Example sentences of "people wait for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harold Carter , some of you will know of him and have heard of him who was er , a preacher within one of the early preachers within the pentecostal movement in this country , and one of their teachers , said that to teach people to wait for the Holy Spirit is nothing in the world but a combination of works , and unbelief . |
| 2 | In a colony under the moon , people wait for news . |
| 3 | ‘ How long do people wait for a new outpatient appointment ? ’ |
| 4 | Rachma'an or ‘ Mercy Camp ’ as it is in English has been established by church organisations and Save the Children to provide more comfortable conditions whilst these people wait for repatriation . |
| 5 | To her surprise the small room of the post office was full of people waiting for the evening mail . |
| 6 | There were about thirty people waiting for them as they left their home . |
| 7 | He was a little surprised when she said no and even more so when she told him that he was wasting the doctor 's time — there were sick people waiting for these beds . |
| 8 | More generally we read reports of people waiting for their relative who is ‘ presumed dead ’ in some conflict or accident . |
| 9 | Department records show a million people waiting for hospital treatment in England and Wales . |
| 10 | The total number of people waiting for NHS treatment in the UK rose to more than one million in March 1990. 25% of inpatients wait for longer than a year for treatment . |
| 11 | I looked out of the window and I saw a queue of people waiting for the bus … and so on . |
| 12 | But he had no sense that they were being watched , that somewhere between these walls and the windows glinting in the transitory sun there were people waiting for him in anxiety , grief , perhaps in fear . |
| 13 | There were seven people waiting for him , the Richardsons , the Hoopers , two parishioners from Snead , and Miss Dunstable from Loxford . |
| 14 | Always be prepared to listen patiently to a guest 's chatter no matter how boring , but develop a technique of being able to detach , oneself politely from a conversation without giving offence , especially if there is work to be done or other people waiting for attention . |
| 15 | People waiting for trains watched in horror as the violence spread towards the Festi-val Hall . |
| 16 | There were 752,422 people waiting for in-patient treatment in March 1979 and 692,946 in March 1991 — a drop of 8 per cent . |
| 17 | Is the Minister aware that there are now thousands of people waiting for home improvement grants , some of whom applied before 1984 ? |
| 18 | Exit-poll findings and election returns showed that Tyminski had been most successful in the countryside and small towns , where the benefits of the economic reforms had so far been negligible , and among young people waiting for housing and workers concerned about their jobs . |
| 19 | Because we do n't have the sufficient numbers and ca n't keep people waiting for courses we tend to have these do it on a one to one basis which you get , I do n't know . |
| 20 | In Darlington 's ophthalmology department alone Mr Milburn says there are 897 local people waiting for treatment . |
| 21 | The total number of people waiting for treatment is also down , by more than 1,500 to 70,714 . |
| 22 | While the prophetic people waited for a great military leader , and the Dark Power scoured the skies for signs of a cosmic invasion , God slipped into the world almost unheralded . |
| 23 | The computer craze started by the Nintendo character reached fever pitch as more than 15,000 people waited for up to three hours to get into London 's Earls Court . |
| 24 | It is touching but rather embarrassing that after the film the rest of the people waited for the foreign quests to leave first , and clapped us when we went out . |