Example sentences of "[adv] to wait for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew I should go back to the stockade now , but an idea came to me and I sat down to wait for darkness . |
| 2 | Then we all settled down to wait for Madam . |
| 3 | This Friday Geraldine settled down to wait for Newsnight . |
| 4 | Just as the interwar prophet of Blitzkrieg had also been a lobbyist for the professional army , so , in the late 1940s and early 1950s , de Gaulle was not content simply to wait for disaster to strike . |
| 5 | Nell had said she would meet me this Sunday morning in the coffee shop in the Great Hall , and had told me that the crews often went there to wait for train time . |