Example sentences of "[conj] wait for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Buy a 944 — or wait for the forthcoming 968 . |
| 2 | But rather than wait for the English to be lured on to these snares , he decided to launch the first attack himself . |
| 3 | Rather than wait for the groaning lift , I use the stairs . |
| 4 | ‘ They find accommodation where they set up a nursery , then sit back and wait for the right opportunity to arise . |
| 5 | They could either follow their husbands into battle , taking their children with them , or they could stay at home , unprotected and unsupported and wait for the pillaging Parliamentarians or the papist Royalists to capture them and confiscate their property . |
| 6 | The creatures of the open sea , then , live either in the plankton ; or live in the waters beneath and browse upon the plankton — or live upon the browsers ; or they live on the bottom , and wait for the planktonic manna to rain upon them from above ; or they feed on the creatures that feed upon the bottom . |
| 7 | There were no books in the room so all I could do was look out of the window and wait for the quarterly chimes from the Cathedral Clock . |
| 8 | Enjoy the ride down , let the wind fly through your hair , go with the flow , and wait for the big crash . |
| 9 | In fact , you can argue and remonstrate until you are blue in the face but certain plans or arrangements can not be progressed just yet and you must simply sit tight and wait for the Full Moon in Aries on the 14th before making any drastic changes or decisions . |
| 10 | Instead of waiting a matter of seconds for the lights to change , the hapless riders either remain in the saddle , take a chance when they see a gap in the traffic , or get off and wait for the green man . |
| 11 | They are doubly attracted when it is clear to them that any movement will be all one way , and where all they have to do is to bide their time and wait for the inevitable profits . |
| 12 | Dad 's Army and waiting for the final push — ( l-r ) Hill , Teague ( obscured ) , Winterbottom , Dooley , Probyn and Ackford ( the only one to have retired so far ) . |
| 13 | But much of Operation Gemini is about surveilance , observing known criminals and waiting for the right time to move in and make arrests , of which there have been more than a hundred and twenty since the operation started four weeks ago . |
| 14 | I hurried along keeping close to a wall and waiting for the inevitable mortar burst that would follow in the path of the jeep . |
| 15 | It felt rather like laying herself in front of an approaching juggernaut and waiting for the inevitable annihilation to follow … |
| 16 | Barton Lynch , sitting out the qualifying rounds and waiting for the main event , recalled the 1988 Billabong , which for the first time had been held at Pipeline . |
| 17 | You do not warm to this lady , who delivers her lines to camera as if waiting for the canned laughter . |
| 18 | He withheld the signal until the range was close enough to be deadly , and the stocky Welsh ponies were stretching their frenzied necks and rigid nostrils for the impact , and then flung up his arm , and waited for the tremendous thrumming in the air , that maddening , intoxicating sound like a thousand wild geese all taking flight at once . |
| 19 | He turned on the shower and waited for the hot water to flow through so that he could adjust the temperature . |
| 20 | He prepared the altar for Mass , opened the-door and waited for the small trickle of his congregation to enter . |
| 21 | The fifteen-year-old boy leapt from his bed with escape in mind , but he decided it would be unfair to leave his eleven-year-old brother to face what was to come alone , so he got back into bed and waited for the social workers to come upstairs . |
| 22 | Yanto closed his eyes and waited for the inevitable . |
| 23 | Gathering her courage together , she descended from the gig and waited for the old man to precede her across the porch . |
| 24 | The Company did not send expeditions of its own into this area for over a century ; like the East India and the Royal Africa Companies it established trading posts and waited for the local inhabitants to come and trade at them . |
| 25 | I polished off the lager , put my feet up and waited for the editorial meeting . |
| 26 | But there was a flat period just after lunch when there seemed nothing to do but wait for the special meeting at half past three . |
| 27 | While waiting for the great day we watched nearly every match of the 1990 World Cup , particularly the progress of England and Ireland in the early rounds . |