Example sentences of "[noun] wait [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ The conditions were difficult for everyone and we took a good decision to wait until the last half-hour before doing our 12 laps . |
| 2 | Others realized that it was only a matter of patience to wait for the guaranteed escape which would be provided by the end of the war , and as the war dragged on more and more people became converted to this view . |
| 3 | Tomorrow was too far distanced for his mind to wait for the last piece of evidence — a mind so ceaselessly tossing , as it had been ever since Lewis — wonderful Lewis ! — had mentioned that seemingly irrelevant item in The Oxford Times . |
| 4 | There had been a cancellation so two seats would be available on a Tarom flight five days hence with a Romanian Automobile Club hire car waiting at the other end . |
| 5 | Cambridge were left high and dry for a time this afternoon as Oxford followed in the footsteps of many a champion boxer and left the opposition waiting at the official weigh-in . |
| 6 | The result was that four travellers were now sitting in the airport terminal waiting for the next flight , which was probably full anyway . |
| 7 | On a wild and windy day , with gusts of rain driving into the side of the crematorium , an Anglican priest waited for the next funeral to commence . |
| 8 | Timekeepers waited in the heavy rain for the teams to pass , a doctor sat in his tent for potential patients and a journalist from the French daily sports paper L'Equipe sat with a telephone plastered to his ear filing a story to Paris . |
| 9 | Copies of the charter were being given out during the rush hour at Darlington but connections proved not to be the best with an hour wait for the next train south . |
| 10 | I watched the doors close and then ran upstairs to the empty ticket hall to wait for the next train . |
| 11 | There are many big sharks waiting for the wee Minister to announce the terms of these sales . |
| 12 | Nobody sits at home waiting for the next assignment . |
| 13 | I await the first sighting of this crucial volume with the awed anticipation of a Crusader waiting for the Holy Grail to arrive through the post . |
| 14 | Reynolds waited in the small office that Diane appeared to share with four others ; after the windowless basement it seemed almost palatial . |
| 15 | Pumping a fresh shell into the breech , Grant waited till the long burst of enemy fire ceased when their magazines emptied . |
| 16 | They ran back to the house and Endill waited at the front door while his mother went to see who or what it was . |
| 17 | But Greenford was in Middlesex and many was the night I spent in the pissing rain having walked to Acton Town station to wait for the first train home in the morning . |
| 18 | Tom and Peter and Peter 's new friend Jay were standing on the platform waiting for the southbound Jubilee train . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's a bomb , ’ I thought , as I braced myself against the walls of the trench waiting for the inevitable explosion . |
| 20 | when when you 're in in the fucking station waiting for the old train you 're on the front of the fucking platform . |
| 21 | A few supermarkets and food shops were open , most with long queues of customers waiting in the intense heat , hoping to stock up on food and other necessities in case the paralysis of the city 's life continues . |
| 22 | Chota waits for the next ration of pears from Chris Jones |
| 23 | After Theo had gone , Vincent waited for the right moment to break his own news to Sien . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Her mother described her as a dog waiting for the next command , and all she wanted to do was hold out her arms and say ‘ Come here ’ , but she was completely powerless to do anything at all . |
| 26 | This was unfortunate for passengers waiting for the 31 bus , as an article in the current issue of the research journal London passenger transport shows . |
| 27 | A notable feature of the campaign has been a large number of ‘ do n't knows ’ , with many people waiting until the last minute before deciding how to vote . |
| 28 | Er and they 've now got it stashed away in in Australia waiting for the next exhibition . |
| 29 | The important point is that if one ultradian peak is missed then the baby waits until the next peak . |
| 30 | Thus there are often traffic jams for several minutes on Wainfleet 's main through road , while motorists wait at the level crossing . |