Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] wait [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never sit about waiting for the result of one interview . |
| 2 | Britain and Hong Kong have apparently decided against waiting for the Steering Committee of the UN Conference on Indo-Chinese refugees to meet on January 18 before reviewing the situation . |
| 3 | They loved stories that tripped off her tongue as easily as other women talked about waiting in the check-out queue at Tescos . |
| 4 | Bill Morrison was posted here during the war and amazed everyone by contacting the hotel in 1991 to return one of their beer glasses which he had had since waiting at the bar one night during the way only to have them run out of beer . |
| 5 | I did n't want to have to hang about waiting for the attendant to open lockers . |
| 6 | In the last month before war was declared , families who were still on the waiting list for places on the Kindertransporte , but knew they had little chance of moving up the queue , took to waiting at the main rail stations , watching and hoping . |
| 7 | This feeling was exacerbated by waiting for the guide to translate . |
| 8 | The long punters will have plenty of sport with that one though there could be considerable confusion at a quick kick where the revised law says that it may be taken without waiting for the kicker 's team to retire behind the ball — provided they do not become involved in play . |
| 9 | Before her conversion , she would doubtless have insisted on waiting for the results of a number of studies being conducted by an international panel on climatic change set up by the World Meteorological Organisation and the United Nations Environmental Programme . |
| 10 | There was even a story , not necessarily apocryphal , that when a message arrived to tell one of the teachers that his father had died , Clive had insisted on waiting until the lunch break before passing it on . |
| 11 | Most of the time is consumed by waiting for the various processes of typesetting , page design and layout , proofing and so on to occur . |
| 12 | This policy has allowed the preparation of the Phoenix on data processing and computer science , for instance , which was published without waiting for the twentieth edition . |