Example sentences of "would [vb infin] wait for " in BNC.
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| 1 | at half past three or you can say if you 'd like to , if you 'd like to wait for half an hour , we 'll get a giro cheque to , issued to you or if you 'd rather you can come back at half past three and collect it . |
| 2 | The counter-girl told me I 'd have to wait for the manager . |
| 3 | I remarked to my friend , ‘ You 'd have to wait for a long time to get a train from here , ’ he smiled and we both set off for the youth hostel down the road . |
| 4 | But the former was impossible with the twins in tow and the latter unthinkable given the length of time he 'd have to wait for one on a Sunday . |
| 5 | But the point of our ‘ numbers of planets ’ argument is that , even if the chemist said that we 'd have to wait for a ‘ miracle ’ , have to wait a billion billion years — far longer than the universe has existed , we can still accept this verdict with equanimity . |
| 6 | We 'd have to wait for the next one then . |
| 7 | To find its most lasting realization , Charlie 's vision would have to wait for a bank clerk who did understand metempsychosis , and who had not only a commercial education gained in an underground room at Lloyds Bank , but also a knowledge of Greek . |
| 8 | If I could n't find it , I would have to wait for morning and steer north by my watch and the sun . |
| 9 | Last Friday the civil servant in charge of government policy on radioactive waste management reiterated Whitehall 's position that a solution to the disposal issue would have to wait for a future generation . |
| 10 | Precisely how these new popular energies would influence the world of high politics could not be anticipated : perhaps the movement would have to wait for one of Cobden 's ‘ accidents ’ . |
| 11 | On February 27 she was told only a heart transplant would save her husband 's life and they would have to wait for a donor . |
| 12 | Without such action by the judge , Intel would have to wait for the new 80287 trial to be completed before the company could file any appeal . |
| 13 | Sometimes he would have to wait for an hour or more before he could find someone to carry him to the Collector 's side . |
| 14 | They would have to wait for Bert and Jasper to help him . |
| 15 | It would have to wait for a more opportune time , she decided , and replaced the receiver . |
| 16 | A trade agreement provided for a reduction of customs duties on goods traded by the two countries ( thus extending most favoured nation status to the Soviet Union and improving the competitiveness of each country 's goods in the other 's markets ) ; the agreement also provided for better copyright protection for US companies and for reductions in the time US companies would have to wait for approval to begin commercial operations in the Soviet Union . |
| 17 | A new motor car was for many a luxury that would have to wait for another day . |
| 18 | Although nationalists could express themselves freely in cultural terms , their aspiration for a united Ireland would have to wait for the ballot box to decide . |
| 19 | In the past the NZRFU might not have dealt with submissions from individuals ( such as Knight or even Mayhew ) but would have waited for the details to come , union-to-union , through the usual official channels . |
| 20 | If Panin had had his way , peasants would have waited for land indefinitely . |
| 21 | If they had been advised as to the necessity for clear offers in writing with terms set out from the bank , their case is that they would have taken that advice , they would have waited for the bank offer and if and when it had not been suitable for them they would not have exchanged and their case is also that er once things had gone er very badly wrong and they wanted to get out of the contract if they had been advised as to the way out er then er they would have been er of that , they would have served notice and they would have got out of the contract . |
| 22 | Currently , with strong competition from many units throughout Europe for available organs , many patients similar to those described herein would die waiting for a suitable donor organ . |
| 23 | We have not as yet got out any form of formal consultation process , erm , but obviously erm , if erm , if that 's what members er , of this Committee wish , erm , then we would do so , and we would be advised as to whether that should be in advance of P and R , or whether members would wish to wait for the , the results of P and R Committee before formally embarking on , on consultation there . |
| 24 | ‘ There is no port at Kinghorn but there are a number of fishing villages and coves along the coast where Queen Yolande would go to wait for the ship . |