Example sentences of "wait for the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the spadefoot , the intense competition among males for females means that some over-anxious males do not wait for the females to get into the pond but instead waylay them on the way to the breeding ground ; the pair then arrive at the pond already in amplexus . |
| 2 | But the experience of this Spirit must wait for the disciples until after the death and resurrection of the man filled with the Spirit . |
| 3 | He admitted last night : ‘ I ca n't wait for the players to find their feet in the Premier League . ’ |
| 4 | LEVEL CROSSINGS — Many accidents take place at level crossings simply because people lose patience and do n't wait for the barriers to open . |
| 5 | The speed is almost enough to lever a Windows user out of his comfortable environment and back into DOS ( but some of us will just wait for the Windows version ! ) . |
| 6 | Now if , do n't wait , if you know somebody has swallowed a poison whatever it is , get them to a hospital do n't wait for the signs and symptoms to appear , get them to a hospital . |
| 7 | Ca n't wait for the dogs . |
| 8 | Why did n't they wait for the passengers to get off first , instead of squeezing themselves , their sacks of wheat and bicycles on at the same time that others were dragging their possessions off ? |
| 9 | I could n't wait for the pictures to come out , I was so excited to see them . |
| 10 | Sometimes I was so affected by a particular view or landscape that I 'd wait for the athletes to run into it before taking a photo . |
| 11 | We must wait for the police . ’ |
| 12 | Before deciding on making an application , he said , Finland would wait for the results of negotiations under way between the European Free Trade Association ( EFTA , of which Finland was one of the seven members ) and the EC on a common European Economic Area ( EEA ) [ see p. 38353 ] . |
| 13 | They did not wait for the masses to come to them , they followed the masses and sometimes they were even there first . |
| 14 | We 'll wait for the lads up there to tell us about the blood and we 'll read the autopsy report . |
| 15 | He did not wait for the servants to open the doors , but just pushed through into the entrance hall , and then into the great ballroom where a score of painters and upholsterers were finishing a long night 's work during which they had transformed the ballroom into a silk-hung fantasy . |