Example sentences of "[vb past] wait for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the big wigs arrived , however , they were barely acknowledged by a dour receptionist , told to sit in a grubby waiting area strewn with cigarette ends and empty coffee cups , and kept waiting for half an hour without either apology or explanation . |
| 2 | We had to wait for all three of them to finish before getting it back . |
| 3 | I had to wait for another performance to see . ’ |
| 4 | Fellow passengers had to wait for another train to continue their journey because the original train 's safety mechanism had jammed . |
| 5 | The puzzle was that the times one had to wait for this to happen varied very greatly from nucleus to nucleus , despite there being only small changes in the circumstances involved . |
| 6 | We had to wait for some months in order to get a passage and finally set oft on my birthday in January . |
| 7 | We had to wait for some days until a convoy of ships was ready . |
| 8 | She had to wait for some time before the door was opened , and she hoped very much that it would be opened by Clelia , but it was not ; it was opened by a thin , brown , balding , youngish looking man . |
| 9 | Electrical stimulation could produce dramatic effects , but the proper study of electro-physiology had to wait for some time until it was possible to record small electrical potentials . |
| 10 | A packed hall had responded attentively to his intense , vocally elegant , performances of arias by Scarlatti , Stradella , Meyerbeer , Donizetti , Cilea and the Spanish composer Pablo Sorozabal , but with the opening instrumental strains of Catari in his first encore the vast audience suddenly burst into the kind of wildly enthusiastic applause that one had waited for all evening . |
| 11 | This she had waited for all her life . |
| 12 | All the day before , she had waited for half an hour to go off walking by herself and it had never come . |
| 13 | All through tea I had waited for some indication on his part that he knew I had seen the girl — as he must have known , for it was obvious that the nocturnal concert had been given to announce her presence . |
| 14 | He had his back to her and he stood waiting for another outburst , but when neither answer nor movement came to him he turned his head slowly and looked at her over his shoulder . |