Example sentences of "wait [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had some experience of this when I lived at home , having to wait hours for the district nurses . |
| 2 | He was one of the lucky ones , some had to wait hours , even days , he said . |
| 3 | Now he 's been told to stop doing a good turn for pensioners and others who otherwise have to wait minutes for a gap in the traffic . |
| 4 | National Westminster has announced four thousand redundancies and yet you still have to wait ages in the queue at the bank , why is that ? |
| 5 | Well we 'll have to wait Kelly Ann , will we do ? |
| 6 | My money was due on the 11th , and when I have posted this , my last stamp will be spent , and I shall have to wait 'till she remembers . |
| 7 | We still have to wait months for payment of vitally important benefits such as the attendance allowance . |
| 8 | I was fascinated by our shiny mahogany Sobell wireless set as a kid , and would wait hours for Dick Barton to emerge from the back . |
| 9 | It is this incredible flexibility that allows us to juggle page layouts in just a few minutes and produce a fresh piece of artwork each time rather than wait hours , even days , for the re-worked page to come back from the artist 's studio . |
| 10 | I made him wait hours . |
| 11 | If you 've got a , if you 're linked to a big file and you got a lot of linking formulae , you can wait hours for it to finish . |
| 12 | Could wait hours . |
| 13 | She must wait months , if not years , for an interview with an Entry Clearance Officer at a British diplomatic mission on the Indian subcontinent , go through endless interrogations about such subjects as the colour of the family 's goat or the number of rooms in the house she lives in or how many guests there were at the wedding and what happened on the wedding night . |
| 14 | you can wait months sometimes . |
| 15 | I might go out and buy it straight away , I might wait weeks , months before I acquire the particular thing to give to you as a gift , you 've got ta wait on on me giving it to you . |
| 16 | I may be a little late so do n't wait supper for me . |
| 17 | Well I think I would wait Stefan until the oily film had gone off the top of the water for tender plants but then I am one of these people that would always tender plants with tap water anyway because you never know what 's in do you in rain water , anything can congregate in a pot , it can be infected with all sorts of things and I would just use this water on the garden in the first twelve months or so or use it on shrubs and things like that if it was required and then go on to er things like perennials but then you could use it on almost anything but with the proviso that you may have contamination in that water if it 's from Water Board . |
| 18 | Sum people ca n't wait patient . |
| 19 | It can measure it and wait hours . |
| 20 | So the first thing we do is to change hands , that 's good , push , wait change sides , straighten up the tiller , look where you 're going that 's fine . |
| 21 | Wait mum look . |
| 22 | Wait mum he can do five moves . |
| 23 | Wait mum |
| 24 | They have to make a huge effort , spend large amounts of money and often wait months , even years , to trace their son or daughter . |
| 25 | Guerrillas wait 2l years for death row |
| 26 | Taking Jane Rowe 's Children Who Wait study ( 1973 ) he then compares it with another American study ( Goldstein et al . , |
| 27 | Sit and wait tactics may be your best option here , for a few hours at least . |
| 28 | Such men bear grudges , they wait years to settle accounts . ’ |
| 29 | Wait Lis , I ai n't got the things on . |
| 30 | If Dr De Melker feels that a watch and wait policy is warranted , how long should that period be ? |