Example sentences of "[verb] to wait [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prince Charles had intended to wait for Cumberland to attack , but after his troops had endured this merciless fire for 20 minutes or more one commander warned Lord George Murray that his men ‘ were turned so impatient that they were like to break their ranks ’ and the pretender agreed to an immediate attack . |
| 2 | The Security Council agreed to wait until March 10 before deciding action . |
| 3 | But with the confidence of youth she does not want to wait beyond Barcelona for her first Games medal . |
| 4 | By 1908 Wilson noted that the 1,000 or so Chinese seamen shipped at United Kingdom ports in 1905 had increased by 1907 to 5,000 and a deputation of 40 seamen was organised to wait upon Winston Churchill , then President of the Board of Trade . |
| 5 | we 've been slightly more amenable but invite to your club temerity to ask your Lordship rather me , but as I 'm on my feet , er ask your Lordship whether you could sit at all early on Friday as to help Mr er , I , I was little concerned to hear Mr say that he was going to wait for Mr he had responded because that would of course then extend more into Friday , it may be more sensible if Mr could have |
| 6 | that means Ann had got to wait till April cheque . |
| 7 | One clubs , Wasps , decided to wait until Saturday to make their decision , much to the annoyance of their opponents , Harlequins , who had forked out £1,500 for an overnight stay in a hotel . |
| 8 | In any case , Sparta was evidently up to something big ; unable , after disciplining Phokis , to return overland — the Athenians now possessed Megara , it must be remembered , also Pegai , a strategically useful port on the Corinthian Gulf — they decided to wait in Boiotia for a while . |
| 9 | That tooth will just have to wait for California , along with everything else . |
| 10 | Yet , Empirical Socialism did not have to wait for Keynes to propound the idea of demand-led growth as the solution to the recurrent crises in Capitalism . |
| 11 | They would have to wait for Bert and Jasper to help him . |
| 12 | I 'll have to wait for Miss Needham-Burrell . ’ |
| 13 | This means that you do n't have to wait for WSP to read all the text on any page and then edit out the unwanted bits , but can tell it exactly what you want read in the first place . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'll have to wait for Jeff to phone , that 's all . ’ |
| 15 | But they say the best pilots start young and David Leech will have to wait till August for his first solo . |
| 16 | Under this system students are also able to graduate as soon as they have met the requirements of an award and do not have to wait until July each year . |
| 17 | All ship only with Open VMS initially : the shade of Ken Olsen still hovers , and if you want OSF/1 Unix , you 'll have to wait until March . |
| 18 | Leeds , UK-based VisionWare Ltd is supposed to announce its fourth product at Xhibition this week , but since it has taken a vow of silence everyone will have to wait until Thursday to find out what 's going on . |
| 19 | Though Eridania Béghin-Say , Ferruzzi 's agribusiness arm , and Edison , its power company , are doing well , new investment may have to wait until Carlo Sama , Mr Gardini 's successor , has paid off some debt . |
| 20 | And so the wish-lists of Arran , Cumbrae , Cowal , the rest of Argyll and west Moray — where the Highland MEP , Winnie Ewing , has a home — will have to wait until June , when the heavily lobbied council of ministers finally approve — or not — what could be more than £20 million a year for the Highlands and Islands . |
| 21 | It will have to wait until Monday . ’ |
| 22 | He would have to wait until Monday to find out if the offer was still open . |
| 23 | It seems as though you may run into opposition , either from the powers that be or the effects of economic cutbacks , and you may have to wait until November before this pattern changes . |
| 24 | She sat with her until the exhaustion of grief finally drove Ana to sleep and silence , then Maggie went to wait for Felipe . |
| 25 | Alexei had risen before the sun broke the horizon , and because he was engaged to wait upon Jehana at the house of her father — a public display to advertise the fact of their intended betrothal which was designed , he guessed , to make it believable — he was among the first to witness the damage which the teams of wrights and carpenters now laboured to repair . |
| 26 | ‘ I offered to bring her back again but she said she had to wait for Angharad . ’ |
| 27 | He struggled towards an understanding of continuity , though the work had to wait for Newton and Gottfried Leibnitz to produce an infinitesimal calculus to master this difficulty . |
| 28 | DR 's GEM was happily running on Intel 8088-powered XT machines whilst Bill Gates had to wait for Tandy 's Intel 80186 processor powered PC , just to make version 1.0 of Windows run efficiently . |
| 29 | ‘ Sorry to be so long — I had to wait for Tom to finish a phone call . ’ |
| 30 | Soviet policy with regard to Eastern Europe was sloganised as ‘ development in groups ’ , as though we had to wait for Mongolia to catch up before we could be allowed to develop . |