Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] wait for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He was really looking forward to being a father and could not wait for the birth . |
| 2 | According to one report , people could hardly wait for the attack to start , and everybody wanted to be present at Britain 's impending defeat . |
| 3 | Nevertheless he always remained undaunted and could hardly wait for the winding up of his previous effort before starting to plan its successor . |
| 4 | In the all ticket days you could often wait for the first coach from Leeds to turn up and they would have 20+ tickets for us poor souls who could nt get one ! ! |
| 5 | In the all ticket days you could often wait for the first coach from Leeds to turn up and they would have 20+ tickets for us poor souls who could nt get one ! ! |
| 6 | I could n't wait for the pictures to come out , I was so excited to see them . |
| 7 | great , I could n't wait For the life of Mrs |
| 8 | could n't wait For the life of Mrs |
| 9 | could n't wait For the life of Mrs Riley . |
| 10 | As Goffmann points out , the end of conversational encounters carry an increased risk of creating offence — in the sense that careless or perfunctory termination may convey the misleading impression that one could n't wait for the session to end and that as far as one was concerned the whole episode was a waste of time . |
| 11 | I could n't wait for the air raids . |
| 12 | I could n't wait for the bell to ring at four in the afternoon when class would end and I could bang my lid for the last time before running all the way down the Whitechapel Road to help out on the barrow . |
| 13 | But , for her part , Shiona could barely wait for the iniquitous ordeal to come to an end . |
| 14 | Taking up the points made in recent days by Mr Tony Blair , Labour 's employment spokesman , and the TUC , Mr Fowler said the dismantling of the closed shop need not wait for the passage of the bill . |
| 15 | For the time being she was excused from her prop-room duties and she need n't wait for the curtain call . |
| 16 | I ca n't wait for the summer . |
| 17 | An absolute winner — I ca n't wait for the new items in the series . |
| 18 | Somebody Who Ca n't Wait For The New Morrissey Record , Milan |
| 19 | Having used a good CAVOK day absorbing its contents , I ca n't wait for the chance to get out and put some of Harvey Plourde 's theories to the test in my Champ — Bob Grimstead . |
| 20 | I ca n't wait for the next get-together , and the thought of pulling on that old white shirt again excites me . |
| 21 | He admitted last night : ‘ I ca n't wait for the players to find their feet in the Premier League . ’ |
| 22 | Like everyone else who has attended the Cathay Pacific Hongkong Bank Sevens , I ca n't wait for the next one . |
| 23 | I ca n't wait for the mini series . |
| 24 | ‘ Because you ca n't wait for the time when you 'll be a married woman ? ’ |
| 25 | I ca n't wait for the teacher 's watch to say 4.30 so I can go home . |
| 26 | I ca n't wait for the next revelations . |
| 27 | Ha Ha Ha I ca n't wait for the bullshit to flow as they try to explain away this one . |
| 28 | Ca n't wait for the dogs . |
| 29 | McAllister or Strach would feed it out to Sharp ( who was absolutely brill — see below ) who would either wait for the overlap from Dorigo or take on Breacker ( skinning him most of the time ) . |
| 30 | The speed is almost enough to lever a Windows user out of his comfortable environment and back into DOS ( but some of us will just wait for the Windows version ! ) . |