Example sentences of "[vb infin] to wait [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Would you prefer to wait a moment , to collect your thoughts and prepare yourself spiritually ? ’ asked the ambience . |
| 2 | ‘ On a long journey this may be reasonable , but if you are travelling a short distance you do n't want to wait an hour . |
| 3 | Look , you 'll have to wait a minute while I get some gloves . |
| 4 | You want biscuits , well we 've got some biscuits , but you 'll just have to wait a minute , I ca n't unpack everything now , alright , right let's see if we can find the car Get you two in the car first I think , right then , oh , what a heavy trolley full of food Oh dear , dear , dear , will you please put your feet down Charlotte , stop me being kicked . |
| 5 | two two erm thingies two Jaffa Cakes two ba box of Jaffa Cakes and Mini Cheddars then I 'll have to wait a minute please have to wait again , and then a Coke er erm er er er erm doo doo . |
| 6 | to pick him he 's , he went out , he said I said to them , you 'll have to wait a minute my mother ai n't been very well , and I was ironing his shirt , he wo n't nothing to do |
| 7 | for ya , well we could , you 'll have to wait a minute now |
| 8 | Positive thinking will have to wait a while , but it augurs well for one of the young ringsiders who turned up in his smartest suit and said : ‘ What a disgusting fight ; I wish I 'd worn my tracksuit . ’ |
| 9 | Although the plant will have the capability to make it , low-calorie frozen yogurt — that most decadent of Western desserts — may have to wait a while . |
| 10 | If indeed , as Le Figaro magazine has said , AIDS is a ‘ world war ’ , the definitive account of the war will have to wait a while . |
| 11 | ‘ I think you 'll have to wait a while before you get another chance to be captain . ’ |
| 12 | It is left to Minerva to give a more balanced view ; reporting on a large trial of the same drug she notes ‘ men hoping for a drug treatment for benign prostatic hypertrophy will have to wait a while longer … small improvements in a urinary flow rate and a small reduction in the size of the gland have to be balanced against negative effect on both libido and potency . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Did n't you warn Jones that he 'd have to wait a while ? ’ |
| 14 | But the next episode of this little soap opera will have to wait a while . |
| 15 | FILM star Jenny Seagrove will have to wait a while yet for her Grand Opera House debut . |
| 16 | they want somebody to go down so we could have but a bit but , mum cos he said well you 'll have to wait a while ! |
| 17 | CHRIS Patten may have to wait a year or two before he returns to the Commons . |
| 18 | Usually in the Labour party any other organization you 're gon na have to wait a year but the women did n't . |
| 19 | So he might get his wall built but he might have to wait a year before he starts it . |
| 20 | We had an officer here wanting you to make a statement , but he 'll have to wait a couple of days . |
| 21 | Do n't think to yourself that you will have to wait a week for that garter stitch sweater — that 's the negative approach . |
| 22 | I leave at 7.30am and by 8am have checked Skipper over and given him a small handful of feed in his manger ( which seems to keep him happy when other horses are fed and means I do n't have to wait an hour for him to digest a full feed ) . |
| 23 | He had the good grace to apologise afterwards and I also expressed my gratitude that I did not have to wait an hour or so until the training was finished before I could obtain his team and get busy . |
| 24 | Few other landowners could afford to wait a generation for the return of their money , if it was to come back at all . |
| 25 | At the same time the regulators , too , need to know where things have gone wrong and they can not afford to wait the year or eighteen months necessary to conduct an investigation in depth before taking corrective action . |