Example sentences of "wait for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The benefit now is that a child can institute proceedings without having to wait for somebody else to do it , ' said Mr Kidd . |
| 2 | The wife used to wait for somebody coming in the shop to buy something and then she 'd go out and get a a bit of meat and we 'd have a dinner , and er we had seven months of that before I was eventually more or less forced to go back . |
| 3 | Lakeside resident Denton Bell said : ‘ Will we have to wait for somebody to die or for a building to burn down before something is done ? ’ |
| 4 | Even if other painters had to wait for their money , Zbo tried desperately hard to make sure that Modi did not go without . |
| 5 | To wait for their enemy , the ordinary people of Famagusta had made their way to the heart of the city , where the Cathedral soared like a vast triangled reliquary , flanked by princely buildings and faced , across the piazza , by the handsome , doorless shell of the Palace . |
| 6 | They demand more resources for the school in their areas : they complain vociferously if they have to wait for their operations ; they demand that the state intervene to subsidise the price of the rail tickets from their commuter homes to their work . |
| 7 | They were closely followed by the children who settled down to wait for their treasure trove . |
| 8 | At home , where an admiral 's powers were much more restricted , and even the most favoured officers could expect to have to wait for their promotion until the end of the admiral 's period of command , when it was customary to make him the compliment of a few promotions on striking his flag , it was still possible to introduce new entrants to a seagoing life . |
| 9 | They usually had to wait for their father to come home to decipher Davide 's news aloud to them . ) |
| 10 | With less reliable means of reaching the station , with perhaps less requirement for haste , and less opportunity to understand the timetables or gauge time by any other means than the sun , these passengers used all the patience of the peasant to wait for their appropriate train . |
| 11 | There was a row of five chairs where people sat to wait for their turn . |
| 12 | Accepting shareholders will have to wait for their cash for that period . |
| 13 | ‘ We now have to wait for their report . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ We now have to wait for their report . ’ |
| 15 | TWO Liverpool cousins who have become the first prison visitors awarded damages after a search ordeal will have to wait for their cash , following a Home Office decision to appeal against the award . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It was such an important discovery that the Mayor and Corporation were persuaded to inspect it the following afternoon and the whole village turned out to wait for them . |
| 18 | Westmacott then saw two ‘ red noses ’ coming up and thought they were from his own flight , as he called his pilots to rendezvous over Takali , going down through cloud to wait for them . |
| 19 | They had a long walk over the moor to Bingley and Alfred Carter could n't afford to wait for them if they were late . |
| 20 | Jesus took Peter , James and John into the garden , the rest of the disciples having been told to wait for them . |
| 21 | I told Morag ( Mrs McDougall was busy over the tide tables with Ann and Megan ) then went out to wait for them . |
| 22 | ‘ True , but we need a second Geiger counter and there is n't time to wait for them to send us another one . ’ |
| 23 | He dusted off a box and sat down to wait for them . |
| 24 | I was told to sit down for about five hours in a hall , to wait for them to call my name out , to go to see the doctor . |
| 25 | To wait for them . ’ |
| 26 | But the processing capability is in itself , no matter how good the program , only half the benefit ; the other half is derived from being able to get the answers when they are wanted and not have to wait for them . |
| 27 | We going to wait for them . ’ |
| 28 | He could afford to wait for them now , if he wanted . |
| 29 | Now if you come to Caldmore , you 'll find out then that the majority of the married ladies had worked in I mean I should say that erm I know my mother was very snooty she 'd been an apprentice to some dressmakers in Street and work for one year for nothing she always used to tell me , and she was quite er toffee- nosed about these girls that used that er that used to go , well they were very respectable people , and when I was a kid when I growing up in my teens a lot of the girls I used to know were in the offices at er it they employed about fifteen hundred people at in those days you know I mean coming out of at night it was fighting your way against the crowd if you were going towards it , and the same thing going through the square for people who have worked in when they left that 's why all those shops in the square used to do reasonably well , it was the people walking through to go up the other side of Walsall , but there was a crowd of people I can , I can always remember as a kid a crowd of people and then there 'd be well you can tell it was along Street in those days I can remember fruiters ' carts where the girls used to go and buy apples , and that all sort of going along there you know people used to wait for them coming out , these are my impressions as a kid I mean I can remember the , the er and the men of course were cutters and various people and a quite a lot of my father 's friends were , were er had er skilled jobs at as cutters and managers of the cutters ' department and that sort of thing . |
| 30 | Are all children and me , and adults who have been baptised members of the church ? is not or you 'll be actually encouraged or pressured to misinterpret the membership or should we wait for them to be informed er er , to wait for them to , to feel the ? |