Example sentences of "and wait [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I urge the assembly to accept this amendment to depart from this statement , to commend to our churches the use of the apostle 's creed and to wait for a day of broad theological agreement which in the providence of God and by the work of the holy spirit will surely come and then agree upon a statement of faith which we shall all agree and be able to commend enthusiastically to the church but until then to depart from this one . |
| 2 | The pioneer of bee research Karl von Frisch recalls ( and we have observed ) instances in which the trained foragers began to anticipate subsequent moves and to wait for the feeder at the presumptive new location . |
| 3 | The partners have taken the pay cut until next March to see if interest rates fall and to wait for the launch of a new product . |
| 4 | And he would sit and wait on the other side for someone to come and pick him up when he was coming home . ’ |
| 5 | You could almost stand and wait for a horse to deliver . |
| 6 | Numbers on the train were greatly reduced at Georgemas where those going to Wick had to dismount and wait for a connecting Sprinter . |
| 7 | You have to be sure the bird is very hungry , and if it 's not you have to sit down and wait for a long , long time . |
| 8 | His constitution was now in place , his political position at home was very strong , but he was almost seventy years of age and could hardly afford to sit back and wait for a long-term transformation to solve Algeria 's problems . |
| 9 | It is unlikely that Patrick will come here and wait for the Plantagenet . |
| 10 | ‘ Just let their targets sit back and wait for the bullet , eh ? ’ |
| 11 | We can not stand by and wait for the equivalent of the Apple Macintosh to create a second empowerment of our students . |
| 12 | Significantly , the home referees in south Africa and Sandy MacNeill and David Bishop , the two test referees , were prepared to wait and wait for the ball to emerge from rucks and mauls . |
| 13 | As he pulled on the oars — he could not bear simply to sit and wait for the bell to ring — John was again the boy who had set out to be the man he never became . |
| 14 | But he could not sit patiently and wait for the next train , in an hour 's time . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , ’ he thought , ‘ I 'll just have to sit and wait for the mist to clear . ’ |
| 16 | Half past eight comes and it is time to stand outside and wait for the bus . |
| 17 | Then , before she could decide whether to retreat and wait for the Empress to leave , a man murmured softly . |
| 18 | ‘ The fact is you do n't sit back and wait for the UFF or IRA to hit their victims — you go after them . |
| 19 | fra , ma frame of mind , you got to demand and wait for the answer , even though it might take a minute for the to say erm , erm , oh we use erm , you know , we 've got a , a , a local van that comes and se , like , you know . |
| 20 | They had been allowed in , they had gone past the uniformed security , and then had had to sit and wait in a grey-painted lobby , watched by the plainclothes minders , before the man had come down for them . |
| 21 | In the most dreadful weather he would stand and wait in a wet grove of ash and hazel for a shot at a woodcock . |
| 22 | They were made to stand and wait in the first of these . |
| 23 | Someone told me how her director always says at the end of her outpourings , ‘ Let us keep silent and wait on the Holy Spirit ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ Get over the rail and wait on the props . |
| 25 | Turn left from the entrance and wait on the first corner . |
| 26 | ‘ Feed him cotton wool sandwiches and wait at the other end ! ’ said the vet . |
| 27 | We walk down to the shore in the warm drizzling rain and wait at the quayside . |
| 28 | okay colleague , come and wait at the front , alright . |
| 29 | Pluck a London-based journalist out of the office ; put him or her on a train with a party heavyweight ; and wait for a slice of prime grassroots ham to arrive . |
| 30 | Once the message was on the wire , he had little else to do except sit back and wait for a few days . |