Example sentences of "[vb -s] to wait " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when the parent is teaching the child to do what is asked , the parent needs to wait and check . |
| 2 | The culmination of its activity is at the kill , whereas a retriever needs to wait and relate closely to its owner , if it is to be successful at its task . |
| 3 | Vengeance has to wait . |
| 4 | Now he has to wait and see how much John Major 's attitude to Europe has been affected by the gift of five more years in power . |
| 5 | How long he has to wait he does n't know . |
| 6 | In university and polytechnic libraries the advanced instruction has to wait until the second and third years of undergraduate courses , because it is at these stages that the students work on sometimes quite specialized projects . |
| 7 | Every time he has to wait for a question , he claims victory . |
| 8 | Further explanation has to wait till The Silmarillion , but in a sense is not needed . |
| 9 | But he has to wait 12 months to join an NHS waiting list and two more years before he can have the surgery . |
| 10 | Each call sent out by a client has to wait for a response before another is sent . |
| 11 | Each call sent out by a client has to wait for a response before another is sent . |
| 12 | It is working with Intel on the project but has to wait for silicon before it attempts to actualise the product and turn it over to LSI Logic for manufacture . |
| 13 | This is no comfort for a patient who has to wait a few months ( in the past , waiting times in some centres were over two years ) but is perhaps a more rational means of distributing limited health care resources than the random waiting lists used in the past , when patients were given fairly arbitrary degrees of priority . |
| 14 | In May 1991 , after 30 years of bitter civil war , Eritrea broke away from Ethiopia , but has to wait for the referendum officially to declare itself an independent state . |
| 15 | In May 1991 , after 30 years of bitter civil war , Eritrea broke away from Ethiopia , but has to wait for the referendum officially to declare itself an independent state . |
| 16 | Has to wait for food to be cooked and prepare to wait for it . |
| 17 | But if you 're in a situation where that 's not possible then you 'll do the very best you can , but you 're always going to be on the look out for the priorities as they change , cos once the person stops breathing they become unconscious , they stop breathing , their heart stops , then everything else has to wait and you have to try and get on with that , okay ? |
| 18 | What I do n't want is to do it so seldom that he gets angry ; because he does if he has to wait too long . |
| 19 | The chief executive may know what change is needed , but has to wait for the right time to introduce it . |
| 20 | Our return DMU entering the station as we disembarked with the comfortable words from our guard — ‘ No hurry , now — it has to wait for me ! ’ |
| 21 | Robinson has a daughter who has to wait 12 months for an operation , it is no use telling her that 10 , 20 , or 25 years ago the situation was similar or much worse , because Mrs. Jones or Mrs. Robinson will still consider that the NHS is unsatisfactory today , and will naturally blame the Government . |
| 22 | Great difficulties arise if an aged person , who has probably just been released from hospital and who is very ill , can not manage in what is usually a two-storey house where the facilities are upstairs , and has to wait 13 months before the application for downstairs facilities is even sanctioned . |
| 23 | Over the past few days , police officers have asked me why a community has to wait until someone is injured or killed before an offender is sent to prison for a lengthy period . |
| 24 | Since job D has to wait for completion of B , and only B , before it can start , the early start for D is 7 . |
| 25 | An announcement in May confirming the selection of Glasgow removed earlier uncertainty , although final confirmation has to wait for a further consultation period until the end of June . |
| 26 | Since job D has to wait for completion of B , and only B , before it can start , the early start for D is 7 . |
| 27 | Clearly , the development of futures markets in such countries has to wait until futures contracts are legally enforceable . |
| 28 | It can not simply withhold performance and wait to be sued : if it does , the other party merely has to wait until expiry of the contractual time bar period and then sue . |
| 29 | Even the Chancellor of Oxford University , Roy Jenkins , has to wait outside on the steps of the Clarendon buildings on a cold November morning , when the Sultan of Brunei is in town . |
| 30 | Instead he has to wait a week for next Saturday 's Victoria Ground clash with Swansea . |