Example sentences of "wait [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Greenford was in Middlesex and many was the night I spent in the pissing rain having walked to Acton Town station to wait for the first train home in the morning . |
| 2 | Sam , without any hesitation had agreed knowing that to wait for the first available fireman would delay his train 's departure . |
| 3 | As soon as the passport came through , Coleman should wait for the first convenient lull in the fighting in Beirut and then leave immediately . |
| 4 | In the all ticket days you could often wait for the first coach from Leeds to turn up and they would have 20+ tickets for us poor souls who could nt get one ! ! |
| 5 | In the all ticket days you could often wait for the first coach from Leeds to turn up and they would have 20+ tickets for us poor souls who could nt get one ! ! |
| 6 | They were made to stand and wait in the first of these . |
| 7 | The wise veterans nod their heads and wait for the first whistle . |
| 8 | Meanwhile as hospitals wait for the first evacuees … surgeons say they 'll work for nothing to save the sight of a ten year old bosnian boyu . |
| 9 | Turn left from the entrance and wait on the first corner . |
| 10 | Wait till the first night they thought , and watch ‘ Doctor Theatre ’ do his work . |
| 11 | The result is that many glider pilots are becoming complacent about parking and on a really windy day it is not unusual to see gliders at risk , just waiting for the first really big gust of wind to blow them over . |
| 12 | Together they were the opposite of women who will nod and nod as they pretend to listen to another , waiting for the first pause of breath to muscle in with the growing pains and glories of their own house , the impatience showing on their faces as they wait . |
| 13 | Horror-struck , she was rooted to the spot with terror , her eyes drawn to the top of the stairs , waiting for the first sign . |
| 14 | Sunday best pale and awkward teenagers , unsure and toughly giggly , sit around the central dance floor waiting for the first two or three to start dancing so that the rush can begin . |
| 15 | A few people were already astir in the first village they passed through , and when they reached the piazza in Pontino higher up a huddled group stood within the light and warmth of the doorway of the Bar Italia waiting for the first bus down to Florence . |
| 16 | there 's hundreds of French , Germans they 're waiting until the first of July and they 'll be in this country in a flash . |
| 17 | To do that operation , you are expected to wait until the first of the month to start planning the month . |
| 18 | He waited for the first time Phillis was out , and scored the record . |
| 19 | They waited for the first flight out of Iraq on which there were seats . |
| 20 | It was exciting — they were good advertisements , and we waited for the first children to come . |
| 21 | The healthy stayed away , or hovered sceptically at the back of the crowd , talking as they waited for the first miracle . |
| 22 | After a short discussion on the merits of the duck , he decided to join her ; and while they waited for the first course to arrive , he regaled her with a colourful account of that afternoon 's meeting in the history department to sort out the timetable . |
| 23 | As the sky slowly brightened and they waited , Fleury thought of how he and Harry had waited for the first attack of all at the beginning of June . |