Example sentences of "[verb] to wait a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Would you prefer to wait a moment , to collect your thoughts and prepare yourself spiritually ? ’ asked the ambience . |
| 2 | ‘ On a long journey this may be reasonable , but if you are travelling a short distance you do n't want to wait an hour . |
| 3 | I expected to wait a while for a spawning , but within two weeks they surprised me . |
| 4 | Instead he has to wait a week for next Saturday 's Victoria Ground clash with Swansea . |
| 5 | At the beginning of the 1980 's a typeface would have cost around $4,500 and you would probably have had to wait a couple of weeks while it was digitised from some master copy . |
| 6 | ‘ You 're going to wait a while ? |
| 7 | Apparently , it was while climbing D.P. that he spotted a new line on the buttress , but decided to wait a while and link it with another new route he had in mind for the Central Pillar of Freney . |
| 8 | But I decided to wait a while before speaking . |
| 9 | Look , you 'll have to wait a minute while I get some gloves . |
| 10 | You want biscuits , well we 've got some biscuits , but you 'll just have to wait a minute , I ca n't unpack everything now , alright , right let's see if we can find the car Get you two in the car first I think , right then , oh , what a heavy trolley full of food Oh dear , dear , dear , will you please put your feet down Charlotte , stop me being kicked . |
| 11 | two two erm thingies two Jaffa Cakes two ba box of Jaffa Cakes and Mini Cheddars then I 'll have to wait a minute please have to wait again , and then a Coke er erm er er er erm doo doo . |
| 12 | to pick him he 's , he went out , he said I said to them , you 'll have to wait a minute my mother ai n't been very well , and I was ironing his shirt , he wo n't nothing to do |
| 13 | for ya , well we could , you 'll have to wait a minute now |
| 14 | Positive thinking will have to wait a while , but it augurs well for one of the young ringsiders who turned up in his smartest suit and said : ‘ What a disgusting fight ; I wish I 'd worn my tracksuit . ’ |
| 15 | Although the plant will have the capability to make it , low-calorie frozen yogurt — that most decadent of Western desserts — may have to wait a while . |
| 16 | If indeed , as Le Figaro magazine has said , AIDS is a ‘ world war ’ , the definitive account of the war will have to wait a while . |
| 17 | ‘ I think you 'll have to wait a while before you get another chance to be captain . ’ |
| 18 | It is left to Minerva to give a more balanced view ; reporting on a large trial of the same drug she notes ‘ men hoping for a drug treatment for benign prostatic hypertrophy will have to wait a while longer … small improvements in a urinary flow rate and a small reduction in the size of the gland have to be balanced against negative effect on both libido and potency . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Did n't you warn Jones that he 'd have to wait a while ? ’ |
| 20 | But the next episode of this little soap opera will have to wait a while . |
| 21 | FILM star Jenny Seagrove will have to wait a while yet for her Grand Opera House debut . |
| 22 | they want somebody to go down so we could have but a bit but , mum cos he said well you 'll have to wait a while ! |
| 23 | CHRIS Patten may have to wait a year or two before he returns to the Commons . |
| 24 | Usually in the Labour party any other organization you 're gon na have to wait a year but the women did n't . |
| 25 | So he might get his wall built but he might have to wait a year before he starts it . |
| 26 | We had an officer here wanting you to make a statement , but he 'll have to wait a couple of days . |
| 27 | Do n't think to yourself that you will have to wait a week for that garter stitch sweater — that 's the negative approach . |
| 28 | I leave at 7.30am and by 8am have checked Skipper over and given him a small handful of feed in his manger ( which seems to keep him happy when other horses are fed and means I do n't have to wait an hour for him to digest a full feed ) . |
| 29 | He had the good grace to apologise afterwards and I also expressed my gratitude that I did not have to wait an hour or so until the training was finished before I could obtain his team and get busy . |
| 30 | Erm the old on that you know , took me two years to get the bearings approved and er you know but then having to wait a year and a half cos had a year and a half 's worth of orders on 'em and promised to hold the price for three years is that 's what it took for them to use them up , er has run out , new orders have been put on but I 've got the chance of taking the business . |