Example sentences of "[verb] wait [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a corner he stopped to wait for a break in the traffic . |
| 2 | Every time he has to wait for a question , he claims victory . |
| 3 | Each call sent out by a client has to wait for a response before another is sent . |
| 4 | Each call sent out by a client has to wait for a response before another is sent . |
| 5 | What happens if Well , oh sa , pwurgh , I do n't know , I mean she has to wait for a week . |
| 6 | And it 's frightening because I know people die waiting for a transplant . |
| 7 | Here it sits waiting for a dose of stress to weaken your immune system when out it pops . |
| 8 | This puts industry off voluntary controls and it tends to wait for a law to be brought in . |
| 9 | Ebert , Fest and I. We were after the assassins of the T'ang 's Minister , Lwo Kang , and had been told to wait for a contact from our Triad connections there . |
| 10 | The driver simply halted wherever people collected waiting for a ride rather like today 's bus request stops . |
| 11 | I decided to wait for a review — you know what Microsoft 's other support lines are like . |
| 12 | But they may have to wait for a year , and maybe even two , before the brief , dramatic cycle can begin all over again . |
| 13 | To find its most lasting realization , Charlie 's vision would have to wait for a bank clerk who did understand metempsychosis , and who had not only a commercial education gained in an underground room at Lloyds Bank , but also a knowledge of Greek . |
| 14 | At Darlington , so that they would not have to wait for a connection , they had hired a special train to Richmond , where they were met . |
| 15 | I also think that erm it 's up to erm us — I mean if you think of us as a whole travel industry — to really take a look at what we are providing and compare it with what is provided in other countries ; the standards of service , how long do you have to wait for a meal when you 're sitting down to eat in a restaurant , what are people used to in France and Germany and the USA ? |
| 16 | On February 27 she was told only a heart transplant would save her husband 's life and they would have to wait for a donor . |
| 17 | IF tomorrow 's semi-final between Liverpool and Portsmouth at Highbury requires a replay , it will have to wait until a week on Monday , because of Thursday 's General Election . |
| 18 | Does the Minister agree with the view therefore , that nurses that nurses should be given the authority to admit patients to hospital provided there is a bed without having to wait for a decision to be to be made by a doctor ? |
| 19 | Here , unfortunately , no restaurant area is yet available to allow customers to eat what they buy where they buy it , but the time spent waiting for a takeaway sandwich will be an invaluable education in Italian food . |
| 20 | Only child Adele wrote after reading about a local teenager who died waiting for a swap op . |
| 21 | Keep waiting to a minimum |
| 22 | on the other hand , a school with a high rate of staff turnover can not usually afford to wait for a consensus and readiness that may never come ; and a staff hand-picked in a new school , or for a new school situation such as amalgamation or unstreaming , is usually in a mood for bigger adventures . |
| 23 | Plus of course the attendant horrors for someone normally so well-groomed to have to wait for a face plastered with scabs and unshaveable stubble to heal . |
| 24 | Brides do not tremble , they fuss ; bridesmaids even more so , and men stand about sheepishly , collies waiting for a whistle telling them what to do . |
| 25 | Lloyd George would never have wasted time there at all , but he might have chosen the Strand Magazine had he been left waiting upon a railway platform . |
| 26 | Eventually , well into the afternoon , we found the route — but had to wait for a couple who pushed in front claiming they were ‘ HVS climbers ’ and would not take long . |
| 27 | He reached it without mishap but had to wait for a while , watching the day begin , until the ferrymaster arrived . |
| 28 | But they had to wait for a host of their rivals to commit pop suicide before they could begin the job of moulding this new discovery . |
| 29 | Well that was the , the erm union for us , erm I think erm one of the great assets of being in public transport was that we were in a local erm pension scheme , erm when , when we in the office started , we had to wait until we were eighteen and then we had to wait for a vacancy because there was a limited number of people that the Council were prepared to back by paying a similar amount . |
| 30 | Clare was fired for turning up late after she had to wait for a doctor because Josh had a temperature . |