Example sentences of "[vb infin] wait [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't want to hold up this alteration , and I , like Mr , do n't want to wait three years for a decision . |
| 2 | You will need to wait several hours before applying the oils . |
| 3 | I can remember waiting some minutes before walking through the house , knowing that there must be proof of burglary at the back door , and when I got there in an uncomprehending state , lo and behold the kitchen door was broken right down ! |
| 4 | Further , if the recipient does not wish to wait six months he can serve a notice on the sender in which case , if the sender does not come within one month to collect them , they then become an unconditional gift . |
| 5 | But we 'll have to wait five days until Sunday before we can meet Nancy on London Bridge . |
| 6 | Can the Prime Minister tell the House how he squares his vision of a classless Britain with the experience of a constituent of mine from Fulwood , who was told last May that she needed a hip replacement but that she would have to wait 14 months for the operation under the national health service , and who was told that she could have had the operation immediately had she been able to cough up £4,300 ? |
| 7 | The Kyalami Ranch was very much the sort of place where James liked relaxing : you might have to wait two hours for your dinner , but never a moment for the sun , and James is a basker , the deckchair his habitat . |
| 8 | BAD NEWS for anyone wanting to move : you will probably have to wait two years for a substantial recovery in the housing market . |
| 9 | And that 's third party carriage forward which is even , and Peter 's even happier because he does n't even have to wait two days now , he gets his delivery next day . |
| 10 | ‘ I hope I do n't have to wait all night . ’ |
| 11 | But Coun Shephard , who is chairman of the district 's environmental health committee , said he had spoken to two families who were told only last month they would have to wait 50 weeks . |
| 12 | City banks may have to wait another year or so . |
| 13 | Well lads , he says , I 'm sorry you 'll have to wait another hour . |
| 14 | But that is a matter for an extensive argument which will have to wait another occasion . |
| 15 | The Defence budget would stand buying another catapult tomorrow ; my crossbow would just have to wait another week or so . |
| 16 | The Edinburgh council official who 's paid for doing nothing will have to wait another month , before a decision is made on his future . |
| 17 | So I thought well I do n't have to wait three weeks for mine so next time I do n't feel great I 'm gon na call in and take a couple of days off . |
| 18 | ready on by a computer , do you have to wait three days ? |
| 19 | for the cheque you 're gon na have to wait three days to clear in it ? in your bank |
| 20 | So er she says yeah fair enough then she wo n't have to wait three week , cos it 's only me that 's losing , not her . |
| 21 | Therefore a firm would have to wait three months before they could determine this charge which is not timely for management purposes . |
| 22 | A player joining a new club during the close season or after the season starts will have to wait 30 days if joining a club two leagues higher or lower before he plays for that club in a Courage league game or 120 days if joining a club on the same level or one league higher or lower before he plays for that in a league game ; he waits 180 days if he is not a British passport holder . |
| 23 | He left her on the hard shoulder , near Epping , Essex , saying she would only have to wait 15 minutes . |
| 24 | Would it be done in the first year of a Labour Government , in the first Labour Parliament , or in two or three terms , or will there be an exchange rate mechanism-type growing process whereby we get used to the idea over 10 or 15 years and the Scots can have it immediately because they are culturally and politically ready for it , but the people of the north , who are not that bothered , will have to wait 15 years until they see the advantages that will supposedly accrue to Scotland and then will mount the barricades and demand the same for themselves ? |
| 25 | The rescue service , which describes its staff as the ‘ new knights of the road , ’ boasts women alone should only have to wait 20 minutes . |
| 26 | They might have to wait some time … . |
| 27 | ‘ It is very enjoyable but one of the disadvantages is that when you start out you can be put low on a list after others and you may have to wait some time . |
| 28 | Others who may well have had reservations about him ( though we shall probably have to wait some time before their reflections can be made available to us ) were the oil-company spokesmen to whom he advanced new facts of life during the earnestly disputed discussions between OPEC and the major companies in Tehran in December 1973 . |
| 29 | Well why why do we have wait three months ? |
| 30 | They should have waited two years more , Henry thought bitterly , until the people had come to hate me even more than they hated Richard . |