Example sentences of "to wait [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Labour candidate Alan Milburn said figures from the Northern Regional Health Authority 's guide to waiting times for GPs throughout the North show an increase in almost every department within Darlington health authority . |
| 2 | Two of the three moved off as he arrived , with unconvincing references to waiting papers , but Bruce Davidson stood his ground , enquiring heartily how Francesca was and had she been helpful ? |
| 3 | Timber staithes remain at this port on the River Tyne , some of the last such structures built in the nineteenth century as wharves for unloading coal from the railway on to waiting ships . |
| 4 | The dealers snatch the baskets of produce they have bought and rush them to waiting lorries . |
| 5 | A wooden chute still survives , which fed grain or flour from the mill to waiting waggons in the bakehouse . |
| 6 | The only message some of them had had time to give their children as the social workers took them to waiting cars was ‘ have faith , be strong , we 'll do what we can ’ . |
| 7 | It was around two in the morning and most of the performers had now dispersed to waiting cars and taxis . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , his favourite pastime was kidnapping innocent virgins , holding them prisoner in his cave while he presumably had his wicked way with them , and then lowering them sixty metres down to waiting boats to be sold into slavery … ’ |
| 9 | He threw open a bedroom window at his farmhouse in Dummer , Hants , and yelled to waiting newsmen : ‘ You are wasting your time . |
| 10 | Peter Bottomley , the former Transport Minister , quipped to waiting reporters : ‘ I do n't exist . |
| 11 | They are then corralled by floating , wooden booms and transported via conveyor belts to waiting trucks . |