Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] to wait [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I decided to wait for a review — you know what Microsoft 's other support lines are like .
2 I had to wait in a corridor .
3 Clare was fired for turning up late after she had to wait for a doctor because Josh had a temperature .
4 First she wanted to learn and see , she wanted to wait for a man who did things and was something on his own .
5 Well that was the , the erm union for us , erm I think erm one of the great assets of being in public transport was that we were in a local erm pension scheme , erm when , when we in the office started , we had to wait until we were eighteen and then we had to wait for a vacancy because there was a limited number of people that the Council were prepared to back by paying a similar amount .
6 But they had to wait for a host of their rivals to commit pop suicide before they could begin the job of moulding this new discovery .
7 At a corner he stopped to wait for a break in the traffic .
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