Example sentences of "wait the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd had to wait the best part of a month at Holmsly Manor , and then everything had happened at once . |
| 2 | Paul , her husband , generally left before seven and had lunch out with one of his friends , while she used her free day to take care of a thousand chores more annoying than the duties of her job : she had to go to the post office and fret for half an hour in a queue , go shopping in the supermarket , where she quarrelled with the saleswoman and wasted time waiting at the check-out , telephone the plumber and plead with him to be precisely on time so that she would n't have to wait the whole day for him . |
| 3 | I have n't got to wait the whole week . |
| 4 | As for me , I had to wait the whole summer and into the late autumn for rehearsals of The Jungle Book to begin , so I went back to South London , happy in the knowledge that soon I 'd be in a professional production and there 'd be someone in the cast for me to fall in love with . |
| 5 | In relation to PC Cherry , who had to wait the same period before being summonsed , Lord Justice Watkins said the delay after April 1987 , when there was ample evidence to sustain a prima facie case against him , was ‘ undoubtedly extreme ’ . |
| 6 | He and Dorothy would lie in wait the following day and cudgel her to death . |
| 7 | My carriage is waiting the other side of the field ! |
| 8 | Trained by Peter Monteith at Rosewell , just outside Edinburgh , the nine-year-old has been waiting the good ground he will encounter today and , in the words of his trainer , with prizes going down to £4,000 for fourth place and £600 for sixth , ‘ it would be mad not to run him ’ . |
| 9 | Imagine that you have been studying for 20 years for a qualification that will change your life , or waiting the same length of time to hear about a job you have applied for , the only job you have ever really wanted . |
| 10 | The terrors of the workhouse were thus extended beyond the portals of death ; for the least favoured section of the population there waited the ultimate humiliation of dissection by medical students , a fate hitherto reserved for convicted murderers . |
| 11 | As he waited the young man began to feel the tension knotting his stomach . |
| 12 | Inside each brown case waited the empty skull-face , folded flat , with a flappy rubber nose and hard cylindrical snout , though they frightened Dot less now than they used to . |
| 13 | The train steamed at speed through the night and at 04.00 halted briefly at Hanover where , on the platform , waited the portly figure of General von Hindenburg , who had been brought out of retirement to become Commander-in-Chief . |