Example sentences of "[noun] wait [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( b ) with intent to make permanent default in whole or in part on any existing liability to make a payment , or with intent to let another do so , dishonestly induces the creditor or any person claiming payment on behalf of the creditor to wait for payment ( whether or not the due date for payment is deferred ) or to forgo payment : or |
| 2 | On the facts of Modupe the accused was guilty of inducing his creditors to wait for payment when he had obtained credit by stating that he owned property when he did not and by exaggerating his employment status . |
| 3 | It is women who have to go alone ; whose lovers do not have the patience to wait at home and pray for them . |
| 4 | He mentioned to me several cases that were outstanding and told me that he and other contractors are stopping doing work involving a Housing Executive grant because they have to wait anything up to three months to wait for payment after the work has been done . |
| 5 | ‘ Now good digestion wait on appetite , |
| 6 | Bottomley mum 3-hour wait for op |
| 7 | But attackers have hijacked cars waiting at traffic lights and road junctions by simply opening the passenger door , jumping in and forcing the driver to a more deserted area . |
| 8 | There is room for a couple : one here behind the luggage ( hunched like a cosmonaut hurtling into the unknown ) and another there beneath the bottom bunk ( blankets burying a crouched figure waiting for rebirth ) . |
| 9 | So the usual thing eventually after five months waiting for payment is to find out the bloody solicitor that told them this you see and inform the the solicitors that er his client has not yet paid us and we it ought to be done and eventually that 's how we get the money . |
| 10 | Wards 14 and 15 still had guards waiting for tuberculosis cures . |
| 11 | I sat in the restaurant car waiting for breakfast and peered eagerly through steamy windows at an obscure grey landscape , unwilling to miss any part of the new ground that I was covering . |
| 12 | I have a picture in my mind still of endless queues of captives waiting under guard to mount the steps of the Aztec temples where the priests of Huitzilopochtli stood waiting with obsidian stone knives , hands and faces black with caked blood , their robes stiff with it , as they worked industriously to open up each human chest , extract the still-palpitating heart , offering it to their filthy god , then tossing the torn-open body back down the steps to the waiting warriors below , who hacked it into joints for the ritual cannibalism that ensured both the pleasures of the flesh and added prowess from the absorption of the captive joint into their own live bodies . |
| 13 | Branson waits on compensation deal |
| 14 | As she gazed down at where his car waited in pole position , Celeste 's giggles had changed into a pout . |
| 15 | The brothers waited in anticipation . |
| 16 | Nineteen Cubans and Spaniards were allowed to disembark , plus three passengers with authentic visas ; the remaining 900 or so Jews waited for news of the negotiations which involved , variously , the Cuban President , his director of immigration , the shipping line , the local relief committee , the ship 's captain and a lawyer flown in from the New York headquarters of the Joint Distribution Committee . |
| 17 | We had a one-and-a-half-hour wait between semi and final . |
| 18 | George David Watson , 25 , of Windsor Oval , Thornaby , admitted using motor van with record sheet withdrawn without proper authorisation , using motor van with incomplete record sheet and causing motor vehicle to wait on road designed as clearway , fined £250 plus £20 costs . |
| 19 | Why are we Leaving ? is a related subject , portraying the condition of refugees waiting for deliverance . |
| 20 | Previously he had to spend an hour at a transit warehouse near Lyons waiting for clearance . |
| 21 | I 've my work waiting at home . ’ |
| 22 | Up at street level , on the other side of a high wall , the town centre traffic moved and the neon club lights flickered and police vans stood on street corners waiting for trouble to start . |
| 23 | Error waiting for LIFESPAN mail message |
| 24 | But Lebanon 's foreign community did not view the operation with the same enthusiasm or sense of drama as Ford , who ostentatiously spent the night in the Oval Office in Washington waiting for news of the evacuation . |
| 25 | I have the husband and the child waiting for lunch . ’ |
| 26 | We had spent anxious weeks in Prague watching each puffy , white cloud that graced the azure sky with the hopeful eyes of a child waiting for Christmas . |
| 27 | According to Walter Map this was his mother 's teaching : he should keep aspirants waiting in hope , she said , deliberately spinning out their affairs , for an unruly hawk , if meat is held out to it and then snatched away or hid , will become keener and more inclined to be attentive and obedient . |
| 28 | Even Clint Eastwood waits till sunset . ’ |
| 29 | There is a substantial crowd of Schillings contemporaries waiting on library shelves awaiting discovery , and I am sure Marco Polo will bring us some of these . |
| 30 | the times I 've tried for up to five minutes waiting for switchboard to answer |