Example sentences of "to wait [subord] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Unfortunately she had to wait until a bed was available on the ward , but she was given a bed in casualty . |
| 2 | Bladder control at night sometimes happens a long time after control in the day , and as with daytime training , it 's best to wait until a child shows signs of being able to develop control . |
| 3 | Prior to the conference , the US official line has been to wait until a link between carbon dioxide and global warming became proven . |
| 4 | He is not in a hurry , he is man to wait until a thing is right , time , price , everything but he will always do what he wants , and get his aeroplanes eventually . |
| 5 | Traffic dilemma : Darlington Borough Council has indicated that the parish council will have to wait until a bypass is opened before the problems of congestion in the village can be properly addressed . |
| 6 | To begin with , the vets had to wait until a horse had broken down , and then sift through their collection of its graphs to see if and when they could first detect a change . |
| 7 | Kersey went to the bar and had to wait while a group of fishermen jointly related to the landlord a story of putting into an Irish port for shelter and being suspected by the Garda of gunrunning for the IRA . |