Example sentences of "to wait [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As they crossed to the supermarket they had to wait as an assistant wearing a jacket over his uniform wheeled a long line of trolleys from a loading bay into the store . |
| 2 | This puts industry off voluntary controls and it tends to wait for a law to be brought in . |
| 3 | Seven days — a week — is a long time to wait for a telephone service nowadays . |
| 4 | Ebert , Fest and I. We were after the assassins of the T'ang 's Minister , Lwo Kang , and had been told to wait for a contact from our Triad connections there . |
| 5 | on the other hand , a school with a high rate of staff turnover can not usually afford to wait for a consensus and readiness that may never come ; and a staff hand-picked in a new school , or for a new school situation such as amalgamation or unstreaming , is usually in a mood for bigger adventures . |
| 6 | Does the Minister agree with the view therefore , that nurses that nurses should be given the authority to admit patients to hospital provided there is a bed without having to wait for a decision to be to be made by a doctor ? |
| 7 | Forty years may be a long time to wait for a 19p basic rate of tax . |
| 8 | He reached it without mishap but had to wait for a while , watching the day begin , until the ferrymaster arrived . |
| 9 | Eventually , well into the afternoon , we found the route — but had to wait for a couple who pushed in front claiming they were ‘ HVS climbers ’ and would not take long . |
| 10 | With someone who 's not I 'd try and get them to wait for a couple of days and then if they would n't I 'd go through the and get them it today . |
| 11 | Each call sent out by a client has to wait for a response before another is sent . |
| 12 | Each call sent out by a client has to wait for a response before another is sent . |
| 13 | But they may have to wait for a year , and maybe even two , before the brief , dramatic cycle can begin all over again . |
| 14 | For this reason , instead of joining in the stampede for the latest and newest , I suggest it would be more prudent to wait for a year or two to see if the strawberry blonde holds her place as a glamour queen , or in reality is a blowzy old dame hobbling into the has-beens in the back row of the chorus , where she will find plenty to keep her company . |
| 15 | First she wanted to learn and see , she wanted to wait for a man who did things and was something on his own . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Every time he has to wait for a question , he claims victory . |
| 18 | He thought of sitting down to wait for a break in the storm but that could have been all night so he struggled on downhill , angling a little to the left , until he met the treeline at the bottom of the meadow . |
| 19 | At a corner he stopped to wait for a break in the traffic . |
| 20 | A day longer to wait for a letter ! |
| 21 | But they had to wait for a host of their rivals to commit pop suicide before they could begin the job of moulding this new discovery . |
| 22 | What happens if Well , oh sa , pwurgh , I do n't know , I mean she has to wait for a week . |
| 23 | I decided to wait for a review — you know what Microsoft 's other support lines are like . |
| 24 | Perhaps I am prepared to wait for a miracle . |
| 25 | Maxim had an hour and a half to wait for a train to Osnabrück , and half changed his mind about hiring a car , but that meant lots of signatures , and might be difficult to hand back if he flew home on a trooping flight from RAF Gütersloh . |
| 26 | You can use GET and GET$ whenever you want your program to wait for a reply before continuing . |
| 27 | They had to be willing , too , to wait for a place to become available . |
| 28 | It may be necessary to wait for a place or take a place somewhere else ( either permanently or temporarily ) . |
| 29 | Clare was fired for turning up late after she had to wait for a doctor because Josh had a temperature . |
| 30 | To find its most lasting realization , Charlie 's vision would have to wait for a bank clerk who did understand metempsychosis , and who had not only a commercial education gained in an underground room at Lloyds Bank , but also a knowledge of Greek . |