Example sentences of "[to-vb] for them " in BNC.
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| 1 | Speed of response can be set over a range of five steps , and may well have to be reset because , particularly in graphics mode , if it is too sensitive , loading up several movement commands into the buffer will require having to wait for them to clear . |
| 2 | It was such an important discovery that the Mayor and Corporation were persuaded to inspect it the following afternoon and the whole village turned out to wait for them . |
| 3 | Westmacott then saw two ‘ red noses ’ coming up and thought they were from his own flight , as he called his pilots to rendezvous over Takali , going down through cloud to wait for them . |
| 4 | They had a long walk over the moor to Bingley and Alfred Carter could n't afford to wait for them if they were late . |
| 5 | Jesus took Peter , James and John into the garden , the rest of the disciples having been told to wait for them . |
| 6 | I told Morag ( Mrs McDougall was busy over the tide tables with Ann and Megan ) then went out to wait for them . |
| 7 | ‘ True , but we need a second Geiger counter and there is n't time to wait for them to send us another one . ’ |
| 8 | He dusted off a box and sat down to wait for them . |
| 9 | I was told to sit down for about five hours in a hall , to wait for them to call my name out , to go to see the doctor . |
| 10 | To wait for them . ’ |
| 11 | But the processing capability is in itself , no matter how good the program , only half the benefit ; the other half is derived from being able to get the answers when they are wanted and not have to wait for them . |
| 12 | We going to wait for them . ’ |
| 13 | He could afford to wait for them now , if he wanted . |
| 14 | Now if you come to Caldmore , you 'll find out then that the majority of the married ladies had worked in I mean I should say that erm I know my mother was very snooty she 'd been an apprentice to some dressmakers in Street and work for one year for nothing she always used to tell me , and she was quite er toffee- nosed about these girls that used that er that used to go , well they were very respectable people , and when I was a kid when I growing up in my teens a lot of the girls I used to know were in the offices at er it they employed about fifteen hundred people at in those days you know I mean coming out of at night it was fighting your way against the crowd if you were going towards it , and the same thing going through the square for people who have worked in when they left that 's why all those shops in the square used to do reasonably well , it was the people walking through to go up the other side of Walsall , but there was a crowd of people I can , I can always remember as a kid a crowd of people and then there 'd be well you can tell it was along Street in those days I can remember fruiters ' carts where the girls used to go and buy apples , and that all sort of going along there you know people used to wait for them coming out , these are my impressions as a kid I mean I can remember the , the er and the men of course were cutters and various people and a quite a lot of my father 's friends were , were er had er skilled jobs at as cutters and managers of the cutters ' department and that sort of thing . |
| 15 | Are all children and me , and adults who have been baptised members of the church ? is not or you 'll be actually encouraged or pressured to misinterpret the membership or should we wait for them to be informed er er , to wait for them to , to feel the ? |
| 16 | Because we 've had to wait for them |
| 17 | Oh , I do n't know whether you need a brace or not , open , Michael do n't know what they are Stacey you 'll have to wait for them to grow properly , open |
| 18 | He 's had to wait for them to come . |
| 19 | We are angry at the way Labour is being presented and we are going to go for them . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Oh , we 've had such a marvellous day , Uncle Albert took us to the Marine Museum and then we went on to collect sea-shells ourselves , he knew where to go for them , we found hundreds ; and we had a lobster picnic . |
| 21 | cos my daughter you see , I get so cross if anyone 's at my car , I 'm likely to go for them . |
| 22 | It is Davie 's contention that this view is quite wrong : there are a great many outstandingly talented British poets , including Charles Tomlinson , C H Sisson , Elaine Feinstein and others ( Davie , as distinguished a poet as any of his subjects , modestly excludes his own work ) who do not answer to this description , and one purpose of Under Briggflats is to claim for them the attention they have often been denied ; in some cases , indeed , to rescue them from scandalous neglect . |
| 23 | As she was due at her weekly Patrol meeting she could n't stop to search for them . |
| 24 | Many scientists believe that the Earth is not the only place in the Universe inhabited by intelligent life , so much so that radio telescopes are being used to search for them . |
| 25 | Now you do n't have to search for them . |
| 26 | She remembered that somewhere Dorothy had kept old photograph albums and , on a whim , began to search for them . |
| 27 | ‘ We 'll have to search for them . ’ |
| 28 | Earlier records ‘ are stored away somewhere ’ but the library staff did not have time to search for them . |
| 29 | Valuable time can be wasted in trying every tlephone extension in the rooms where they might be working , or in sending another member of staff to search for them . |
| 30 | These alternatives will not always be available at short notice but it might be possible to plan for them . |