Example sentences of "to wait [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She carried a textbook on neurology in case she had to wait long for David . |
| 2 | But he knows , too , how to wait patiently for things to change . |
| 3 | And though it was not his way to wait passively for things to come to him , in this he found himself helpless , unable to act . |
| 4 | ‘ And do n't you think you ought to wait here for Maria Luisa — ? ’ |
| 5 | This was surely the coldest and draughtiest station in the country , and I always had to wait there about midnight ; and I used to pray that the train would stop with a door opposite to me , so that I should have some chance of getting on at all . |