Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Zimbabwe skipper Dave Walters and Jenkins then swopped penalties , but having scored 20 points in 15 minutes , Wales went to sleep and had to wait for outside half Adrian Davies to drop a goal with virtually the last kick of the half for their next score . |
| 2 | Well I had to , I had to wait for about eight months or was it s six months to get one of my lights fixed but for er other things they were quite quick actually . |
| 3 | I had to wait for about ten minutes . |
| 4 | He had to wait for more congenial work until 1893 , when Mrs Rylands appointed him her librarian . |
| 5 | In the 1930's , at a time when many potteries closed down to wait for more favourable conditions to return , the fifth Josiah Wedgwood decided to build a new factory . |
| 6 | No , I think that we had a fairly clear idea , certainly on the pension fund , we 've not obviously got accurate numbers , a clear idea of the broad er , shape of , of the problems and erm , that allowed us , without having to wait for very accurate figures , to draw the conclusions about the scale of the problem , the amount of investment we 'd like to , we need to make and thus erm , whether or not it was of interest to pursue . |
| 7 | No all , all that , all that was going to be done was to see about as far as I 'm aware , the feasibility of get getting one of the Education Officers and one of the |
| 8 | Her sharply hit volleys punctuated a lot of points , while her court coverage forced Seles to go for even sharper angles . |
| 9 | ‘ We want to win for as long as we can because it would be a long way to go for just one game . |
| 10 | Well , we 're getting them to go for a hundred , which sounds a lot , but the ground 's quite variable so , you know , some of it is really good planting land and some of it is n't , so , you know , it 'll be up to the teams to go for as many as they can . |
| 11 | My tip is to go for really good quality ski pants in black with braces and team that with a jacket that suits your style . |
| 12 | ‘ When I compared notes with managers in places like Glasgow and Manchester , I found that women there seemed to go for more restrained , less glitzy clothes . |
| 13 | Used to go for sometimes two or three weeks , sometimes if it was a maternity a month , but I used to enjoy it . |
| 14 | According to Chomsky , we are genetically pre-programmed to search for just this sort of structure underlying the sentences that we hear as infants . |
| 15 | The latter pointed out that , while there was a general process of restructuring , the way it worked out in practice was different from case to case and that therefore it was pointless to search for highly regular patterns . |
| 16 | This is therefore likely to encourage clinicians to search for more cost-effective procedures . |
| 17 | Some of these workers may have just entered the labour market from school , some may have been made redundant from their previous jobs , some may have been sacked for one reason or another and many will have quit their previous jobs in order to create time to search for more satisfactory ones . |
| 18 | It 's generally easier to plan for entirely new pipework , with the existing runs simply capped off and left in their present place . |
| 19 | It was decided to plan for only eight accidents . |
| 20 | Their modus operandi is to cajole their victims into parting with valuables which subsequently they hope to resell for much higher prices . |
| 21 | Brooke would chair the talks which , he said , would be allowed to continue for about three months , and any agreed outcome would be put to a referendum in both Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic . |
| 22 | To get a rough idea of the half-life of the initiated complexes the heparin challenge was allowed to proceed for either 15 seconds or for 10 minutes before the addition of KMnO 4 ( simultaneous addition of KMnO 4 and heparin was not possible since the chemical reagent oxidizes the heparin ) . |
| 23 | But I still felt as though I 'd have a nervous breakdown if I had to cope for much longer … . |
| 24 | However , it is not the world 's statesmen that we have to thank for even this limited achievement in arms control , but the women and men whose political activity has ensured that some action must be taken . |
| 25 | I woke to see through half open eyes enormous Technicolour images of baffling genitalia filling the wall . |
| 26 | One standard way of establishing the degree of discrimination in employment is to arrange for equally qualified black and white workers to apply for the same job . |
| 27 | I for one am going to go after much younger women because they 're tractable , cute , and society tacitly approves of that sort of thing . |
| 28 | ‘ I have always wanted to write for as many people as possible , I want my books to be on the general fiction shelves as well as the feminist shelves . ’ |
| 29 | It 's taken me so long to write about just two years . |
| 30 | So we really do have to fight fiercely , and to do that , of course , erm one of the things that we do I think most effectively is to bring waves of foreign journalists here to write about how beautiful erm Britain is and indeed into your area , into the Oxford area , erm we 've got the Canadian T V crew coming next week , who 'll be filming and erm making erm documentary films for Canadian T V , which should be screened fairly quickly . |