Example sentences of "wait for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you wait for inspiration it may be more difficult for the Careers Service to give constructive advice . |
| 2 | wait for whisky and lemon |
| 3 | It means Aylesbury Vale Health Authority will now be able to comply will the new patients charter , which says a 2 year wait for treatment should be the maximum . |
| 4 | Look I 'll give that to Joan and Joan can give it to you , watch it , you do n't steel , no , no , you do n't take things , you wait till it 's given to you , no I 'm watching you do n't you dare beg at me , do n't you dare , do n't you dare , wait for Joan to give it to you |
| 5 | Security police wait for boot as people 's power arrives . |
| 6 | Yeah we 've just got now wait for solicitors an an and the mortgage . |
| 7 | and wait for absorption . |
| 8 | America will win , it is thought , and win handily enough that it will not want to withdraw from Asia : so China , Japan , whoever , should pursue its own interests and wait for things to return to normal . |
| 9 | not content to sit at home and wait for things to happen to her . |
| 10 | The trouble is my theory 's looking shakier all the time because McDunn 's convinced me it really was all just a smoke-screen : there is no Ares project , never was any Ares project , and Smout in his prison in Baghdad is n't connected to the guys that died ; it was just somebody coming up with a clever conspiracy theory , just a way of getting me to go to remote places and wait for phone calls and deprive me of an alibi while gorilla man did something horrible to somebody else somewhere else . |
| 11 | I wait for Agnes and , if I really pretend , she will come and stand with me . |
| 12 | You could consider the wide variety of third-party alternatives or kill two birds with one stone and wait for MS-DOS 6 . |
| 13 | Drugs wait for Russia |
| 14 | Soon , Rob would take S-Sugar on to the runway and wait for clearance from the control tower . |
| 15 | They have heavy bodies , and sit and wait for prey to come to them , striking with unerring accuracy and speed at any small mammal as it passes . |
| 16 | Yes , ah well the thing to do is to er go down and hi , hire a Daily Mirror van and wait for Mrs to arrive ! |
| 17 | The community radio stations remain silent as they wait for laws to be passed to allow them to operate . |
| 18 | An infra-red detection system could put an end to a long wait for cyclists . |
| 19 | Its marbled , fine-grained beef is of very good quality and taste and it is well worth the rather long wait for maturity in spite of the lack of size . |
| 20 | WAIT FOR IT , I 'M A MUM |
| 21 | ‘ Wait for Elizabeth , ’ she commanded him . |
| 22 | The child who uses goed or comed is guilty of over-generalisation , while in sign the use of repetition to convey occurrence over a long time would be appropriate in WAIT-WAIT-WAIT , meaning ‘ wait for ages ’ but not in KEEP-KEEP-KEEP , where it would probably mean to ‘ keep three ’ things rather than to ‘ keep over time ’ . |
| 23 | They had planned to fly out to South Africa but had a long wait for visas . |
| 24 | Pepito had advised Trent to return to Belpan and wait for affairs to break into the open . |
| 25 | This should reduce the average wait for notes from 20 weeks to 4.6 weeks . |
| 26 | Instead , the computer enters an idle or " wait for interrupt " state ; the full halt is then provided only by manual intervention . |
| 27 | Bottomley mum 3-hour wait for op |
| 28 | From the open door of the shed he had a good view of Firelight grazing and she got to know where he was and would come up to the hedge close by and wait for titbits . |
| 29 | But this issue has not been the subject of legislation , nor previously been considered by this court or the House of Lords , and in such circumstances the alternatives are either to dismiss the appeal despite the relevance of article 10 and wait for Parliament to reconsider the state of the law ; or , as the courts have from time to time demonstrated their ability and willingness to do , venture into relatively unchartered waters and declare the present state of the law . |
| 30 | If you can not be sure of handling the glider safely , turn it out of the wind , hold the wing down and wait for help . |