Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] to wait a " in BNC.
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1 | I expected to wait a while for a spawning , but within two weeks they surprised me . |
2 | But I decided to wait a while before speaking . |
3 | I had to wait a long time for an answer , and just before the door opened I nearly came sufficiently to my senses to run away , but sanity came too late . |
4 | I had to wait a long time shut in . |
5 | And I was a bit late , so I had to wait a long time to get served . ’ |
6 | I have to wait a while before I get a second chub , but it is worth it for this one weighs 4lb 10oz and fights like a demon . |
7 | I do n't too much like warm toast , I have to wait a little bit . |
8 | Do you want to come back on that Mr or do you want to wait a few moments ? |
9 | ‘ Would you prefer to wait a moment , to collect your thoughts and prepare yourself spiritually ? ’ asked the ambience . |
10 | This is no comfort for a patient who has to wait a few months ( in the past , waiting times in some centres were over two years ) but is perhaps a more rational means of distributing limited health care resources than the random waiting lists used in the past , when patients were given fairly arbitrary degrees of priority . |
11 | She seemed to wait a long time before she heard footsteps within , and then a light sprang up beyond the frosted glass . |
12 | But there are particular areas like this , you having to wait a long time and if you come into the building to go and see a film and you 've you 've left an hour to , to have some food you , you really should n't be missing the film because |
13 | Yeah oh yeah I did n't work anywhere else in Willenhall at all , and erm but we 'd got to be in for seven o'clock and if erm you were n't in for seven o'clock and sometimes I used to hear the bell began ringing when I got to go around the corner and get into the , but you had to wait a quarter of an hour before they would let you in and that was stopped off your money and my wage was eight and fourpence a week . |
14 | As my hon. Friend rightly pointed out , no patient in his area waits for more than two years and there has been a dramatic fall in the number of those who have to wait a year . |
15 | But arrivals follow departures and the new appears very promising — even if you have to wait a little time for it . |
16 | She added : ‘ Even if you have to wait a year , it 's a long time if you 're worried about it . ’ |
17 | Oh I see , yes , you have to wait a few minutes . |
18 | You have to wait a minute ! |
19 | you have to wait a few days for it to clear do n't ya ? |
20 | She explained that with some people one had to wait a long time before one saw what one wanted to see . |
21 | 1976 , it may be remembered , was the year of the great drought , and we had to wait a frustrating three months until there was rain in sufficient quantity and enough water in the river to try it out . |
22 | We had to wait a long time because I had my mother to look after and she was rather difficult . ’ |
23 | So if , as seems likely , we have to wait a long time for a follow up to the triumphant Glyndebourne production , we should be all the more grateful for occasions like the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra 's concert performance ( sponsored by English Estates ) . |
24 | There was no proper funeral , as there had been no proper wedding ceremony ; they simply hauled the waterlogged body onto a bonfire of driftwood , and even though the sea wind at dawn had made the fire hot enough to break the stones of the beach , it was six hours before the body was gone , and then they had to wait a whole day before they could rake the ashes for his bones and send them to her . |
25 | a matter will be er that we going to fight er , easily er so I mean i , it meant that the er , that er er some more should be brought out so that it er does er adhere to what er these er er government departments er expect as a response rather than er er as this considered issue raising er , we can er facilitate that er quite er easily but er I think er the the main point is what Hugh has said , that er we opposed it because it 's not going to help in my view it 's not going to help er the patients , the patients are not going to come off any better as a result of er , these er er what I would say and I feel and er the , I I I 'd like to know what er the GP 's think about cos GP 's usually erm er , advise their patients if they have to wait a long time from one hospital , they would advise them to go into London and er , if that 's been stopped as been er that 's been stated erm then erm , er the GP 's are not going to feel very happy about their patients er , getting er erm a lesser service . |
26 | you see I moved a bit more now but and I I 've still got good hearing er apart from this ear here , this ear , I ca n't hear so well , quite so well , this side , you see so I always have to say excuse me while I , hang on while I turn off the television , you see , and then they have to wait a minute till I turn it off and then what I do is because I have this phone extension put in |
27 | Instead he has to wait a week for next Saturday 's Victoria Ground clash with Swansea . |
28 | But the poem of his that he most needed reassurance about was Homage to Sextus Propertius ( 1919 ) , and for that he had to wait a long time . |
29 | He had to wait a quarter of an hour , but six or seven minutes after that he was climbing the weedy steps to the quay on the other side . |