Example sentences of "[noun sg] to wait [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever I saw her , she always smiled at me , It was as if she 'd got me confused with someone else , someone important Once I had half an hour to wait for a transport . |
| 2 | You can use this function to wait for a specified time for a key to be pressed . |
| 3 | You must agree that you need talent and persona to wait on a table and wit , tact and conversation to serve at a bar . |
| 4 | Maxim had an hour and a half to wait for a train to Osnabrück , and half changed his mind about hiring a car , but that meant lots of signatures , and might be difficult to hand back if he flew home on a trooping flight from RAF Gütersloh . |
| 5 | Speaking before the ASEAN standing committee in September 1984 , the Malaysian Foreign Minister declared that it would be a mistake to wait for a solution to the Kampuchean problem before making attempts to implement the idea of the zone of peace , freedom and neutrality . |
| 6 | You can use GET and GET$ whenever you want your program to wait for a reply before continuing . |
| 7 | These simple changes to her father 's response enable this mildly handicapped child to acquire the socially necessary ability to wait in a definite and positive manner . |
| 8 | Forty years may be a long time to wait for a 19p basic rate of tax . |
| 9 | Seven days — a week — is a long time to wait for a telephone service nowadays . |
| 10 | Mrs Freda Bastianelli , the mother of four-month-old twin boys , who has a house on the shoreline , complained that another year was a long time to wait for a possible cure . |
| 11 | So it might pay a mother to wait for a few days and see what happened to the baby . |