Example sentences of "[conj] wait [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well look the first thing to occur and immediately comes to mind is that if I was going to be really evil I would I 'd just stick it away in a quite drawer or wait until the day , and I 'd turn up when she was breaking the the bottle , the empty bottle over over the the skip , we 'd do a picture of her actually littering up the countryside . |
| 2 | By seeming to do little more than wait for the economy to get better by itself , President Bush condemned himself . |
| 3 | We walk down to the shore in the warm drizzling rain and wait at the quayside . |
| 4 | okay colleague , come and wait at the front , alright . |
| 5 | It might seem a smaller risk to stick to stores and wait for a retailing boom to return . |
| 6 | They 've given her something and she , she had to put this stuff on her hair , had to take a trip to the hairdresser and he said to the hairdresser comb my hair first and then put this stuff on and wait for a fortnight and it did come a little lighter , but it was n't much |
| 7 | of your block of flats and wait for a sign . |
| 8 | He said she was to go to Ludgate Circus , stand on the south corner of Fleet Street at 6.30 p.m. and wait for a cab to pull in and pick her up . |
| 9 | Yesterday West Yorkshire officers advised women to stay in their cars and wait for a patrol if they break down . |
| 10 | The resulting larvae sit on the sand or climb up any grass present and wait for a mammal to pass by . |
| 11 | Pluck a London-based journalist out of the office ; put him or her on a train with a party heavyweight ; and wait for a slice of prime grassroots ham to arrive . |
| 12 | If he , Neil , was content to leave the house unwatched by day , and to spend his time looking at rocks on the broch island , then I could stay indoors with a clear conscience , and wait for the rainstorm to pass . |
| 13 | Many so-called estate agents merely place advertisements and wait for the telephone to ring , which is not a successful method , particularly in a poor market like this . ’ |
| 14 | The supposition being that it 's always easier for the offspring just to sit on the nest and wait for the parent . |
| 15 | ‘ We 'll sit tight and wait for the storm to blow itself out . ’ |
| 16 | I had to be patient and wait for the tide to turn , ’ he said . |
| 17 | What Robbins has , very cleverly , done is to drop a match into the murky kerosene of American politics and wait for the explosion . |
| 18 | The flat unleavened bread recalls the haste of their departure ( no time to use yeast and wait for the bread to rise ) . |
| 19 | Do not bombard the water with groundbait and feed , but begin with the ‘ little and often ’ approach and wait for the fishing to develop . |
| 20 | Seated in one of Kanazawa Industrial University library 's viewing booths , they just pick the tape they want to see front the list displayed , punch in its number , then sit back and wait for the programme to start . |
| 21 | But grypesh do much the same as we do : they hole up and wait for the weather to pass . ’ |
| 22 | It was only after they had peered into and groped about in what they felt certain was the right cave but found nothing that they decided to withdraw into the trees and wait for the dawn . |
| 23 | Many anglers arrive for a couple of days fishing and seem quite happy to bivvy up in one swim and wait for the zander to arrive . |
| 24 | Silent amid the crowd 's applause , they breathe deeply and steadily as they mount the bike , control the trembling of the hands and wait for the time-keeper 's ‘ Allez ! ’ |
| 25 | In fact , all a person would need to do in the middle of a Darkfall storm would be to remain calm , not touch anything — unless he or she is wearing gloves and wait for the effect to pass . |
| 26 | Agents were pondering whether they should n't ‘ hang on to thee rights , and wait for the time when they 're equipped to sell them , ’ as conference chairman Tony Feldman put it later . |
| 27 | Later , you pull up your pants and wait for the pain to go away . |
| 28 | If you are not sure you can cope , take an oven timer , turn it round to half a minute and wait for the bell to ring . |
| 29 | After that , I sit on our front step and wait for the ambulance . |
| 30 | Against this background of craters and devastated buildings people sit in the sun at cafes open again for a town which has nothing else to do but drink coffee and wait for the future . |