Example sentences of "wait for this " in BNC.
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| 1 | The puzzle was that the times one had to wait for this to happen varied very greatly from nucleus to nucleus , despite there being only small changes in the circumstances involved . |
| 2 | He seems to have taken no part in public life under the Commonwealth , but when the Exchequer was re-established under the Protectorate he failed to regain his old post as auditor , having to wait for this until the Restoration , when he protested , perhaps predictably , that he had never really been a parliamentarian at all . |
| 3 | ‘ Poor Dora , she ca n't wait for this week to be over , ’ Melissa remarked . |
| 4 | Wait for this . |
| 5 | ‘ Then I have to stay here in hospital and just wait for this toxaemia thing to develop ? ’ asked Faye anxiously . |
| 6 | They had a long wait for this one , almost an hour . |
| 7 | Wait for this . |
| 8 | As everyone turned to look at him , Jinny realized that he had been waiting for this moment all the time he was explaining his plan . |
| 9 | We , the readers of the narrative , have been waiting for this moment ever since the concluding words of the book of Numbers : ‘ These are the commandments and the ordinances which the Lord commanded by Moses to the people of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I have been waiting for this , you know . |
| 11 | While waiting for this money to come through , he asked the owners if they would allow him to order goods for the coming summer season . |
| 12 | Anton though , as if waiting for this opening , Parker 's panic , caught him for his best bite yet , a chunk : with all of his teeth , his werewolf mouth , from high inside of a beefy thigh . |
| 13 | It was as if she had been waiting for this moment for four years or more . |
| 14 | Mr Justice Judge told Mrs Salmon , of Park Gate , Hants : ‘ I ca n't imagine what the last 10 years must have been like for you waiting for this to be sorted out . ’ |
| 15 | Dowd had been waiting for this man , Matthias McGann , to say his piece . |
| 16 | IBM was waiting for this decision and quickly became more aggressive at home and abroad . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've been waiting for this , ’ says Iain . |
| 18 | ‘ We 're still waiting for this body , ’ says the man with the braid from Tayside , the boys officially in charge . |
| 19 | She 'd be sitting at home waiting for this bloody man , who at best thought she was some kind of alien , and at worst , stark , staring mad . |
| 20 | She 'd been waiting for this moment for so long , and all she could do , now that it had finally arrived , was think the worst of him , instead of simply being happy to see him again . |
| 21 | I 've been waiting for this moment all week . |
| 22 | Alec d'Urberville , who had been waiting for this moment , appeared at her side . |
| 23 | I 've been waiting for this for so long that I do n't think I can wait any longer — ’ |
| 24 | ‘ On that Sunday evening , ’ Corbett asked , ‘ do you think Lady Eleanor was waiting for this lover ? |
| 25 | Tuesday — could it really be only Tuesday when now every cell of her body was alight with a feedback intelligence that told her she had been waiting for this man all her life … |
| 26 | All of her sweet , loving nature that she 'd turned in on herself , waiting for this one moment in her life , this moment of truth , and it had all been for nothing . |
| 27 | I 've been waiting for this chance since the days of the Witch of Endor . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've been biding my time waiting for this Ulster call , and was delighted when John Clarke gave me the nod , ’ he said . |
| 29 | It was as if Chambers bad been waiting for this admission . |
| 30 | On my right there is a sudden and implausible terrace of little bow-fronted villas from the early thirties , still waiting for this left-over country lane to grow up and get itself surfaced and turned into a bypass . |