Example sentences of "[noun] wait for [noun] " 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 | But his omission is because no northern commissions were appointed — something more likely to reflect a readiness to wait for Gloucester 's advice than an intention to snub him . |
| 4 | But his omission is because no northern commissions were appointed — something more likely to reflect a readiness to wait for Gloucester 's advice than an intention to snub him . |
| 5 | The next morning I got up at 7.30 am and had breakfast , got changed and got into the car to wait for Rachel , Betty , Paul and David . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Bottomley mum 3-hour wait for op |
| 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 | Bottle-necks were not restricted to the railways ; at the end of March twentyfive ships lay in Reval harbour waiting for berths . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Wards 14 and 15 still had guards waiting for tuberculosis cures . |
| 12 | on their backsides waiting for nuts |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Compaq Computer Corp and its 80486 interests , not any technical or manufacturing woes , are behind Intel Corp 's decision to delay the Pentium until May , BusinessWeek claims : well , schucks , that 's not what we hear — our sources , who are cooling their heels waiting for chips , continue to think that Intel is having problems making the parts in quantity ; given the new timetable , it still says samples should be more available than they are . |
| 15 | Our sources , who are cooling their heels waiting for chips , continue to think Intel is having problems making the parts . |
| 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 | I can t wait for Marie to be finished here so we can walk down the street in our new clothes . |
| 18 | Why are we Leaving ? is a related subject , portraying the condition of refugees waiting for deliverance . |
| 19 | I mean , what we 're trying to do in the visual arts is to spend what limited money we have to produce a better situation for the visual artist and for the public who gets pleasure and enlightenment from visual arts than exists at the moment , so rather than just prop up the status quo , which is what is would be very easy to do if one just kept the pot boiling so to speak by giving a few grants to artists here and sitting at the centre of a spider 's web in Tunbridge Wells waiting for applications to come in to us and then responding . |
| 20 | Previously he had to spend an hour at a transit warehouse near Lyons waiting for clearance . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Error waiting for LIFESPAN mail message |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It reminded her again of the woman who had drifted from window to window waiting for Luke — her unadorned face , the limp that made one shoulder dip as she hurried to meet him . |
| 25 | It is seen at Harman 's Cross waiting for passengers to arrive off the train to take them on to Corfe Castle . |
| 26 | He was perched precariously on the very edge of the precipice waiting for puffins to fly past , and when one came within reach he swung his long-handled fleygastong ( which is like a landing-net on the end of a four-metre pole ) to intercept the bird . |
| 27 | I have the husband and the child waiting for lunch . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Rugby Union : Stephens adds Scarlet colour : Welshmen waiting for tourists find hope in rehearsals as Llanelli and Swansea prosper , but others offer cannon-fodder |
| 30 | Enveloped by a thin and slightly sweet-smelling mist , the Marines waited for orders . |