Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] wait [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had to wait a long time for an answer , and just before the door opened I nearly came sufficiently to my senses to run away , but sanity came too late . |
| 2 | I had to wait a long time shut in . |
| 3 | And I was a bit late , so I had to wait a long time to get served . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I 've waited a long while for this . ’ |
| 6 | An overwhelmed Fogarty said : ‘ I 've waited a long time for this . |
| 7 | So erm I 'm you kn I do n't propose to do that again because I would n't er I would n't arrange a speaker if we had a full table show but it 's nice to know that it did work out because we were , I was forced into a corner a little bit erm and I think it was worth it because we as I say I 've waited a long time for Danny and he was well worth listening to , I can listen to Danny for hours because he he just speaks and , and tells you about his fish , I 'm , I 'm very very fond of listening to Danny cos I think he gives a good talk . |
| 8 | I 've waited a long time to be able to do this . ’ |
| 9 | I 've waited a long time for this . ’ |
| 10 | I do n't too much like warm toast , I have to wait a little bit . |
| 11 | I have waited a long time before writing to you , hoping all the time that I might hear good news of Leslie from Wendy . |
| 12 | He said : ‘ I have waited a long time for this chance and it 's up to me to make the most of it . |
| 13 | I have waited a long time to catch The Economist out on an egregious factual error . |
| 14 | Do you want to come back on that Mr or do you want to wait a few moments ? |
| 15 | This is no comfort for a patient who has to wait a few months ( in the past , waiting times in some centres were over two years ) but is perhaps a more rational means of distributing limited health care resources than the random waiting lists used in the past , when patients were given fairly arbitrary degrees of priority . |
| 16 | ‘ She has waited a long time for rest . |
| 17 | She 'd waited the few moments it took for his lean , athletic figure to be swallowed up in the crowd , feasting her eyes on his receding back , fighting back the threatening tears . |
| 18 | She seemed to wait a long time before she heard footsteps within , and then a light sprang up beyond the frosted glass . |
| 19 | But there are particular areas like this , you having to wait a long time and if you come into the building to go and see a film and you 've you 've left an hour to , to have some food you , you really should n't be missing the film because |
| 20 | She had waited a long time for this moment . |
| 21 | After all , she had waited a long time to belong , but she had never realised she could belong so completely . |
| 22 | Gardener John Tobin , of Speke , who had to wait an extra day for his £160-weekly wage , said : ‘ It 's a disgrace . ’ |
| 23 | 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 ’ . |
| 24 | But arrivals follow departures and the new appears very promising — even if you have to wait a little time for it . |
| 25 | Oh I see , yes , you have to wait a few minutes . |
| 26 | you have to wait a few days for it to clear do n't ya ? |
| 27 | ‘ You have waited a long time to tell me . |
| 28 | You have , yeah , you have to wait at least you have wait a certain amount of years . |
| 29 | She explained that with some people one had to wait a long time before one saw what one wanted to see . |
| 30 | We had to wait a long time because I had my mother to look after and she was rather difficult . ’ |