Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just come back er ladies and gentlemen to apologize for this morning 's cock up , I mean it was totally inexcusable of me . |
| 2 | It was not intended to give this impression , and we take this opportunity to make that clear and to apologize for any embarrassment caused . |
| 3 | The easiest and most obvious way to go about this self-assessment is to divide a sheet of paper with a line down the middle , head it ‘ Plus ’ and ‘ Minus ’ and write down everything you can think of under each heading . |
| 4 | and , and stuff like that so I mean in a sense you 're by now a fairly good judge of the way to go about this sort of thing , you 're a fairly good judge of what sort of things are important , perhaps the way in which people describe stuff and , and , you know , words , concepts , vocabularies erm all that kind of thing which obviously it helps if your questionnaire fits in with |
| 5 | And are you now going to take that any further or are you going as far as the government wants you to go as this stage ? |
| 6 | If this is not possible ( and it usually is n't ) , the golden advice at the present time must be to sell first rather than risk lumbering yourself with the crippling expense of having to borrow for several months or possibly longer . |
| 7 | Any well-drafted transfer will therefore provide for the transfer of the right to sue for such breaches . |
| 8 | This doctrine enables a lessee to sue for any trespass committed between the granting of the lease and his entering in pursuance of it . |
| 9 | There were n't any houses then and there was a big ditch where the canal side and erm we used to have to wait for each other , because no street lamps , nothing at all like that and er really we used to be afraid and then when the first bus ran , shall I tell you this , when the first bus ran from , from Bloxwich to Willenhall of course word got around that the buses were beginning , because the roads were only ruts , they were n't tarmacked roads then and it was certainly gentlemen first for the first there were about three hundred waiting that was a lot of at the top is it Street , I think it 's that and all the gentlemen were first but we , some of us managed to scramble on , but erm then they used to break down very very often because the roads the roads were in such a terrible condition they were only ruts . |
| 10 | The verdict on that one , however , may have to wait for many years yet . |
| 11 | Well he 's so badly parked you see , he 's got to wait for both traffics to go whereas I could go easily |
| 12 | We had to wait for some months in order to get a passage and finally set oft on my birthday in January . |
| 13 | Though debt-for-equity swaps represent one way for banks to recover part of their developing country debt exposure , they still stand to lose money and look likely to have to wait for some years before they can cash in their equity stakes . |
| 14 | We had to wait for some days until a convoy of ships was ready . |
| 15 | They were repeatedly told he was too busy , and when finally , at the eleventh hour , they were granted a meeting , some sort of communication problem caused Mrs Sue Amphlett and her associate to be sent from one building to another and then to wait for some time in the wrong one , until they had to leave to finish the report in time for the news conference they had called . |
| 16 | She had to wait for some time before the door was opened , and she hoped very much that it would be opened by Clelia , but it was not ; it was opened by a thin , brown , balding , youngish looking man . |
| 17 | Electrical stimulation could produce dramatic effects , but the proper study of electro-physiology had to wait for some time until it was possible to record small electrical potentials . |
| 18 | ‘ We will not stop ( reforms ) to wait for any decisions from the G7 , whether we receive aid or not , ’ he told reporters . |
| 19 | Customers are no longer prepared to wait for several months for their chosen pattern . |
| 20 | I had to wait for another performance to see . ’ |
| 21 | But I am afraid this will have to wait for another occasion . ’ |
| 22 | All is well , however , except that the 140 people on the island will have to wait for another occasion to exercise their democratic rights . |
| 23 | However , that discussion will have to wait for another day . |
| 24 | A new motor car was for many a luxury that would have to wait for another day . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm sorry to disappoint you , but Hadrian and his wall will have to wait for another time . ’ |
| 26 | Fellow passengers had to wait for another train to continue their journey because the original train 's safety mechanism had jammed . |
| 27 | Managers who never leave do not have to wait for another manager to retire or die so that they can fill their shoes . |
| 28 | He will not have long to wait for another diet of his own words . |
| 29 | Captain Mark Phillips had been expected to remain for some time in his cottage on the estate , where he has lived since the marriage broke up three years ago . |
| 30 | With some 15,500 outlets for their business , solicitors are likely to remain for some time the principal providers of legal services even if there is considerable expansion of alternatives to the use of solicitors for some legal work ( The Law Society , 1990 ) . |