Example sentences of "wait for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you wait for inspiration it may be more difficult for the Careers Service to give constructive advice . |
| 2 | wait for whisky and lemon |
| 3 | It means Aylesbury Vale Health Authority will now be able to comply will the new patients charter , which says a 2 year wait for treatment should be the maximum . |
| 4 | Security police wait for boot as people 's power arrives . |
| 5 | and wait for absorption . |
| 6 | The trouble is my theory 's looking shakier all the time because McDunn 's convinced me it really was all just a smoke-screen : there is no Ares project , never was any Ares project , and Smout in his prison in Baghdad is n't connected to the guys that died ; it was just somebody coming up with a clever conspiracy theory , just a way of getting me to go to remote places and wait for phone calls and deprive me of an alibi while gorilla man did something horrible to somebody else somewhere else . |
| 7 | You could consider the wide variety of third-party alternatives or kill two birds with one stone and wait for MS-DOS 6 . |
| 8 | Soon , Rob would take S-Sugar on to the runway and wait for clearance from the control tower . |
| 9 | They have heavy bodies , and sit and wait for prey to come to them , striking with unerring accuracy and speed at any small mammal as it passes . |
| 10 | Its marbled , fine-grained beef is of very good quality and taste and it is well worth the rather long wait for maturity in spite of the lack of size . |
| 11 | WAIT FOR IT , I 'M A MUM |
| 12 | Instead , the computer enters an idle or " wait for interrupt " state ; the full halt is then provided only by manual intervention . |
| 13 | Bottomley mum 3-hour wait for op |
| 14 | But this issue has not been the subject of legislation , nor previously been considered by this court or the House of Lords , and in such circumstances the alternatives are either to dismiss the appeal despite the relevance of article 10 and wait for Parliament to reconsider the state of the law ; or , as the courts have from time to time demonstrated their ability and willingness to do , venture into relatively unchartered waters and declare the present state of the law . |
| 15 | If you can not be sure of handling the glider safely , turn it out of the wind , hold the wing down and wait for help . |
| 16 | I turn on my side , make a parallel zigzag , and wait for sleep . |
| 17 | They work by detecting the by-products of the vaginitis bacteria that cause its characteristic fishy smell , and can be carried out in the surgery in two minutes , thus avoiding the usual five to 10-day wait for lab test results — and prolonged discomfort . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Visitors for the school or Matthew could press either of the little buttons marked Inquiries above their names and step right in and wait for attention . |
| 20 | Mm , wait for grandma |
| 21 | Beattie 's sister Rose and husband ( Clive Swift ) wait for director Richard Phillips to tell them what they 're doing 6,000 miles away from home . |
| 22 | The Corporal said , ‘ We will have to lie low and wait for dark . |
| 23 | Wait for Adai . |
| 24 | All we had to do was to patrol up and down the nets , take out the rabbits and wait for daylight . |
| 25 | Stand up and wait for silence . |
| 26 | In a colony under the moon , people wait for news . |
| 27 | It is not part of our code to stand helpless and alone and wait for death . |
| 28 | Whatever terrors awaited them in the city , it would be better to take a chance than simply wait for death at the hands of the Chelonians . |
| 29 | ‘ There 's nothing we can do but hang on here and wait for morning , ’ Lawler said to his wife , helping her onto her feet . |
| 30 | We wait for time to test Constance Cumbey 's prophecy that the New Age is the herald of the Antichrist . |