Example sentences of "[adv] to wait " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's his mother again , ’ she said , stopping suddenly to wait for Marjorie , another woman in the group , who was lagging behind . |
| 2 | You 'd do better to wait . ’ |
| 3 | Dummett , architect of anti-realism as successor to verificationism , offers the most introductory account I know in Dummett ( 1978 , ch. 10 ) but if you are new to this area you would do better to wait until you have read ch. 9 of the present book before attempting it . |
| 4 | It 's laughable , afraid of a storm but brave enough to wait in the dark down by the river and bash your friend over the head . |
| 5 | But most teachers with amorous intent are wise enough to wait until the girls are in the sixth form . |
| 6 | Then another gap , just six months , before he got a barmaid from Ipswich who 'd been visiting her granny and was daft enough to wait alone for the late bus . |
| 7 | Music might be shit , but life itself is fully equipped to deliver magic if you stick around long enough to wait for it . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm old enough to wait without being hurt for people to let me in again , ’ she said lightly , hoping that he had listened to what she said and understood its application to himself . |
| 9 | Ten months is quite long enough to wait and you should try to get back to the specialist for another course of the ‘ kick-start ’ treatment . |
| 10 | I was also smart enough to wait three weeks , so it was at her request I departed in the end . |
| 11 | I 'll see that she gets the letters , if you 'll be good enough to wait in the guard-room . ’ |
| 12 | The Irish are patient enough to wait for a lucky break . |
| 13 | The appropriate strategy is perhaps to wait to determine whether the Japanese businessman is prepared to offer his hand for a handshake or whether he is going to bow . |
| 14 | Ramsay , forming his men into a lengthy line four deep , had not long to wait before the high wailing of a hunting-horn sounded in the windy gloom , for his group had probably had furthest to ride . |
| 15 | They had not long to wait to discover whether Edward was in earnest or not . |
| 16 | Not long to wait . |
| 17 | This was to pay dividends , and we had not long to wait . |
| 18 | There may not be long to wait . |
| 19 | This Friday Geraldine settled down to wait for Newsnight . |
| 20 | Her moment of complete despair had come when Doyle switched on the radio and sat down to wait and see what happened . |
| 21 | She put a red plastic bowl on the refrigerator floor and sat down to wait for the ice to melt . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | At what they supposed to be the rendezvous they sat down to wait , unaware that a relief patrol of the LRDG had been sent out to pick them up — from a different place . |
| 24 | Two large boulders were rolled on to the road and they sat down to wait , guns at the ready . |
| 25 | The rest of us settled down to wait . |
| 26 | They were closely followed by the children who settled down to wait for their treasure trove . |
| 27 | Furious , she sat down to wait for the next vehicle . |
| 28 | After sending Bacci off to get himself a coffee from the Brigadier who was losing his patience with a recruit in the kitchen , the Captain shut out the noise and sat down to wait , glancing now and then at his watch . |
| 29 | I consider joining the retreating pair below me but have no harness for the abseil , so I settle down to wait while the climber above seconds the pitch . |
| 30 | He dusted off a box and sat down to wait for them . |