Example sentences of "[to-vb] for [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | But Greenford was in Middlesex and many was the night I spent in the pissing rain having walked to Acton Town station to wait for the first train home in the morning . |
| 2 | Furious , she sat down to wait for the next vehicle . |
| 3 | So we had to wait for the next bus , which was six o'clock . |
| 4 | I watched the doors close and then ran upstairs to the empty ticket hall to wait for the next train . |
| 5 | However , the jokes are a bit stale for real belly laughs , so if you 've seen him before it 's probably better to wait for the next batch . |
| 6 | Tomorrow was too far distanced for his mind to wait for the last piece of evidence — a mind so ceaselessly tossing , as it had been ever since Lewis — wonderful Lewis ! — had mentioned that seemingly irrelevant item in The Oxford Times . |
| 7 | If an injury is serious i.e. where marked residual aspects claimed and/or lengthy absence from work involved , it is not advisable to wait for the third party solicitors to produce a Medical Report . |
| 8 | Heavy rain stopped everyone after 18 laps , so it was back to go for a second start . |
| 9 | If the child does n't want to go for the first test or even the second test , it is their right . ’ |
| 10 | And as I started to go for the third man , I heard the sound of police whistles , and then two policemen arrived with the woman , and the third thug ran for it . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been trying to go for the last half-hour , ’ he whispered , ‘ but you wo n't let go of my neck ! ’ |
| 12 | And as the embarrassing minutes ticked away I began to realize for the first time the enormity of the problem which confronted Mrs Rumney . |
| 13 | And he talks of the , and plainly in that erm sort of mystical experience that he had with the Whiteheads , he did in , as it were , come to realize for the first time that there was in himself this desire to lead a life erm inspired by love and guided by knowledge , and to see others leading it . |
| 14 | Show how the " translate and test " instruction described on page 117 can be used to search for the first comma . |
| 15 | Microscopy has come a long way since the 1670s when Antonie van Leewenhoek used his relatively crude instruments to see for the first time the bacteria that inhabit worlds normally hidden from the naked eye . |
| 16 | The 1900s were also to see for the first time deaf women beginning to acquire their own identity through achievement by their own talent although not one as yet played any prominent part in deaf organisations which remained the preserve of the deaf male . |
| 17 | To see for the first time and together that incomparable view of San Marco from the western end of the Piazza . |
| 18 | She felt sad and immensely tired that she was about to see for the first time how Eddie had died . |
| 19 | Individual farmers had come across difficult times and they needed to borrow to finance seed to plant for the next year 's crop . |
| 20 | She wrote to me saying that in this place she found it possible to forgive for the first time and then return home to seek reconciliation . |
| 21 | After that come more advanced techniques which students need to perform for the next grading . |
| 22 | THE ISRAELI cabinet is being called this week to debate for the first time proposals made by Egypt for advancing the search for a settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict . |
| 23 | Ledgered bread failed to catch for the first hour but a switch to three bronze maggot on a size 14 hook presented over the far side found chub to 2 lb 8 oz from peg one . |
| 24 | If I could just add my thanks to the officers substantial piece of work , which is , I hope going to be used by many members to come for the next year . |
| 25 | The environment working group of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) is finally to meet for the first time — 20 years after it was first constituted . |
| 26 | It was n't only the bride , but the bride 's family she was to meet for the first time . |
| 27 | The Livingstones and Crichtons did this in 1439 , when they seized James II and then settled down to squabble for the next decade ; the Boyds did the same thing with James III ; and Angus found time , despite his matrimonial problems with Margaret Tudor , to get possession of James V in 1526 and dominate politics for the last two years of the minority . |
| 28 | This caused a delay of nine minutes , but play was able to restart for the last couple of overs . |
| 29 | He will now begin the physically and mentally painful process of taking male hormones to establish for the first time his masculinity . |
| 30 | The Great Powers thus pressed their territorial control outwards to encompass for the first time virtually the whole surface of the globe , to centralize the world on a few centres of power . |