Example sentences of "[be] wait until " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prior to the conference , the US official line has been to wait until a link between carbon dioxide and global warming became proven . |
| 2 | It yes , certainly at the moment we 're not quite sure what the future will bring and we 're waiting until after Easter before we make our final decisions and announcements . |
| 3 | ‘ I was so astonished that I 've been waiting until people started to come to church so that I could show somebody and you 're the first and most suitable . |
| 4 | We are waiting until they crash land and that is no good . ’ |
| 5 | The danger is that many businesses are waiting until there is a problem , or even a crisis , to be sorted out before they ask for advice from a solicitor — as said : ‘ Regrettably , lawyers are seen as a cure , not a preventative ’ — and it is the smaller , more vulnerable business that falls into it most . |
| 6 | I am waiting until a head of my wife is dry before sending you — with the ones you know about — four canvases . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm to wait until I 'm called , ma'am , ’ Midnight said politely . |
| 8 | I 'm waiting until my mother gets back from her cruise . ’ |
| 9 | I 'm waiting until , I 'm not thinking about the prices of anywhere until I 've sold . |
| 10 | ‘ We will be interviewing him about what happened but obviously he is in no fit state for us to talk to him yet and we will be waiting until he is well enough , ’ a police spokesman said . |
| 11 | Most auction companies appear to be waiting until the transfer legislation is in place before they too offer sheep quota — and they expect most of 1993 trading to concentrate on leasing . |
| 12 | ‘ Sweetie , you know I said if there was anything heavy that needed doing you were to wait until I got in and I 'd do it . |
| 13 | Another treatment is to wait until the initial set has taken place , and then , using water and a brush , clean off all the fine material , to expose the larger aggregate . |
| 14 | Perhaps the easiest , if not the earliest way to identify the people who are not coping with recent events is to wait until their distress brings them into contact with health or social services . |
| 15 | All you can do is wait until your stepfather gets the will admitted to probate . |
| 16 | All we have to do is wait until this day is over . ’ |
| 17 | I think the best we can do is wait until we find them . ’ |
| 18 | Terry 's winning touch as a trainer was to wait until his devotees were in extremis on their final set of 50 press-ups , then announce sweetly , ‘ Do n't forget to smile . ’ |
| 19 | His plan was to wait until Pearman had left , and then creep up on the baker 's young wife , knock her unconscious with the cudgel , and be off with the takings . |
| 20 | The Colonel , trained in the proper management of war , diagnosed the General 's crude enthusiasm as excitement and gently tried to calm the old man by explaining that the sensible course was to wait until the artillery reached the town , and only then to mount an attack on the infantry who guarded the barricaded bridge . |
| 21 | The arrangement was to wait until after six because that was when the cheap rate started . |
| 22 | I sorted through my frocks but could find none that fitted me ; I 'd outgrown them all and was waiting until I 'd grown into Liza 's castoffs . |
| 23 | ‘ I was waiting until it was definite . ’ |
| 24 | From the way his eyes kept darting to and fro she guessed that he had something more important to say and that he was waiting until Eleanor was safely out of sight and earshot . |