Example sentences of "[verb] to wait [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact he had fully intended to wait for a suitable moonlit warm right , but the trying events of the day had put him so out of sorts that he could stand the waiting no longer . |
| 2 | At a corner he stopped to wait for a break in the traffic . |
| 3 | Every time he has to wait for a question , he claims victory . |
| 4 | Each call sent out by a client has to wait for a response before another is sent . |
| 5 | Each call sent out by a client has to wait for a response before another is sent . |
| 6 | An announcement in May confirming the selection of Glasgow removed earlier uncertainty , although final confirmation has to wait for a further consultation period until the end of June . |
| 7 | What happens if Well , oh sa , pwurgh , I do n't know , I mean she has to wait for a week . |
| 8 | This puts industry off voluntary controls and it tends to wait for a law to be brought in . |
| 9 | Ebert , Fest and I. We were after the assassins of the T'ang 's Minister , Lwo Kang , and had been told to wait for a contact from our Triad connections there . |
| 10 | I decided to wait for a review — you know what Microsoft 's other support lines are like . |
| 11 | To find its most lasting realization , Charlie 's vision would have to wait for a bank clerk who did understand metempsychosis , and who had not only a commercial education gained in an underground room at Lloyds Bank , but also a knowledge of Greek . |
| 12 | Last Friday the civil servant in charge of government policy on radioactive waste management reiterated Whitehall 's position that a solution to the disposal issue would have to wait for a future generation . |
| 13 | I remarked to my friend , ‘ You 'd have to wait for a long time to get a train from here , ’ he smiled and we both set off for the youth hostel down the road . |
| 14 | On February 27 she was told only a heart transplant would save her husband 's life and they would have to wait for a donor . |
| 15 | But they may have to wait for a year , and maybe even two , before the brief , dramatic cycle can begin all over again . |
| 16 | At Darlington , so that they would not have to wait for a connection , they had hired a special train to Richmond , where they were met . |
| 17 | It would have to wait for a more opportune time , she decided , and replaced the receiver . |
| 18 | But the point of our ‘ numbers of planets ’ argument is that , even if the chemist said that we 'd have to wait for a ‘ miracle ’ , have to wait a billion billion years — far longer than the universe has existed , we can still accept this verdict with equanimity . |
| 19 | Will he beef up the public consultation procedures which his Department are currently casting aside like autumn leaves shrivelling on the ground , or do we have to wait for a Labour Government in the full flush of a green spring and summer to bring sense back into our planning system ? |
| 20 | Will we have to wait for a Labour Government before positive action is taken ? |
| 21 | I also think that erm it 's up to erm us — I mean if you think of us as a whole travel industry — to really take a look at what we are providing and compare it with what is provided in other countries ; the standards of service , how long do you have to wait for a meal when you 're sitting down to eat in a restaurant , what are people used to in France and Germany and the USA ? |
| 22 | Just nine first and you dial straight through , you do n't have to wait for a secondary dialling tone do you ? |
| 23 | IF tomorrow 's semi-final between Liverpool and Portsmouth at Highbury requires a replay , it will have to wait until a week on Monday , because of Thursday 's General Election . |
| 24 | Does the Minister agree with the view therefore , that nurses that nurses should be given the authority to admit patients to hospital provided there is a bed without having to wait for a decision to be to be made by a doctor ? |
| 25 | I went to the castle and was asked to wait in a comfortable room . |
| 26 | Can I afford to wait for a young child to discover such procedures ? |
| 27 | on the other hand , a school with a high rate of staff turnover can not usually afford to wait for a consensus and readiness that may never come ; and a staff hand-picked in a new school , or for a new school situation such as amalgamation or unstreaming , is usually in a mood for bigger adventures . |
| 28 | Plus of course the attendant horrors for someone normally so well-groomed to have to wait for a face plastered with scabs and unshaveable stubble to heal . |
| 29 | Harriet was allowed to wait in a small ante-room until the verdict was brought in . |
| 30 | But they had to wait for a host of their rivals to commit pop suicide before they could begin the job of moulding this new discovery . |