Example sentences of "to wait a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had to wait a quarter of an hour , but six or seven minutes after that he was climbing the weedy steps to the quay on the other side . |
| 2 | Yeah oh yeah I did n't work anywhere else in Willenhall at all , and erm but we 'd got to be in for seven o'clock and if erm you were n't in for seven o'clock and sometimes I used to hear the bell began ringing when I got to go around the corner and get into the , but you had to wait a quarter of an hour before they would let you in and that was stopped off your money and my wage was eight and fourpence a week . |
| 3 | ‘ I was just telling you that I reckon it was a good idea — to wait a day before going back to New York , ’ Carole repeated , smiling to herself at the other girl 's slightly abstracted expression . |
| 4 | Gedanken had to wait a minute for her eyes to get used to the inky black darkness again . |
| 5 | I expected to wait a while for a spawning , but within two weeks they surprised me . |
| 6 | But I decided to wait a while before speaking . |
| 7 | At the beginning of the 1980 's a typeface would have cost around $4,500 and you would probably have had to wait a couple of weeks while it was digitised from some master copy . |
| 8 | We had an officer here wanting you to make a statement , but he 'll have to wait a couple of days . |
| 9 | And he only had to wait a couple of erm points left on his licence so if I 'd taken the dangerous thriving or something he could have lost his licence but erm that 's besides the point . |
| 10 | Few other landowners could afford to wait a generation for the return of their money , if it was to come back at all . |
| 11 | Do n't think to yourself that you will have to wait a week for that garter stitch sweater — that 's the negative approach . |
| 12 | Instead he has to wait a week for next Saturday 's Victoria Ground clash with Swansea . |
| 13 | If so , the meeting can proceed ; otherwise , the usual practice is for the meeting to wait a maximum of 15 to 30 minutes for a quorum to assemble . |
| 14 | I leave at 7.30am and by 8am have checked Skipper over and given him a small handful of feed in his manger ( which seems to keep him happy when other horses are fed and means I do n't have to wait an hour for him to digest a full feed ) . |
| 15 | Then he had to wait an hour for a taxi , but made it just in time to introduce Phil Collins . |
| 16 | A TERRIFIED pensioner had to wait an hour for police to arrive after an attempted burglary at her Teesside home . |
| 17 | Those who were paid had to wait an average of eight weeks for payment . |