Example sentences of "[modal v] [not/n't] wait [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now what the Capitulary of Thionville actually says is : ‘ When famine or plague occurs , men should not wait for our edict but should straightway pray to God for his mercy ; as to scarcity of food in this present year , let each man help his own people as best he can , and not sell his corn at too high a price . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ We should not wait for long , no . |
| 3 | In the last sentence erm my view is that we should not wait for an application to build on this site . |
| 4 | He should not wait until 1993 , which is the present proposal . |
| 5 | The advisers involved in any due diligence exercise should report to the investors regularly , outlining any problems that they are encountering ; they should not wait until the final publication of their report . |
| 6 | With an uncertain outlook for nineteen ninety three from our point of view it 's absolutely crucial to get costs in line we had obviously done cost-cutting during the previous two years , but we really needed to be sure that if revenues were not going to increase , we should n't wait for a recovery to bail us out . |
| 7 | " Well , Hazel , if I were you I should n't wait until hi-Frith . |
| 8 | But I am so worried now that I really would say , okay I 'll discuss it with Zain but let's not wait until the committee meeting , next committee meeting , let's do it as soon as we can . |
| 9 | I think I 'll I 'll not wait for Er if nothing comes in the post tomorrow I wo n't wait for the conference centre to get in touch with me , I 'll write to them tomorrow and drop it in . |
| 10 | Otto 's invitation , Jean-Claude said , could not wait on M. Chaillot 's decision . |
| 11 | Pat was bewildered , unable to understand why Eileen could not wait to be married from home , but by the next post Maureen and Anne received ecstatic letters from her and tried to reconcile their father to the idea of the wedding . |
| 12 | You could not wait for him to pass by . |
| 13 | She could hardly believe it , and she could not wait for her next consultation to see what was going to happen next . |
| 14 | Mr Cubbage was like a cat on hot bricks , he was most distraught at Coleen 's decision to go to England , and he bombarded her with letters and flowers ; he could not wait for her return and for her to say the one word that would make her his wife . |
| 15 | ‘ He was really looking forward to being a father and could not wait for the birth . |
| 16 | Unfortunately the tight filming schedule could not wait for just two weeks or so until a suitable engine ( ie a 4F 0-6-0 ) arrived at Bury . |
| 17 | ‘ And it could not wait until morning ? ’ |
| 18 | I could n't wait for the pictures to come out , I was so excited to see them . |
| 19 | He could n't wait for her return to the Hit Factory . |
| 20 | great , I could n't wait For the life of Mrs |
| 21 | fit state — But I could n't wait For |
| 22 | could n't wait For the life of Mrs |
| 23 | could n't wait For the life of Mrs Riley . |
| 24 | He looked and sounded now so unlike Old Red , the reputed scourge of Benedict 's , that I could n't wait for my holiday to end to let me get back and tell the girls . |
| 25 | ‘ I could n't wait for you , boy . |
| 26 | As Goffmann points out , the end of conversational encounters carry an increased risk of creating offence — in the sense that careless or perfunctory termination may convey the misleading impression that one could n't wait for the session to end and that as far as one was concerned the whole episode was a waste of time . |
| 27 | Some IMC trooper obviously could n't wait for lunch . |
| 28 | I could n't wait for tomorrow . |
| 29 | I used to think she did this because she loved my father so much she could n't wait for him to come home . |
| 30 | We could n't wait for him . |