have to go through all sorts of processes to se , to finally achieve it , it 's there as God 's free gift waiting to be received .
30 Deputed to get his own disguise , he went off fuming to a wig shop : ‘ And the lady started to go through all kinds of salesmanship to sell me the wig and if I wanted to swim , I did n't want to swim , and I 'm sitting there knowing that this meeting is going to start very soon and I can not — lady , let's get on with it , I do n't give a damn , just give me a wig . ’
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