Example sentences of "[conj] wait for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Before any enactment existed with regard to actions by solicitors for their costs , a solicitor stood in the same position as any other person who has done work for another at his request , and could sue as soon as the work which he was retained to do was finished , without having delivered any signed bill of costs or waiting for any time after the delivery of such a bill . |
| 2 | For example , limitations on domestic heating during winter smogs could lead to the elderly suffering from hypothermia , and prohibitions on the use of private cars could increase exposure to outdoor pollution whilst walking to work or waiting for public transport . |
| 3 | Buxton initiated his Civilization Society in part because he feared that to wait for antislavery principles to permeate foreign societies of slaveholders , which he believed to be BFASS policy , ‘ would cost us half a century , and that implies the sacrifice of twenty five millions of the human race ’ . |
| 4 | We made the decision to go despite the lack of an organized UK presence — we are on-air with a new series running from January to March 1991 and we wanted to make contacts before then , rather than wait for MIP-TV to come around in April . |
| 5 | The Bank of England has , for many years , sought to make this a continuous operation and it seeks to buy stock approaching maturity rather than waiting for legal redemption dates . |
| 6 | The animal can anticipate them , rather than waiting for direct evidence . |
| 7 | She neither gave him an answer nor waited for more reaction , but turned swiftly up the stairs and through the kitchen and along the corridor where , without knocking , she burst into Jessie 's room . |
| 8 | The temptation for a band may be to say that there is too much hassle attached to gigging in the Soviet Union and to wait for better times . |
| 9 | They much appreciate the work being done by Mrs Doyle , but they are not in a walk of life where they can sit back and wait for better times . |
| 10 | Let's go back and wait for better weather . ’ |
| 11 | My plan was to sit around and wait for one of the parish team to appear and then to ask them for their advice . |
| 12 | Our Dawn told me he 's had to go and wait for that bloody pregnancy scan . |
| 13 | Every division of the army had a prearranged town or village where it would gather and wait for further orders . |
| 14 | An official I spoke to said there were no staff to take the train on and we had to leave and wait for another to come along . ’ |
| 15 | Because he felt so relaxed , he was able to smile and wait for another bar or two before letting the music dictate an answer . |
| 16 | It can not just point smugly to the late-flowering green shoots of recovery and wait for economic summer to arrive . |
| 17 | Instead , control your impatience and wait for another week or so before testing the material again . |
| 18 | I better back off and wait for another day . ’ |
| 19 | Find that , and wait for further instructions . |
| 20 | Keep the records in a plain brown wrapper and wait for Inspiral puberty ? |
| 21 | If you do snap a twig then freeze and wait for several minutes before continuing . |
| 22 | A. T. The worst part of the job was after passing the Sergeant 's exam and waiting for twelve to thirteen years to get promoted — you 'd have the Chief Constable 's Orders come out and you 'd see people who had passed years after you being promoted and you 'd think that I 'll do my thirty years like this . |
| 23 | The first items unpacked were trout-rods ; and they stayed up , ready and waiting for instant use for as long as we lived there . |
| 24 | They carefully scanned the area , unmoving , and waiting for any sign of life . |
| 25 | But to Perdita they appeared curiously passive , sitting and waiting for some man to make them unhappy . |
| 26 | Anton though , as if waiting for this opening , Parker 's panic , caught him for his best bite yet , a chunk : with all of his teeth , his werewolf mouth , from high inside of a beefy thigh . |
| 27 | Perhaps only three or four keys on the typewriter keyboard that the computer will have need to be pressed at all , and if a child presses the wrong one it does n't all stop and funny , you know , impersonal messages come up on the screen saying he 's done something wrong , it just ignores them and waits for one of the correct responses . |
| 28 | And waits for this one from Tufnell , pushes forward , and it 's hit on his pad outside the off stump possibly , loud appeals from everybody , there 's a rather high-pitched vocals , I think we 've got some young people in or a lot of ladies today . |
| 29 | takes pay , and waits for another piece |
| 30 | I held my breath and waited for that savage tug ; and waited , and waited , and waited . |