Example sentences of "[modal v] wait a [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | But David Townsend , director of Croydon SSD , has complained to Herbert Laming , SSI chief inspector , that inspectors should wait a few months for the reforms to bed down . |
2 | ‘ If it 's all right by you , I 'll wait a few minutes until the storm subsides , ’ Vitor said , as thunder boomed again . |
3 | But he added that patience had limits and he might wait a few days or two weeks . |
4 | But he added that patience had limits and he might wait a few days or two weeks . |
5 | When my mother and I called on him he said that if we could wait a few days he would find the right frame and have it stove-enamelled black . |
6 | I would wait a few weeks to see if it grows or clears up of its own accord and if it is still there , go to the vet . |
7 | He would wait a few days before having his hair cut , so that they could not think that they had made him . |
8 | Throughout the next two years I had lost interest in the game I would wait a few months and then in a space of a week I would go and have a few games it was n't until 1993 early January that I started playing regularly again I was determined to get a handicap and play in a few competitions sometime that year . |
9 | I can wait a few days . ’ |