Example sentences of "is wait for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | My advice for the less affluent Dizzy fans out there is to wait for Crystal Kingdom Dizzy ( see preview this issue ) , which looks to become the all-time bestest-ever eggstravaganza . |
| 3 | The usual advice is to wait for three menstrual cycles to go by , which is roughly the same as three months . |
| 4 | Now all that 's left to do is wait for Carry On Columbus to hit the cinemas in October . |
| 5 | All we can do is wait for it to pass through . |
| 6 | Now , all we can do is wait for his report and get on with more work . ’ |
| 7 | So all you 've got to do is wait for the Agreement to get signed . |
| 8 | ‘ At the time I wanted to weep or murder somebody , but now — ’ he shrugged pragmatic shoulders ‘ — all I can do is wait for the next time . ’ |
| 9 | But in the total picture if you take what a , any , an average American state spends and you ask the question what proportion of that money comes from the federal government , the answer is wait for it , the answer is about twenty percent . |
| 10 | Everyone is waiting for the Japanese . |
| 11 | What almost everyone is waiting for is the showdown between North and South Korea on Monday . |
| 12 | Shall I say what the Muse is waiting for now ? |
| 13 | Rezia is waiting for her son to come home from school . |
| 14 | And one of them is waiting for you . |
| 15 | He is waiting for the shares to be registered in Pembridge 's name . |
| 16 | Now the strings have gone slack , and he is waiting for the end . |
| 17 | This hamlet in northern Michigan is the Hollywood stereotype of a sleepy little town , but on this particular morning tension crackles in the air : everyone is waiting for the start of the day 's big event . |
| 18 | This is a time for action … the country is waiting for an inspiring lead on a programme of courageous national reconstruction . |
| 19 | This can actually produce those distressing occasions when , for example , a husband and wife are sitting there looking at each other , the dying one trying very hard to get on and die because they understand everyone is waiting for them to do so , and the survivor trapped with their feelings of guilt about wishing their relative would die , whilst at the same time not being able to leave the person 's side in case they miss the moment . |
| 20 | THE BEST of Britain 's outstanding scenery , from the wild Cornish coastline the Highland peaks , is waiting for travellers on Britain 's Scenic Railways . |
| 21 | This process , a little like blood-grouping , is used to match tissues from a donor with the tissues of a prospective patient who is waiting for a kidney transplant . |
| 22 | Home care for the stroke patient may be chosen because the patient 's doctor feels that the necessary rehabilitation can be done at home , or might be best done at home ; the patient may be more comfortable , and therefore more co-operative to treatment if he remains among familiar surroundings ; he might be liable to excessive stress if parted from his close family , friends or a beloved pet ; or it may be a temporary situation , in which the patient is waiting for a bed in a specialist rehabilitation unit to become available . |
| 23 | ‘ I just felt you should know that our spare room is waiting for you and Dimity when you return . ’ |
| 24 | The Johnny Mathis ‘ A Child is Born ’ disc also avoided this by fudging the identity of the infant — ‘ The world is waiting for one child … black , white , yellow ? … no one knows . ’ |
| 25 | Mercury is waiting for Telecom to connect its equipment with a private telephone exchange ( Telecom 's contracts specify that its engineers should carry out any work on telephone exchanges ) . |
| 26 | In the mules , by contrast , science is waiting for the animals , and all the hypotheses are testable by simple procedures . |
| 27 | It dare not come out , in case the source of the pain is waiting for it , and so it remains there , dying alone and in private . |
| 28 | He is waiting for his friend . |
| 29 | One is the occasional project that refuses to work ( although some consider that this is where the fun really starts ) , and the other is waiting for ‘ out of stock ’ components to arrive . |
| 30 | And I would willingly get down and help you , but Mrs Carson is waiting for me . ’ |