Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [num] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're all going to go off one day and there 's nothing better than planning for it . |
| 2 | He had to wait for fifteen minutes before he was admitted to the Agency 's annexe . |
| 3 | Forbes thus had to wait for fifteen years or so before the coveted post came up ; during this time Jameson sometimes teetered but always recovered , and his courses and museum fell behind the times . |
| 4 | After the concert she had to wait for four minutes before McCartney could rejoin her … while he accepted a standing ovation . |
| 5 | Aszal had all the documents required from a returning immigrant , but he was questioned for four hours and made to wait for four hours and then told he could go . |
| 6 | We might well have to wait for six months before we found a prahu which was heading in the right direction . |
| 7 | The trouble was that after they were born , children had to wait for six years before they could be sent to school and forgotten for most of the day . |
| 8 | And I 've got to wait for three weeks before I know ! |
| 9 | Physicians are concerned at the fact that heart patients sometimes have to wait between three months and a year for surgery . |
| 10 | Wounds were then left to heal for 18 hours and the position of the epithelial wound margin was noted in relation to the mesenchymal markers ( Fig. 2 ) . |
| 11 | A man who allowed a greyhound to suffer for six weeks after it broke its leg has been banned from keeping dogs for three years . |
| 12 | It is little use allowing conditions to deteriorate for three months and then to conduct a total clean-out of the filter and a 100% water change . |
| 13 | The guidance says that Kenneth Clarke , the Health Secretary , ‘ is minded ’ to go for Japanese-style pendulum arbitration — where the arbiter would be free only to find for one party or the other , and would not be able to compromise . |
| 14 | After a while , the lad turned up back at the farm and offered to work for two shillings and pay his own insurance stamp . |
| 15 | And when it 's pressed out of the grapes , the juice comes out , they allow it to stand for five days and then they put it into bottles . |
| 16 | Leave it to stand for 10 minutes and then shape into 8 or 10 burgers . |
| 17 | If electrons are sent through the slits one at a time , one would expect each to pass through one slit or the other , and so behave just as if the slit it passed through were the only one there — giving a uniform distribution on the screen . |
| 18 | Or a bed into the smallest bedroom ; — A man from British Telecom trying to use one of those stupid modern phone boxes that are just little booths exposed to the weather ideally when he 's ringing up for details of something and trying to write with one hand while trying to stop the piece of paper blowing away . |
| 19 | ‘ So , back to work in two weeks or so and then where ? ’ he continued in the same quiet voice . |
| 20 | The new measures provided for ( i ) the lifting of the 150-mile exclusion zone around the Falkland Islands and its replacement on March 31 , 1990 , by mutually agreed security arrangements ( backed up by a direct radio " hotline " between the commander of the Falklands garrison and Argentina 's military high command ) giving each country advance warning of the military manoeuvres of the other , and allowing Argentinian warships and aircraft to come within 50 miles and 70 miles respectively of the Falklands without prior permission ; ( ii ) co-operation on air and sea rescue , safety procedures and air and maritime navigation ; ( iii ) an investment promotion and protection pact to encourage investment in the Falklands , and negotiations on possible Anglo-Argentinian investment promotion and protection agreements ; ( iv ) shared information on fishing in the South Atlantic , although a 150-mile conservation zone around the Falklands would be maintained , within which Argentinian vessels were denied the right to fish [ see p. 37001 ] ; ( v ) a working group on South Atlantic affairs and arrangements for further talks to improve contacts between the mainland and the Falklands ; ( vi ) visits by Argentinian relatives to Falkland war graves by arrangement with the International Red Cross ; ( vii ) co-operation on environmental protection ; and ( viii ) co-operation against drug trafficking . |
| 21 | There were nervous moments in the grand slam match for England as with two minutes left , they allowed France to pull within two points when Camberaberaux converted a try . |
| 22 | In between these two extremes comes the large mass of honourable and intelligent outdoor enthusiasts who listen to the frothings and bayings back and forth between the two factions with alarm , but without the detailed information from both sides which would enable them freely and democratically to make up their own minds , and if necessary bring their concerted pressure to bear on one side or the other to desist . |
| 23 | Dr Riddoch , of Bristol university , says : ‘ To be effective you need to concentrate on one exercise or part of the body . |
| 24 | At a 1 : 1 000 000 scale each overlay consists of 200 Mb of data , a figure that is expected to increase to 500 Mb when the digitization programme is completed in 1989 . |
| 25 | Relocation to a new area could , therefore , provide the opportunity to consolidate on one site and to provide sufficient area for future expansion . |
| 26 | The Chinese believe that to stand on one leg while kicking with the other unbalances the practitioner and places him at a disadvantage . |
| 27 | So it is particularly refreshing to come across one company that not only recruited its company secretary and main board director when she was four months pregnant , but also waited for almost a year for her to join full time . |
| 28 | Allow to simmer for 4 minutes and then , using a ladle , very carefully strain the liquid through a conical strainer covered with a muslin cloth . |
| 29 | A friend and I spread the maps out , moved the cats , and decided to pick off five Munros that form a horseshoe ridge culminating in Sgurr a' Mhaim , and including something ominously titled the Devil 's Ridge . |
| 30 | The mothers were given milk-with-soya to drink for two days or soya only for two days — there was an interval of two , four or six days between the milk challenges . |