Example sentences of "[verb] to wait for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't want to wait for the baby to appear through the navel . |
| 2 | We do not need to wait for the Reeve 's Tale for a fabliau in which the Miller can be identified with a target figure : the Miller 's Tale itself links its dramatic teller , the Miller , with John the carpenter as John repeats the Miller 's axiom found in the Miller 's Prologue : in his own homespun wisdom : — a valuing of ignorance which Nicholas is able to play upon ( 3558 ) . |
| 3 | This also meant that they could get away earlier at night after the show , as they did n't need to wait for the curtain . |
| 4 | In May 1991 , after 30 years of bitter civil war , Eritrea broke away from Ethiopia , but has to wait for the referendum officially to declare itself an independent state . |
| 5 | In May 1991 , after 30 years of bitter civil war , Eritrea broke away from Ethiopia , but has to wait for the referendum officially to declare itself an independent state . |
| 6 | There was full consultation between family heads at each stage of the project and only a handful of families , mostly shop-owners , opted to wait for the Government supply which reached Perteguhan 18 months later . |
| 7 | The Ferryhill driver has also been instructed to wait for the arrival of the Crook bus before pulling out . |
| 8 | They would have been less well advised to move from temporary obligation to redemption if they had had to wait for the money which the peasants owed them , but the government realized that peasants were in no position to redeem their obligations overnight and advanced most of the money to which nobles were entitled in the form of interest-bearing bonds . |
| 9 | It is ironical that the Court composers should have had to wait for the establishment of the Commonwealth before their songs were published . |
| 10 | How long would America have had to wait for the Community to pull all its members behind a common policy ? |
| 11 | If you er , if the people of West Sussex a couple of weeks ago , when there was flooding around Chichester , they 're actually going to wait for the waters to evaporate . |
| 12 | Always feel you are going to wait for the club to arrive and keep your head behind the shot . |
| 13 | I 've got to wait for the man ! |
| 14 | He has n't , got to wait for the things to come the , the bed and the car and er they have n't ordered a carpet yet |
| 15 | Print enthusiasts will have to wait for the publication of David Landau and Peter Parshall 's forthcoming book on Renaissance printmaking to be published by Yale University Press next year for a full discussion of such matters . |
| 16 | The Romans did no have to wait for the Greeks to discover that they were mortals . |
| 17 | O'Neill 's suspect views were known to many unionists and the conservatives did not have to wait for the fruits of O'Neillism , however timid they may have been . |
| 18 | The part has an enlarged on-chip primary write-back cache rather than the write-through cache of the 80486 , which means that the CPU does not have to wait for the cache controller to copy stored data back to main memory . |
| 19 | The new edict is that we will have to wait for the year 2000 to land anywhere in space other than on the Moon . |
| 20 | We shall have to wait for the year 2017 to see what the culture-ideology of consumerism makes of the Bolshevik revolution ! |
| 21 | More sweeping changes to deal with the threat of global warming will have to wait for the Government 's environment white paper under discussion in cabinet committee . |
| 22 | ’ Does an employer have to wait for the government to push her into saying ’ This is a human being ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ And of course the Pistols will have to wait for the return of better weather . ’ |
| 24 | And to complete the picture there is an example of an unconserved clock … but visitors may have to wait for the Museum of Scotland to see this one tick ! |
| 25 | ‘ It is certainly very strange but we will have to wait for the outcome of an investigation . ’ |
| 26 | Alloa , with a 52-0 victory over Cambuslang , and Livingston , with a 14-13 win against Linlithgow , stay in Division Four but Linlithgow will have to wait for the result of Cartha Queen 's Park 's final match before their fate is known against the already relegated Lismore . |
| 27 | ‘ For heaven 's sake , you 'll have to wait for the autopsy . |
| 28 | Will he now change his mind or shall we have to wait for the people to do that for him ? |
| 29 | We will have to wait for the Donaldson report , which covers the whole country . ’ |
| 30 | Although nationalists could express themselves freely in cultural terms , their aspiration for a united Ireland would have to wait for the ballot box to decide . |