Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] to wait [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Half the kids stay to wait in line . |
| 2 | The Security Council agreed to wait until March 10 before deciding action . |
| 3 | She sat with her until the exhaustion of grief finally drove Ana to sleep and silence , then Maggie went to wait for Felipe . |
| 4 | He struggled towards an understanding of continuity , though the work had to wait for Newton and Gottfried Leibnitz to produce an infinitesimal calculus to master this difficulty . |
| 5 | Talking of Hampshire reminds us that the left-arm spinner Ian Turner had to wait till August before getting a Championship match . |
| 6 | Birth parents have to wait for adoptees to choose to contact them and may therefore experience feelings of desperation and anticipation around the time when the adoptee would be 18 years old . |
| 7 | LAST YEAR Andy Nicol had to wait until August — five months after the event — to hold his 21st birthday party . |
| 8 | Male and female responses to the static models could have differed because crested auklet males tend to wait for females to approach , then aggressively reject unwanted partners , whereas females are more active in seeking out and approaching males ( although both sexes show either type of behaviour ) . |
| 9 | Some people had to wait for parents to pick them up . |
| 10 | Doctors have been working over weekends to reduce the time patients have to wait for operations . |
| 11 | DR 's GEM was happily running on Intel 8088-powered XT machines whilst Bill Gates had to wait for Tandy 's Intel 80186 processor powered PC , just to make version 1.0 of Windows run efficiently . |
| 12 | Haymo , although selected by the monks of Rochester as their next choice had to wait until August 1319 , before he was consecrated Bishop . |
| 13 | Sales started to tumble just as dealings in the shares began , but Stock Exchange rules meant boss Tim Parker had to wait until September to warn the market . |
| 14 | IF DODGE City and Tombstone had to wait for movie star-type heroes to save them from the outlaws who were over-running the communities , would they stand by the lawmen if it looked like the bad guys were n't going to stay beat ? |
| 15 | Children in Italy have to wait until January for their presents . |
| 16 | Since job D has to wait for completion of B , and only B , before it can start , the early start for D is 7 . |
| 17 | Since job D has to wait for completion of B , and only B , before it can start , the early start for D is 7 . |
| 18 | So students will in any case have to wait until Tuesday . |