Example sentences of "[vb past] wait for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was heavily pregnant but she was questioned and made to wait for the next twelve hours without food or water . |
| 2 | There was full consultation between family heads at each stage of the project and only a handful of families , mostly shop-owners , opted to wait for the Government supply which reached Perteguhan 18 months later . |
| 3 | On the edge of the runway Greg brought the ambulance to a halt and while they prepared to wait for the incoming aircraft , David maintained radio contact with the control tower . |
| 4 | Ever since I gave up my job and started waiting for the film to happen , I too have felt like a gap in between things . |
| 5 | Gloria tied on her red headscarf , Dot buttoned up her pink cardigan and they went to wait for the bus to take them down to the hospital to see how Baby was doing . |
| 6 | They left the hospital and went to wait for the bus . |
| 7 | Downstairs , Elsie Hogan , the bloom of youth scoured from her skeleton , lay waiting for the haemorrhage that would end it all . |
| 8 | Certainly , this does not have to be prenominal ; we can also expect it to turn up in postnominal attribution , and it does , in sentences like ( 13 ) ( a ) and ( b ) : ( 13 ) ( a ) the fish gutted lay waiting for the wholesalers ( b ) the fish , gutted , lay waiting for the wholesalers In the background of ( a ) , but not of ( b ) , there are other fish which have not undergone the same treatment . |
| 9 | So , no sooner did the record go into the charts and we were going ‘ yeah , this is it — hooray — we 're taking off ’ , they dropped the record and we had to wait for the guys to come back to earth . |
| 10 | So if it peaks two years before you plan to cash in , you do not lose because you had to wait for the money . |
| 11 | At the same time , while ensuring the blue of sky in front of the camera , I had to wait for the sun to fall on the scene from behind me , otherwise the sparkle of beach and palms would have been lost . |
| 12 | They no longer had to wait for the elusive Jennie to finish making a steak and kidney pudding before sanctioning an important business decision , but they had taken over in lean times and Doris began to find the strain intolerable . |
| 13 | Its close links with the English cathedrals had to wait for the Norman reorganization , which first made possible in England an absenteeism and pluralism on the German model . |
| 14 | And then , anyone who owed less than £200 had to wait for the start of the next law term in another four months if he wished to apply for the discharge which would come upon his delivering his whole property to the single creditor who had stayed with the process as long as that . |
| 15 | Weather conditions precluded this , so he had to wait for the next scheduled plane from Wick to Kirkwall . |
| 16 | He beat fellow American and world No 5 Michael Chang 7–5 , 6–2 , but had to wait for the result of the final round robin match in his group between big-hitters Goran Ivanisevic and Richard Krajicek to see if he would get through to the semi-finals of this last ranking competition of the year . |
| 17 | Klaasen 's contention that ‘ the only integration that has gone on so far has been among the top officials ’ seemed to be borne out by the fact that we had to wait for the penultimate game of the tours to seen the first nonwhite player take the field . |
| 18 | Change had to wait for the coming of the postwar years . |
| 19 | So we 'd fill them and we could n't see anyway , lookin We could n't look down and see , we had to wait for the foreman shouting all the instructions , move left , forward or up or down . |
| 20 | ‘ I had to wait for the right moment to tell Nicola . |
| 21 | The family 's passive resistance continued right up to the last moment : Zen was not permitted to set foot on Miletti soil but had to wait for the Fiat in the street , beyond the imposing wrought-iron gates . |
| 22 | You had to wait for the flash and details of the changes in interest rates on Black Wednesday — a day of vital interest for small businessmen and mortgage holders up and down the country . |
| 23 | Firemen had to wait for the mains to be turned off before engineers could cap the broken pipe . |
| 24 | Firefighters had to wait for the mains to be turned off before engineers could cap the broken pipe in Swindon . |
| 25 | We had to wait for the police and the doctor to certify what had happened . |
| 26 | The connection time was very tight and there were some weeks when I rarely caught the 7 o'clock bus to Ferryhill and had to wait for the 7.15am bus which takes a longer route and delayed my arrival even more . |
| 27 | His one break from bop conventions lay in the pacing of each set , since he favoured fast tempi almost exclusively , and we had to wait for the penultimate tune of the night to hear a ballad played at real ballad speed . |
| 28 | So we had to wait for the next bus , which was six o'clock . |
| 29 | So when Mr said that the firearms office majority of language , when the firearms officer said wait for the C I D and then some other policemen arrived and then you , that may well be right because from what you say it may well be that the C I D did get to the flat after the officers but before ? |
| 30 | As the sky slowly brightened and they waited , Fleury thought of how he and Harry had waited for the first attack of all at the beginning of June . |