Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to wait for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was passing over a hill when Idris drove past me , hooting , and pointing to the valley where he was obviously going to wait for me . |
| 2 | We only had to wait for five minutes for the first boooooom … and a second … and a third . |
| 3 | Customers are no longer prepared to wait for several months for their chosen pattern . |
| 4 | But until manufacturers and club professionals come to realise that a significant number play the game left-handed , the world of golf will just have to wait for its Gower , Seles , McEnroe and White . |
| 5 | I shall just have to wait for the next Guinness Book of Records for the answer . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'll just have to wait for Dad then , wo n't I ? ’ |
| 7 | Meanwhile , Pogo would just have to wait for an answer . |
| 8 | That tooth will just have to wait for California , along with everything else . |
| 9 | They 'll just have to wait for you . |
| 10 | This unexpected development was accompanied by a White House statement which said that " the nation can no longer afford to wait for Congress to act " on proposed legislation to allow inter-state banking . |
| 11 | Forbes thus had to wait for fifteen years or so before the coveted post came up ; during this time Jameson sometimes teetered but always recovered , and his courses and museum fell behind the times . |
| 12 | They no longer had to wait for the elusive Jennie to finish making a steak and kidney pudding before sanctioning an important business decision , but they had taken over in lean times and Doris began to find the strain intolerable . |
| 13 | I just have to wait for his letter , but I think the sensible thing to do would be to talk to you about what he 's putting you on because a lot of these drugs are not without potential side effects . |
| 14 | going down the right ? , five years old down the river was the first time ever but just have to wait for him ! |
| 15 | I look at r.s.s. every Saturday from about noon local time ( 5.00 pm Leeds time ) in the hope of getting the results asap and I normally have to wait for ages until info arrives . |
| 16 | on the other hand , a school with a high rate of staff turnover can not usually afford to wait for a consensus and readiness that may never come ; and a staff hand-picked in a new school , or for a new school situation such as amalgamation or unstreaming , is usually in a mood for bigger adventures . |
| 17 | They usually had to wait for their father to come home to decipher Davide 's news aloud to them . ) |
| 18 | To get anywhere near an understanding of News Corporation 's accounts , you usually have to wait for the figures it is obliged to file with America 's Securities and Exchange Commission . |
| 19 | It is n't difficult to calculate how long we should reasonably expect to wait for the random computer ( or baby or monkey ) to type METHINKS IT IS LIKE A WEASEL . |
| 20 | Service trades offer the opportunity to create jobs quicker because they fulfil a requirement that already exists , rather than attempting to create a market for a new product and often having to wait for factories to be built and machinery installed . |
| 21 | However , Coun. Mrs Town said the time restrictions would seriously hamper disabled people who often had to wait for lifts into town . |
| 22 | I think , I think we have to wait for the letter , I suspect you 'll probably find both those changed to some extent after that so er I think we really have to wait for that . |
| 23 | East Germans now have to wait for weeks or even months for replies to their applications for visas to Hungary , through which more than 31,000 have escaped since August . |
| 24 | ‘ We now have to wait for their report . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ We now have to wait for their report . ’ |
| 26 | We might well have to wait for six months before we found a prahu which was heading in the right direction . |
| 27 | ‘ Now that I know your ghost I do n't even have to wait for you to come home from the sea . ’ |
| 28 | I was a bit annoyed actually cos I even had to wait for him |
| 29 | They were meant to coincide so that travellers would have a smooth connection , but they rarely did , and the tea-houses and cheap hotels of Half a were swollen with travellers who invariably had to wait for days . |
| 30 | In fact he had fully intended to wait for a suitable moonlit warm right , but the trying events of the day had put him so out of sorts that he could stand the waiting no longer . |