Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We should not have to apologize for a vow of celibacy . |
| 2 | You must know how to go about a revision of this kind . |
| 3 | The sensation therefore was immense when he abandoned cricket , and a life of wealth and ease , to go as a missionary to China . |
| 4 | I think we 're going to go as a council in the direction of not answering letters on time . |
| 5 | After referring to the ability of partners to sue for a libel on their firm he said , at pp. 145 , 146–147 , 148 : |
| 6 | That is why — ’ raising her head to give him a grateful look ‘ — I had none to spare for a meal at this place . ’ |
| 7 | This puts industry off voluntary controls and it tends to wait for a law to be brought in . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Each call sent out by a client has to wait for a response before another is sent . |
| 12 | Each call sent out by a client has to wait for a response before another is sent . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | At a corner he stopped to wait for a break in the traffic . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | You can use GET and GET$ whenever you want your program to wait for a reply before continuing . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The use of the mouth to caress and suck the genitals of either sex is more likely to produce disgust in some people , and is treated by many who indulge in oral sex as a ‘ problem ’ , an activity they have learned to see as a deviation from normal sexual activity . |
| 21 | I would also expect to see as a result of local shortages , more sharing of dwellings , by households who have formed not the same of concealed households who have n't succeeded in . |
| 22 | I do n't intend to discuss the housing , whether seven hundred acres , sorry seven l land for seven hundred houses is owned by the City of York , that 's not part of our case one way or the other , but we have offered you a distribution of the Greater York provision figure between the districts , because from Barton Willmore 's very extensive experience of participation in local plan work up and down the country , I think we share the view that er City of York have , that Ryedale have , my colleagues to the left and right on this side of the table have , that there does need to be a distribution , otherwise there will be at best confusion as to whether local plans comply with the structure plan , and at worst a game of of pass the parcel and everybody will be conforming , but nobody will actually be possibly meeting the figures , and that is the situation that I do n't think anybody would wish to see as a result of er the outcome of of alteration number three , I mean I do n't know how the County Council would would really be able to say whether they thought a local plan conformed to the structure plan , without knowing what that distribution was , perhaps in some bottom draw manner which is not now the approved way of going about these things , so that I think there does need to be a distribution for the proper planning of York , and before coming on to our to explain our figures a little bit , I should also say , perhaps in in response to remarks Mr Thomas made earlier on about the general character of the York area and the need to protect that , that that course is precisely what the greenbelt is for , and what it does , it is n't necessary to extend that concept across the whole of the vale of York , and therefore to seek to er discount migration outside the greenbelt . |
| 23 | While weighing up the merits of the posts of legal advisor to the Girls Public Day School Trust versus running a legal advice centre in a South London Mental Hospital , she was invited to sit as a Judge on the South-East Circuit and then , of course , her mind was made up . |
| 24 | As the search began in January 1989 for 12 people who had never watched his testimony to sit as a jury at North 's trial , one cartoonist imagined it would have to be composed of mujahedin from Afghanistan ; a satirist announced that the first two jurors selected were Hsing-Hsing and Ling-Ling , the pandas from Washington Zoo . |
| 25 | The bishop declared that for a clerk in holy orders to sit as a justice in eyre for forest pleas was contrary to the canons of the Church , and rendered him ineligible for an office involving the cure of souls . |
| 26 | I 'M getting married in less than two months and I want to lose about a stone before then to get in shape for the big day . |
| 27 | It might have been better in the present case to regard the omission to caution as a breach of the spirit of the Code rather than a breach of the Code itself . |
| 28 | I feel sorry for the Tories , they will only be able to go for a cruise around the world once instead of two or three times a year . |
| 29 | It was his habit to go for a run round his island every day before breakfast , and that morning , because rain was forecast for the rest of the day , he 'd taken advantage of the brief spell of fine weather early on to gather up driftwood from the beach after his run . |
| 30 | ‘ What I 'd really like to do now is to go for a drink with you . |