Example sentences of "[noun] to wait [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Whenever I saw her , she always smiled at me , It was as if she 'd got me confused with someone else , someone important Once I had half an hour to wait for a transport .
2 The simplest method would have been for a French submarine to wait for the Rainbow Warrior somewhere on the high seas and sink it with a torpedo but that posed the problem of what to do with any survivors .
3 They 'd stopped in Port Patrick harbour to wait for the tide .
4 I said I 've been waiting six months now , I 've given my life six months to wait for a job , I said , you ca n't get experience if you 're not given chances
5 You must agree that you need talent and persona to wait on a table and wit , tact and conversation to serve at a bar .
6 With a giggle , Terry helped her carry her luggage back to her room , then dragged her back downstairs and along to the village to wait for the bus .
7 Maxim had an hour and a half to wait for a train to Osnabrück , and half changed his mind about hiring a car , but that meant lots of signatures , and might be difficult to hand back if he flew home on a trooping flight from RAF Gütersloh .
8 We stopped for half an hour in Reading to wait for a connection . ’
9 But then , instead of making a hasty retreat , they lurked around the airfield buildings to wait for the explosions .
10 These salads come into production faster than traditional lettuces as there is no need to wait for the plants to mature .
11 Also , the point of sharing would come much earlier as there is no need to wait for the completion of a ‘ book ’ before it goes to a central access point .
12 ( 5 ) Because of the exemption for anything done in pursuance of a scheme of arrangement under s153(3) ( e ) , it should in theory be possible for financial assistance proposed to be provided as part of the Court Scheme to be implemented immediately ( because the target is bound by the scheme when it becomes effective ) without the need to wait for the target to be re-registered as a private company and the private company exemption procedure followed .
13 Oxfordshire in 1962 still had ten years to wait before the reorganization of local government which followed the Royal Commission on that subject chaired by Lord Redcliffe-Maud ( John Maud ) .
14 I must ask my right hon. Friend to wait for an answer to his question about persistent offenders .
15 Not long afterwards she left the cabin , and Edward returned to his bunk to wait for the ship to sail , to take him back to Sweden .
16 I followed him , telling the servants to wait in the hall .
17 After only eight lessons Arlene asked Paula to wait at the end of class .
18 Baroness said she found it absolutely accept unacceptable for patients to wait in the corridor on trolleys .
19 ‘ I 'm having a shower before breakfast , ’ Steve called out to her , and with a sigh of relief Ruth sank to a kitchen chair to wait for the kettle to boil .
20 He told the young man to wait in the hall .
21 Speaking before the ASEAN standing committee in September 1984 , the Malaysian Foreign Minister declared that it would be a mistake to wait for a solution to the Kampuchean problem before making attempts to implement the idea of the zone of peace , freedom and neutrality .
22 You can use GET and GET$ whenever you want your program to wait for a reply before continuing .
23 Lastly , the GCSE requires pupils to wait for the length of a two-year course before they can know whether they have been successful , whereas a record of achievement is only the most recent and perhaps summarizing statement of progress which the pupils themselves have monitored and recorded .
24 Seven days — a week — is a long time to wait for a telephone service nowadays .
25 Forty years may be a long time to wait for a 19p basic rate of tax .
26 With no time to wait for an ambulance , Colin , 27 , rang the midwife who issued instructions as he dashed up and down the stairs between the phone and the bathroom .
27 The only way they could get any semblance of acting was for Alex to speak a whole sentence , Michael to wait for the end , and then repeat it .
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