Example sentences of "wait [prep] a [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The AeroMedical teams are now waiting for a Whitehall decision on when they 'll be needed . |
| 2 | He made friends easily though he occasionally collected the odd hanger-on who I felt sure was only waiting for a Sheikhly hand-out . |
| 3 | I would like to point out that it ai nt mine , I 'm waiting for a C Reg Escort to come through . |
| 4 | David Brush , and we we 're still wa we 're waiting on a Lily , so I think we might be asking Naomi to do our Lily for u |
| 5 | The Shadow Health Minister and labrador Offa were waiting at a Blackpool rank when Brian pulled up in his Ford Orion . |
| 6 | Scott quotes the case of a man who was persecuted by visions during a period of sickness and depression ; one of these visions was ‘ the apparition of a gentleman-usher , dressed as if to wait on a Lord Lieutenant of Ireland … arrayed in court dress , with bag and sword , tamboured waistcoat and chapeaubras ’ who ‘ glided beside me like the ghost of Beau Nash … |
| 7 | They waited for a Verey pistol to be fired , like some referee blowing a whistle before hostilities could officially commence . |
| 8 | In the small car-park of the Artilleryman 's Friend he waited by a Vauxhall that had been abandoned there ten months ago . |