Example sentences of "[conj] wait for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was wondering whether he ought to start going through the clothes at once , or wait for Sergeant Burgess , when an attendant came to say that the sergeant had arrived . |
| 2 | It will be an expensive detour for users — it is much simpler to either buy Windows now or wait for Windows NT which promises links into Unix . ’ |
| 3 | It will be an expensive detour for users — it is much simpler either to buy Windows now , or wait for Windows NT , which promises links into Unix . ’ |
| 4 | My dad was tied up with Dickens or waiting for General Franco to turn up . |
| 5 | And those in power ( or waiting for power ) are not about to suggest alternatives . |
| 6 | The wisdom of selecting can often be appreciated when visiting old orchards , when it is necessary to either pick the apples using a ladder or waiting for windfalls . |
| 7 | Ben and Elizabeth found themselves doing what many others did in a similar predicament — rather than wait for banns to be read , they married by licence . |
| 8 | in West Yorkshire — stresses the need for preventive measures to identify potential offenders at an early stage , rather than wait for tragedies to occur ? |
| 9 | It may happen sometimes that the patient may wish to end his life , rather than wait for death . |
| 10 | Rather than waiting for inspiration he is shown with a pen in his hand , an unfinished manuscript on the table , and at his side a harpsichord on which we are to imagine him playing through the work in progress . |
| 11 | When Luv opened at the Booth Theater in 1964 ( with Wallach , Jackson and Arkin ) , Walter Kerr over-enthusiastically claimed it was better than Waiting for Godot . |
| 12 | Are you willing to be loving towards yourself and others , to seek love by being love , rather than waiting for others to love you first ? |
| 13 | For example , some local authorities produce their financial statements very quickly ; on the other hand , they are able to do this by including more estimates of accrued expenditure rather than waiting for invoices to come in . |
| 14 | Do you just sit around and wait for inspiration ? ’ |
| 15 | Such is the relief of producing the final report that there is a great temptation to sit back and wait for congratulations . |
| 16 | From here she could watch and wait for take-off , count the bombers out , bless them on their way . |
| 17 | Yet the alternative , to sit and wait for help that might never arrive , was terrifying . |
| 18 | If it was n't there already , the impact of recession has spurred awareness in the corporate law sector that you ca n't just sit and wait for clients to come to your door with their next little legal exercise . |
| 19 | Yet actors here think they can just sit around and wait for jobs . |
| 20 | Well I appreciate you deny it because er you said in answer to my friend that erm as I am required by rules to put it , er I do put to you that yes , you did have a shotgun , perhaps erm borrowed from one of the officers , yes you did put it to Mr head and you did tell him to er er shut up and wait for C I D. |
| 21 | But a king could not simply sit back and wait for people to come to him . |
| 22 | and wait for absorption . |
| 23 | But this issue has not been the subject of legislation , nor previously been considered by this court or the House of Lords , and in such circumstances the alternatives are either to dismiss the appeal despite the relevance of article 10 and wait for Parliament to reconsider the state of the law ; or , as the courts have from time to time demonstrated their ability and willingness to do , venture into relatively unchartered waters and declare the present state of the law . |
| 24 | If you can not be sure of handling the glider safely , turn it out of the wind , hold the wing down and wait for help . |
| 25 | You could consider the wide variety of third-party alternatives or kill two birds with one stone and wait for MS-DOS 6 . |
| 26 | Soon , Rob would take S-Sugar on to the runway and wait for clearance from the control tower . |
| 27 | America will win , it is thought , and win handily enough that it will not want to withdraw from Asia : so China , Japan , whoever , should pursue its own interests and wait for things to return to normal . |
| 28 | not content to sit at home and wait for things to happen to her . |
| 29 | Yes , ah well the thing to do is to er go down and hi , hire a Daily Mirror van and wait for Mrs to arrive ! |
| 30 | From the open door of the shed he had a good view of Firelight grazing and she got to know where he was and would come up to the hedge close by and wait for titbits . |