Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] wait a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I expected to wait a while for a spawning , but within two weeks they surprised me . |
| 2 | and rung the A A , so as I got through to the A A man I says erm , you know , I says I , where I was parked and all like that and where I was stood and the chap says oh I 'll get a , a van up to ya as soon as I can , but I says wait a minute , I says my car 's just arrived and Joan was the mechanic , he lifted bonnet up and touched something and you brought it down did n't you ? |
| 3 | I know wait a minute , wait a minute , I 've got a better idea . |
| 4 | But I decided to wait a while before speaking . |
| 5 | Apparently , if I had waited a bit longer prices would have been much higher . |
| 6 | I have to wait a while before I get a second chub , but it is worth it for this one weighs 4lb 10oz and fights like a demon . |
| 7 | Ah I see wait a minute . |
| 8 | ‘ You mean wait a couple of months ? |
| 9 | ‘ Would you prefer to wait a moment , to collect your thoughts and prepare yourself spiritually ? ’ asked the ambience . |
| 10 | FRANCIS AMPOFO , who has waited a year to reclaim the British flyweight title , tonight challenges Scotland 's James Drummond in London . |
| 11 | I do n't know , wait a minute till I see if I can where can I , can you see wait a minute , I 'll show James first . |
| 12 | Yeah oh yeah I did n't work anywhere else in Willenhall at all , and erm but we 'd got to be in for seven o'clock and if erm you were n't in for seven o'clock and sometimes I used to hear the bell began ringing when I got to go around the corner and get into the , but you had to wait a quarter of an hour before they would let you in and that was stopped off your money and my wage was eight and fourpence a week . |
| 13 | As my hon. Friend rightly pointed out , no patient in his area waits for more than two years and there has been a dramatic fall in the number of those who have to wait a year . |
| 14 | She added : ‘ Even if you have to wait a year , it 's a long time if you 're worried about it . ’ |
| 15 | You have to wait a minute ! |
| 16 | Could n't they have waited a bit longer after the expense of Christmas ? |
| 17 | you see I moved a bit more now but and I I 've still got good hearing er apart from this ear here , this ear , I ca n't hear so well , quite so well , this side , you see so I always have to say excuse me while I , hang on while I turn off the television , you see , and then they have to wait a minute till I turn it off and then what I do is because I have this phone extension put in |
| 18 | Instead he has to wait a week for next Saturday 's Victoria Ground clash with Swansea . |
| 19 | It it it 's not the sort of thing when the gas man calls that the man is being having a gun pointed at him he says wait a minute can I see your card please . |
| 20 | He had to wait a quarter of an hour , but six or seven minutes after that he was climbing the weedy steps to the quay on the other side . |
| 21 | Now he wished he had waited a year and a half and done the same thing here . |
| 22 | But he said wait a minute I hear him coming down the stairs . |