Example sentences of "wait for " in BNC.

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1 This Friday Geraldine settled down to wait for Newsnight .
2 ‘ I 'll have to wait for Jeff to phone , that 's all . ’
3 However the moment it slips you have to wait for the chain to gain momentum before cutting can recommence , otherwise it bites again .
4 Speed of response can be set over a range of five steps , and may well have to be reset because , particularly in graphics mode , if it is too sensitive , loading up several movement commands into the buffer will require having to wait for them to clear .
5 East Germans now have to wait for weeks or even months for replies to their applications for visas to Hungary , through which more than 31,000 have escaped since August .
6 Trevor East , the new producer of The Match , explains the decision to wait for late autumn : ‘ People are reluctant to watch televised football or anything else on a sunny afternoon .
7 To find its most lasting realization , Charlie 's vision would have to wait for a bank clerk who did understand metempsychosis , and who had not only a commercial education gained in an underground room at Lloyds Bank , but also a knowledge of Greek .
8 But Greenford was in Middlesex and many was the night I spent in the pissing rain having walked to Acton Town station to wait for the first train home in the morning .
9 In other words , Mrs Thatcher is prepared to wait for opportunities .
10 She called to Hermione and Joanna and all the girls who had gone already along the paths she had rejected , called to them to wait for her and place their steady walking boots on solid earth to catch her .
11 Aszal had all the documents required from a returning immigrant , but he was questioned for four hours and made to wait for four hours and then told he could go .
12 She was heavily pregnant but she was questioned and made to wait for the next twelve hours without food or water .
13 We 'll have to wait for permission from the expatriate lady in Sweden . ’
14 ‘ Pertwee told me to wait for Charlie Hatton , ’ Cullam said .
15 Sir Leon said there was no need for the United Kingdom to wait for its inflation rate to reach the European average before joining the exchange rate mechanism , nor to hold back until the further removal of capital and exchange controls next summer .
16 Equally , Penny remains on one level as a deluded fantasist who believes , very like an Iranian woman , that a wife 's duty is to wait for her husband 's return from the wars .
17 Dr Higenbottam , who is attending a two-day symposium of the British Thoracic Society in London , said : ‘ There is only a finite number of human organs available because we have to wait for someone to die .
18 Williams , who beat Trevor Currie on Tuesday night to add the European championship to his Commonwealth title , may have to wait for his shot at the British champion , though Mason rises to his former sparring partner 's rhetoric .
19 Though debt-for-equity swaps represent one way for banks to recover part of their developing country debt exposure , they still stand to lose money and look likely to have to wait for some years before they can cash in their equity stakes .
20 MOST ordinary investors in water shares will have to wait for at least another week — and probably until after Christmas — before they can sell .
21 But most ordinary investors will have to wait for at least another week — and probably until after Christmas — before they can sell .
22 Williams , who beat Trevor Currie on Tuesday night to add the European championship to his Commonwealth title , may have to wait for his shot at the British champion , though Mason rises to his former sparring partner 's rhetoric .
23 More sweeping changes to deal with the threat of global warming will have to wait for the Government 's environment white paper under discussion in cabinet committee .
24 We are not allowed to know just yet , for the London Underground rule book tells drivers to wait for 30 minutes before making an announcement , unless they 've received a message to the contrary from their controllers or there is some ‘ immediate threat to safety . ’
25 So , no sooner did the record go into the charts and we were going ‘ yeah , this is it — hooray — we 're taking off ’ , they dropped the record and we had to wait for the guys to come back to earth .
26 To get anywhere near an understanding of News Corporation 's accounts , you usually have to wait for the figures it is obliged to file with America 's Securities and Exchange Commission .
27 How long would America have had to wait for the Community to pull all its members behind a common policy ?
28 Not that they can afford to wait for long .
29 Forty years may be a long time to wait for a 19p basic rate of tax .
30 So the argument that Mr Major needs only to wait for the inevitable victory , after the inevitable economic recovery , should be taken with a fistful of salt .
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