Example sentences of "wait for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather than wait for the release of the third cinema outing , Ocean have written an excellent multilevel extravaganza , incorporating and improving on existing styles from the other two RoboCop games . |
| 2 | Moreover , if the tables are to be turned , the USSR will do so at a time of her choosing , rather than wait for the hour of maximum danger to herself . |
| 3 | It 's all right if you 've got a nice landlord who 'll wait for the payment to come through . |
| 4 | He need not , however , transport the goods but can wait for the trader to come and collect them . |
| 5 | You must wait for the law . |
| 6 | I could n't wait for the air raids . |
| 7 | I 'll wait for the call . |
| 8 | Rather , you must wait for the cigar that is — so to speak — ordained , to speak to you . |
| 9 | She could then either wait for the ferry , which was sporadic , or go back up to the head of the estuary and up to where the river was narrow enough for a bridge . |
| 10 | Ha Ha Ha I ca n't wait for the bullshit to flow as they try to explain away this one . |
| 11 | I thought first of all that I 'd wait for the newspaper reports of the killing and use those as an excuse . |
| 12 | Can , can I just I thought that my perceptions of this was there were twenty schemes already in existence er split between parish wardens and parish constables and there was gon na be a report put back to the er home secretary for him to decide the way forward and er that er we would wait for the evaluation of that scheme before we went further . |
| 13 | Having used a good CAVOK day absorbing its contents , I ca n't wait for the chance to get out and put some of Harvey Plourde 's theories to the test in my Champ — Bob Grimstead . |
| 14 | Why wait for the expert from the computer department ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Yeah , we have , I 've got ta wait for the man to come ! |
| 17 | ‘ If the going stays soft she 'll go for the Queen Elizabeth at Ascot , otherwise we 'll wait for the Champion at Newmarket , ’ said Cecil , who tries to win his fifth St Leger on Saturday with Allegan . |
| 18 | We can not stand by and wait for the equivalent of the Apple Macintosh to create a second empowerment of our students . |
| 19 | ‘ He was really looking forward to being a father and could not wait for the birth . |
| 20 | The moral do n't wait for the ref 's whistle . |
| 21 | ‘ We must wait for the strike to wear itself out , ’ as his private summary of his tactics . |
| 22 | Taking up the points made in recent days by Mr Tony Blair , Labour 's employment spokesman , and the TUC , Mr Fowler said the dismantling of the closed shop need not wait for the passage of the bill . |
| 23 | According to one report , people could hardly wait for the attack to start , and everybody wanted to be present at Britain 's impending defeat . |
| 24 | As Goffmann points out , the end of conversational encounters carry an increased risk of creating offence — in the sense that careless or perfunctory termination may convey the misleading impression that one could n't wait for the session to end and that as far as one was concerned the whole episode was a waste of time . |
| 25 | So do n't wait for the scratching to start . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , ’ he thought , ‘ I 'll just have to sit and wait for the mist to clear . ’ |
| 27 | The World Cup referees must have felt that the ball had ‘ been killed ’ on the ground and that it was therefore necessary to blow straight away for the penalty rather than wait for the advantage to occur . |
| 28 | I 'll wait for the dirt-digging till we 're eating . |
| 29 | McAllister or Strach would feed it out to Sharp ( who was absolutely brill — see below ) who would either wait for the overlap from Dorigo or take on Breacker ( skinning him most of the time ) . |
| 30 | ‘ The fact is you do n't sit back and wait for the UFF or IRA to hit their victims — you go after them . |