Example sentences of "wait for some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though debt-for-equity swaps represent one way for banks to recover part of their developing country debt exposure , they still stand to lose money and look likely to have to wait for some years before they can cash in their equity stakes . |
| 2 | They were repeatedly told he was too busy , and when finally , at the eleventh hour , they were granted a meeting , some sort of communication problem caused Mrs Sue Amphlett and her associate to be sent from one building to another and then to wait for some time in the wrong one , until they had to leave to finish the report in time for the news conference they had called . |
| 3 | We had to wait for some months in order to get a passage and finally set oft on my birthday in January . |
| 4 | We had to wait for some days until a convoy of ships was ready . |
| 5 | She had to wait for some time before the door was opened , and she hoped very much that it would be opened by Clelia , but it was not ; it was opened by a thin , brown , balding , youngish looking man . |
| 6 | Electrical stimulation could produce dramatic effects , but the proper study of electro-physiology had to wait for some time until it was possible to record small electrical potentials . |
| 7 | If they are still experiencing the benefits of the last centesimal medicine then as usual you would wait for some indication before repeating or changing remedies at which point the LM can be prescribed . |
| 8 | We 'll probably wait for some boring moment on the tour and go over it , collect it and put it in a book for posterity ! ’ |
| 9 | But important matters had to wait on his attention ; and , if he chose to withhold it , might wait for some time . |
| 10 | ‘ I should perhaps wait for some more romantic hour . ’ |
| 11 | Let us wait for some more opportune moment to give her the news that Kokos is back in town . |
| 12 | Well I think I 'll wait for some cheese |
| 13 | Cameron sensed Menzies waiting for some words — any words . |
| 14 | He did not speak in the room , allowing his clothes to fall on to the floor in the darkness , waiting for some stir or sign from Rose , but the only sound in the room was the brushing of his own clothes falling in the darkness . |
| 15 | I 'd been waiting for some opportunity to show off , to draw attention to myself . |
| 16 | If you are simply waiting for some other piece of paper to arrive put the original item on a bring forward file with instruction to your clerk or secretary . |
| 17 | But to Perdita they appeared curiously passive , sitting and waiting for some man to make them unhappy . |
| 18 | She must have been waiting for some time . |
| 19 | He jibed that ‘ maybe it is waiting for some cross-shareholding agreements ’ with Bundespost Telekom . |
| 20 | Sometimes I watched a den for hours , waiting for some action , only to see the mink return with a freshly caught eel , having made an invisible exit earlier . |
| 21 | The dancers paused , evidently waiting for some acknowledgement or reciprocal gesture , but there was none . |
| 22 | An uncomfortable pause while he sat forward on the sofa holding his coffee cup in both hands and gazing into it as if he was waiting for some kind of chemical reaction . |
| 23 | Esther Breuer made a note to order Oxenholme 's monograph on Signorelli , and read on , waiting for some little current to leap from one open page to the other , from one lobe of the brain to the other , and to ignite a new twig of meaning , to fill a small new cell of the storehouse of her erudition . |
| 24 | He looked as if he had been waiting for some time . |
| 25 | She said that she was waiting for some of her belongings to be sent on , but she 'd supply all her tax and National Insurance details as soon as they came . |
| 26 | He lay frozen , waiting for some reaction , but there was nothing . |
| 27 | In puzzlement she stood there , waiting for some sequel , but nothing happened . |
| 28 | She did not seem at a loss , only waiting for some boring and pointless noise to end . |
| 29 | Her nose was pressed permanently against the window of the boat in an effort to see every beautiful palace with its sleek black gondolas bobbing against the striped poles at the end of jetties , waiting for some prince or wealthy politician to step into . |
| 30 | Maria was paralysed , waiting for some sort of explosion , or for Luke to deny that he was involved with someone like her — the truth , now . |