Example sentences of "[verb] wait for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first Clare decided to wait for further information from Tess 's mother , but then he re-read the letter sent on to him in Brazil , written from Flintcomb-Ash : |
| 2 | However , that discussion will have to wait for another day . |
| 3 | A new motor car was for many a luxury that would have to wait for another day . |
| 4 | But I am afraid this will have to wait for another occasion . ’ |
| 5 | All is well , however , except that the 140 people on the island will have to wait for another occasion to exercise their democratic rights . |
| 6 | Managers who never leave do not have to wait for another manager to retire or die so that they can fill their shoes . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm sorry to disappoint you , but Hadrian and his wall will have to wait for another time . ’ |
| 8 | There were n't any houses then and there was a big ditch where the canal side and erm we used to have to wait for each other , because no street lamps , nothing at all like that and er really we used to be afraid and then when the first bus ran , shall I tell you this , when the first bus ran from , from Bloxwich to Willenhall of course word got around that the buses were beginning , because the roads were only ruts , they were n't tarmacked roads then and it was certainly gentlemen first for the first there were about three hundred waiting that was a lot of at the top is it Street , I think it 's that and all the gentlemen were first but we , some of us managed to scramble on , but erm then they used to break down very very often because the roads the roads were in such a terrible condition they were only ruts . |
| 9 | I had to wait for another performance to see . ’ |
| 10 | Fellow passengers had to wait for another train to continue their journey because the original train 's safety mechanism had jammed . |
| 11 | She had to wait for some time before the door was opened , and she hoped very much that it would be opened by Clelia , but it was not ; it was opened by a thin , brown , balding , youngish looking man . |
| 12 | Electrical stimulation could produce dramatic effects , but the proper study of electro-physiology had to wait for some time until it was possible to record small electrical potentials . |
| 13 | A packed hall had responded attentively to his intense , vocally elegant , performances of arias by Scarlatti , Stradella , Meyerbeer , Donizetti , Cilea and the Spanish composer Pablo Sorozabal , but with the opening instrumental strains of Catari in his first encore the vast audience suddenly burst into the kind of wildly enthusiastic applause that one had waited for all evening . |
| 14 | All through tea I had waited for some indication on his part that he knew I had seen the girl — as he must have known , for it was obvious that the nocturnal concert had been given to announce her presence . |
| 15 | He had his back to her and he stood waiting for another outburst , but when neither answer nor movement came to him he turned his head slowly and looked at her over his shoulder . |
| 16 | We have waited for some time for any scheme , let alone one that would justify being called better than the proposals of 1979 . |
| 17 | ‘ We have waited for this moment for 28 years . |
| 18 | Because they have waited for this moment . ’ |