Example sentences of "[to-vb] for [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I shouted wildly , as we walked together out of the front door , to wait for the coach in the road . |
| 32 | He had no idea how long he would have to wait to marry her , but he was prepared to wait for the rest of his life . |
| 33 | And to complete the picture there is an example of an unconserved clock … but visitors may have to wait for the Museum of Scotland to see this one tick ! |
| 34 | ‘ And of course the Pistols will have to wait for the return of better weather . ’ |
| 35 | The Ferryhill driver has also been instructed to wait for the arrival of the Crook bus before pulling out . |
| 36 | This was sooner than had been expected , President José Eduardo dos Santos declaring that it was not necessary to wait for the end of the war to initiate the reforms . |
| 37 | A little struggling lilac tree in the back yard died , because , Belinda said , too many men had pissed on it , out the window , not bothering to wait for the lavatory to be free . |
| 38 | But this poses a dilemma for the vigneron because the vine , once pruned , is at its most vulnerable to frost , while to wait for the danger of frost to subside would be to waste the vine 's limited and precious energy : the decision of when to prune can prove an expensive one . |
| 39 | Half a gross on each board yeah , oh you could n't move away from your board at all and it was erm Mr his eyes seemed to be perhaps I should n't tell you this , but I 'm going to , it may be a bit humorous for you my er Mr used to send me out through the back way into street I think it is now , to wait for the paperman with a sporting book oh should I have said that ? |
| 40 | ‘ It is certainly very strange but we will have to wait for the outcome of an investigation . ’ |
| 41 | The hotel 's owners have made it clear they are not obliged to wait for the outcome of today 's inspection . |
| 42 | Change had to wait for the coming of the postwar years . |
| 43 | He beat fellow American and world No 5 Michael Chang 7–5 , 6–2 , but had to wait for the result of the final round robin match in his group between big-hitters Goran Ivanisevic and Richard Krajicek to see if he would get through to the semi-finals of this last ranking competition of the year . |
| 44 | Alloa , with a 52-0 victory over Cambuslang , and Livingston , with a 14-13 win against Linlithgow , stay in Division Four but Linlithgow will have to wait for the result of Cartha Queen 's Park 's final match before their fate is known against the already relegated Lismore . |
| 45 | And then , anyone who owed less than £200 had to wait for the start of the next law term in another four months if he wished to apply for the discharge which would come upon his delivering his whole property to the single creditor who had stayed with the process as long as that . |
| 46 | The partners have taken the pay cut until next March to see if interest rates fall and to wait for the launch of a new product . |
| 47 | ( 5 ) Because of the exemption for anything done in pursuance of a scheme of arrangement under s153(3) ( e ) , it should in theory be possible for financial assistance proposed to be provided as part of the Court Scheme to be implemented immediately ( because the target is bound by the scheme when it becomes effective ) without the need to wait for the target to be re-registered as a private company and the private company exemption procedure followed . |
| 48 | Firemen had to wait for the mains to be turned off before engineers could cap the broken pipe . |
| 49 | Firefighters had to wait for the mains to be turned off before engineers could cap the broken pipe in Swindon . |
| 50 | It is ironical that the Court composers should have had to wait for the establishment of the Commonwealth before their songs were published . |
| 51 | Also , the point of sharing would come much earlier as there is no need to wait for the completion of a ‘ book ’ before it goes to a central access point . |
| 52 | Lastly , the GCSE requires pupils to wait for the length of a two-year course before they can know whether they have been successful , whereas a record of achievement is only the most recent and perhaps summarizing statement of progress which the pupils themselves have monitored and recorded . |
| 53 | The social position into which individuals are born here is the one in which , theoretically , they are bound to remain for the rest of their life . |
| 54 | Again she was a busy young mother who did not really find the time to mourn for the loss of her unborn children . |
| 55 | Many old people in particular find it impossible to retire for the night without washing up and leaving everything tidy . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | 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 . |
| 58 | ‘ What I 'd really like to do now is to go for a drink with you . |
| 59 | To go for a drive in a boyfriend 's car seemed the height of sophistication . |
| 60 | After my exam , I would like to go for a course at the Outward Bound School where I can learn many new things . |