Example sentences of "[vb past] wait [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I expected to wait a while for a spawning , but within two weeks they surprised me .
2 She had guessed by that time that , since he had n't yet stated why he 'd waited an hour to see her , he was saving what he 'd come to tell her until they were inside her flat .
3 Apparently , it was while climbing D.P. that he spotted a new line on the buttress , but decided to wait a while and link it with another new route he had in mind for the Central Pillar of Freney .
4 But I decided to wait a while before speaking .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 Gedanken had to wait a minute for her eyes to get used to the inky black darkness again .
8 Residents had to wait a year before they could put in claims and it 's only now that they 're getting their offers through , based on the district valuer 's assessment of the value of their homes .
9 And he only had to wait a couple of erm points left on his licence so if I 'd taken the dangerous thriving or something he could have lost his licence but erm that 's besides the point .
10 Indeed , it was something of a typically topsy-turvy but none the less gritty performance from Durie , who missed a match point at 5-3 and then had to wait an hour to complete the encounter after rain fell at the end of the ninth game .
11 Then he had to wait an hour for a taxi , but made it just in time to introduce Phil Collins .
12 A TERRIFIED pensioner had to wait an hour for police to arrive after an attempted burglary at her Teesside home .
13 Those who were paid had to wait an average of eight weeks for payment .
14 But he said wait a minute I hear him coming down the stairs .
15 Now he wished he had waited a year and a half and done the same thing here .
16 Apparently , if I had waited a bit longer prices would have been much higher .
17 And farther down the loch had waited the frigate that would escort it out to sea and stay with it , someone had told her , until it reached the safety of deep water .
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