Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] wait [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She asked , ’ What is the NHS coming to , that I should have to wait in pain , discomfort and distress for my operation ? ’ |
| 2 | We 'll have to wait for permission from the expatriate lady in Sweden . ’ |
| 3 | Sorry , you 'll have to wait for daddy 's clear . |
| 4 | ‘ You 'll have to wait for morning . |
| 5 | Well she 'll have to wait till Easter that 's all , and when she comes back at Easter time |
| 6 | Mrs Thatcher replied that the government could have waited for inflation to come down . |
| 7 | Did you used to have wait at table as well ? |
| 8 | No half day Saturdays , half day Saturdays , yes and then er I , I used to stay waiting for mother to come and my sister er to do the shopping in Willenhall cos they would n't shop anywhere else , and then erm my brother used to come with his cycle and er I used to carry a lot of the shopping back and my brother used to push a lot on his , on his cycle and mother and my sister used to stay down and have another walk around , but we 'd got to walk it back I 'd come back on the wagonette so or just after the buses started but er I 'll never forget the first time the bus ran it was pouring with rain and my sister was standing in front of me and she 'd got a new mac on and of course we were getting very wet and there was a scramble to get on the bus and the lady in front of her had got a bag of flour and of course the bag burst and went all down her |
| 9 | A trade agreement provided for a reduction of customs duties on goods traded by the two countries ( thus extending most favoured nation status to the Soviet Union and improving the competitiveness of each country 's goods in the other 's markets ) ; the agreement also provided for better copyright protection for US companies and for reductions in the time US companies would have to wait for approval to begin commercial operations in the Soviet Union . |
| 10 | If I could n't find it , I would have to wait for morning and steer north by my watch and the sun . |
| 11 | If none of them proved correct they would have to wait until dawn and call out a helicopter , by which time it would probably be too late . |
| 12 | If Panin had had his way , peasants would have waited for land indefinitely . |
| 13 | Suggestive crop-marks at the point where the projected line of the defences meets the emerging east-west street have also been photographed from the air , but proof of another gate here will have to wait for excavation . |
| 14 | Bitstream are intending to get round this limitation by getting in league with the various page description language manufacturers and producing real-time fonts through their languages but as none of these are currently delivering we will have to wait in order to judge the result . |
| 15 | MITI had hoped to get the legislation through by next month , but it now looks as if it will have to wait until autumn before the ministries have talked it over . |
| 16 | As for the effects of the Act , an overall assessment of its impact on the use of custody will have to wait until Chapter 10 because of the need to deal also with the provisions relating to community penalties and parole . |