Example sentences of "wait [subord] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather than wait until a discourse is finished , and then analyse it as a whole , from outside and with the benefit of hindsight , the ethnomethodologists try to understand how it unfolds in time . |
| 2 | Perhaps he would wait until a baby was on the way , for Mrs Darne had not failed to notice that these days extramarital pregnancy , once a horrible disgrace , was often the loudly publicized occasion for a wedding , with the bride , far from ashamed of herself , carrying all proudly before her . |
| 3 | The figure might wait till a drone swooped nearby and fire up at it — just as if shooting at Lexandro . |
| 4 | If you 're so desperate to marry again please wait until a lady of the proper class comes along . |
| 5 | Wait until a convoy comes creeping through the night . |
| 6 | Wait until a ferret fitted with a transmitter has taken up a fixed position down a burrow . |
| 7 | One difficulty is the agonising 12-week wait before a test can be carried out . |
| 8 | ‘ Unfortunately she had to wait until a bed was available on the ward , but she was given a bed in casualty . |
| 9 | Bladder control at night sometimes happens a long time after control in the day , and as with daytime training , it 's best to wait until a child shows signs of being able to develop control . |
| 10 | Prior to the conference , the US official line has been to wait until a link between carbon dioxide and global warming became proven . |
| 11 | He is not in a hurry , he is man to wait until a thing is right , time , price , everything but he will always do what he wants , and get his aeroplanes eventually . |
| 12 | Traffic dilemma : Darlington Borough Council has indicated that the parish council will have to wait until a bypass is opened before the problems of congestion in the village can be properly addressed . |
| 13 | To begin with , the vets had to wait until a horse had broken down , and then sift through their collection of its graphs to see if and when they could first detect a change . |
| 14 | I am waiting until a head of my wife is dry before sending you — with the ones you know about — four canvases . |
| 15 | They were nearly into the spa town , and were waiting while a trolley-bus took right of way , when she saw no reason not to ask what seemed to her a perfectly natural question . |
| 16 | Kersey went to the bar and had to wait while a group of fishermen jointly related to the landlord a story of putting into an Irish port for shelter and being suspected by the Garda of gunrunning for the IRA . |
| 17 | Maxim pressed the entryphone bell for Winkelmann and waited until a man 's voice rasped : ‘ Bitte ? ’ |
| 18 | My master waited until a kitchen boy served us , then suddenly rose , locking the great doors of the hall as well as those to the kitchen and buttery . |
| 19 | Mistakes can be costly and the author recalls one scheme where the beneficiary of a right of way waited until a house purchaser was due to move in before exercising his rights , thus deliberately causing the maximum disruption to the developer . |
| 20 | I waited until a break came in the pain , and then pinned a healthy smile on my face and told her I felt perfectly well . |