Example sentences of "to wait [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In relation to PC Cherry , who had to wait the same period before being summonsed , Lord Justice Watkins said the delay after April 1987 , when there was ample evidence to sustain a prima facie case against him , was ‘ undoubtedly extreme ’ . |
| 2 | Paul , her husband , generally left before seven and had lunch out with one of his friends , while she used her free day to take care of a thousand chores more annoying than the duties of her job : she had to go to the post office and fret for half an hour in a queue , go shopping in the supermarket , where she quarrelled with the saleswoman and wasted time waiting at the check-out , telephone the plumber and plead with him to be precisely on time so that she would n't have to wait the whole day for him . |
| 3 | As for me , I had to wait the whole summer and into the late autumn for rehearsals of The Jungle Book to begin , so I went back to South London , happy in the knowledge that soon I 'd be in a professional production and there 'd be someone in the cast for me to fall in love with . |
| 4 | They were transferred to kennels to wait the statutory seven days for their owner to reclaim them . |
| 5 | The reaction of local farmers to this disruption of their normal farming activity was to wait the situation out , as they expected a high price for their lands . |
| 6 | Duncan had wanted to wait the few hours it would take to fix the Citation and run checks on it , but Myeloski was anxious to get to Tobolsk . |
| 7 | At the same time the regulators , too , need to know where things have gone wrong and they can not afford to wait the year or eighteen months necessary to conduct an investigation in depth before taking corrective action . |
| 8 | Cloners outside the Sparc International Executive Committee have been able to place orders since August and get at least sample quantities , but they reportedly have had to wait the ‘ industry average ’ of fourteen to eighteen weeks to get volumes . |
| 9 | You 've got no option but to wait the five years . |
| 10 | She 'd had to wait the best part of a month at Holmsly Manor , and then everything had happened at once . |
| 11 | I have n't got to wait the whole week . |
| 12 | IF you are depressed or anxious , having relationship difficulties or worried about work , finding a qualified counsellor to talk things over with is n't always easy — especially if you ca n't afford fees of between £15 and £30 an hour , or do n't feel able to wait the weeks or even months it can take to get an appointment . |
| 13 | But the poem of his that he most needed reassurance about was Homage to Sextus Propertius ( 1919 ) , and for that he had to wait a long time . |
| 14 | So if , as seems likely , we have to wait a long time for a follow up to the triumphant Glyndebourne production , we should be all the more grateful for occasions like the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra 's concert performance ( sponsored by English Estates ) . |
| 15 | All Eddie did was to wait a bit and then lean over without a sound and lay the gun barrel across her back cheeks . |
| 16 | Positive thinking will have to wait a while , but it augurs well for one of the young ringsiders who turned up in his smartest suit and said : ‘ What a disgusting fight ; I wish I 'd worn my tracksuit . ’ |
| 17 | Sunderland will have to wait a little longer before knowing whether to turn left or right on to the M25 . |
| 18 | One of these was Lynn Bari , who has typically had to wait a few weeks after her death before receiving an obituary due her . |
| 19 | French ministers must give up their seats to substitutes , who then have to wait a month before they may vote . |
| 20 | The libel laws should be changed to provide a ‘ fast track ’ system allowing victims of media falsehoods to correct them quickly without having to wait a long time for their cases to go to court and gamble on the result . |
| 21 | He may have to wait a few years to enter a Tory Cabinet . |
| 22 | CHRIS Patten may have to wait a year or two before he returns to the Commons . |
| 23 | Although the plant will have the capability to make it , low-calorie frozen yogurt — that most decadent of Western desserts — may have to wait a while . |
| 24 | This can be contrasted with the centesimal scale where we may have to wait a fairly long time to ascertain the action of the remedy . |
| 25 | Where the remedy has been too ‘ strong ’ for the patient 's vitality this has always shown itself on the first few doses and it has merely been necessary to wait a day or two for the over-reaction to settle and then to begin again using greater dilution . |
| 26 | Certainly those who were in the square in 1387 hoping to see the completion of the Duomo would have had to wait a long time , far longer than the span of a human life . |
| 27 | There was no proper funeral , as there had been no proper wedding ceremony ; they simply hauled the waterlogged body onto a bonfire of driftwood , and even though the sea wind at dawn had made the fire hot enough to break the stones of the beach , it was six hours before the body was gone , and then they had to wait a whole day before they could rake the ashes for his bones and send them to her . |
| 28 | As they carried Robbie into the yard she glanced towards the staircase door and wondered if she should ask them to wait a moment until she went and got a coat and hat . |
| 29 | When you decide to practise , do not choose a difficult water , or difficult fish , where you are likely to have to wait a long time for a bite . |
| 30 | 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 . |