Example sentences of "wait [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lutton , reasonably happy with his performance in last weekend 's Irish trials in Dublin , accepts he may have to wait that little bit longer to gain Irish recognition . |
| 2 | no I know , they have to wait that 's it , got to be quite left in the shop today were n't we ? |
| 3 | But erm but he still had to wait that 's what 's crap . |
| 4 | One morning he woke up to discover the entire ‘ ARCHITECTURE ’ section stacked so high around his desk he had to wait half the day before pupils managed to free him . |
| 5 | The trick is to make the qualification time long enough so that the people who go to a club towards the end of their career and get large transfer bonuses do not qualify , but short enough for the players to feel that they will not have to wait half their lives to get theirs . |
| 6 | and we still have to wait half an hour ! |
| 7 | The two groups returned safely to Jalo , where they had to wait some time for news of Jock Lewes and Bill Fraser . |
| 8 | Then I had to wait some three years , and the attitude in hospital and lack of administrative efficiency was unpleasantly conspicuous . |
| 9 | The farmers had to wait some considerable time for compensation , and when it came it was not the expected bonanza . |
| 10 | They might have to wait some time … . |
| 11 | " Would n't it be better to wait some , Dad ? " yelled Chuck as his father reached a narrow defile between the thorns . |
| 12 | ‘ It is very enjoyable but one of the disadvantages is that when you start out you can be put low on a list after others and you may have to wait some time . |
| 13 | Others who may well have had reservations about him ( though we shall probably have to wait some time before their reflections can be made available to us ) were the oil-company spokesmen to whom he advanced new facts of life during the earnestly disputed discussions between OPEC and the major companies in Tehran in December 1973 . |
| 14 | There they had to wait some time until the Constable could find the key and lock the door on them . |
| 15 | It looks as if Mr Franklin and other shareholders will have to wait another three weeks for news on that front . |
| 16 | But that is a matter for an extensive argument which will have to wait another occasion . |
| 17 | The Roman Catholics had to wait another five years again , and I was already in Banbury when the Roman Catholic voluntary-aided secondary modern school was opened , in an odour of incense and the presence of an Archbishop . |
| 18 | Now I 've got to wait another month ’ . |
| 19 | But there was nothing that I or anyone else could do about it ; she , and we , had to wait another six months before she was finally gathered . |
| 20 | THREE Welshmen held in a Spanish jail for 17 months over the stabbing of a Turk were yesterday told they will have to wait another six months to be tried . |
| 21 | But , on this evidence , the 31-year-old former England international wo n't have to wait another ten months before linking up again . |
| 22 | City banks may have to wait another year or so . |
| 23 | But the Conservative conversion , at Disraeli 's prompting , to the cause of reform , had to wait another fifteen years . |
| 24 | We were to wait another six weeks before the fierce summer heat showed any sign of breaking . |
| 25 | Failing that , it would have to wait another twelve months . |
| 26 | ‘ Is that a promise , Chris , or will I have to wait another six months before I bump into you — literally ? ’ |
| 27 | Well lads , he says , I 'm sorry you 'll have to wait another hour . |
| 28 | He could n't bear to wait another day , but then the letter finished in a scrawl , messy and rushed , because , I suppose , they had to go and capture some hill or bit of wood . |
| 29 | If Dr Greene tells her it 's best to wait another four weeks for the sake of the baby , she 'll grit her teeth and wait another four weeks , ’ Belinda added . |
| 30 | The Defence budget would stand buying another catapult tomorrow ; my crossbow would just have to wait another week or so . |