Example sentences of "[vb mod] wait for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The spider may wait for developments sitting in the centre of the web or she may retreat to the side and lurk there with one of her eight legs resting on a cue-line through which she will feel movements in the trap . |
| 2 | If Raskolnikov was to have mounted an assault of something like Grand Inquisitor proportions , if he was to have expatiated on the whole God business not being worth the pain of one misused child , then the time was n't ripe ; we must wait for Ivan Karamazov . |
| 3 | ‘ Private Eye ’ must wait for decision over libel retrial |
| 4 | The Republic of Ireland beat Northern Ireland 3-0 , but Hungary 's draw with Spain means Jack Charlton 's team must wait for the arithmetic to be resolved . |
| 5 | They say we must wait for science to provide that proof . |
| 6 | At the same time , scientists are building computer models of ocean circulation but full three-dimensional models must wait for the next generation of powerful computers . |
| 7 | But the believer must wait for God 's time of deliverance ; he may think it long in coming — forgetting that God 's time is the best time . ’ |
| 8 | Sometimes children must wait for an empty chair at the milk table before they can sit down . |
| 9 | But you must wait for good weather to appreciate the mighty Picos de Europa range of mountains , just follow the river Deva through the dramatic La Hermida Defile ravine to the pretty Alpinesque town of Potes and on the Fuente Dé , where a cable car ascends the last 800 metres up to the sheer rock face . |
| 10 | Shiva thought , I must wait for more news , I must bear it and wait . |
| 11 | Instead Taylor and his players must wait for 10 weeks to build on the foundations laid against the Turks — but , in an attempt to maintain some continuity , Taylor is planning an unscheduled pre-Christmas get-together . |
| 12 | Older men are usually polygynous ; thus a youth rarely has available for marriage an age-mate female , and he must wait for a younger generation of females to mature before cohabitation with them . |
| 13 | Opposite Even during the brief rains daytime temperatures can be lethal , so even now the spadefoot toad must wait for nightfall before emerging from its burrow . |
| 14 | We must wait for the police . ’ |
| 15 | USL must wait for OSF/DCE 1.0.3 for this and is hoping to have something out at the end of 1993 or the beginning of 1994 . |
| 16 | ‘ We must wait for the strike to wear itself out , ’ as his private summary of his tactics . |
| 17 | The full discussion must wait for Chapter 5 but we can begin to get an insight into how this comes about when we consider the second property of quantum mechanical states . |
| 18 | I shall now go some of the way up this valley , as far as the Col du Tourmalet at the end of it — what lies on the far side of the col must wait for the section of this chapter on the valley of the Adour . |
| 19 | Rather , you must wait for the cigar that is — so to speak — ordained , to speak to you . |
| 20 | The King must wait for help while I fought his enemies . |
| 21 | ‘ Oh , you must wait for coffee , ’ said Bob , sobering and turning to signal to the young waiter . |
| 22 | What I could tell I have told , and the rest must wait for the light . |
| 23 | But the experience of this Spirit must wait for the disciples until after the death and resurrection of the man filled with the Spirit . |
| 24 | ‘ Now all we must wait for is the kettle . |
| 25 | For the decisive reassertion of these claims , we must wait for Nietzsche , Wagner 's young friend and admirer who , like Wagner himself , had the deepest respect for Schopenhauer 's ideas , but , unlike the composer , also possessed the capacity to reappraise those ideas and challenge them . |
| 26 | ‘ Father Reynard 's death , ’ he concluded , ‘ however distressing , must wait for a while . |
| 27 | The chute will be replaced but the swings must wait for a future allocation of money . |
| 28 | You must wait for the law . |
| 29 | For a real account of the BCR we must wait for Martin Davies 's definitive history , but although I have only included some of the anecdotes which crop up again and again , and a few photographs , many BCRS member have given invaluable assistance , and the presence of the Railway taken for granted throughout the time covered by ‘ BISHOP 'S CASTLE WELL-REMEMBERED ’ . |
| 30 | There are many difficulties involved , not least with regard to the application of the law , given that we must wait for the judgment of the European Court of Justice . |