Example sentences of "to wait [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 31 | Clare was fired for turning up late after she had to wait for a doctor because Josh had a temperature . |
| 32 | At Darlington , so that they would not have to wait for a connection , they had hired a special train to Richmond , where they were met . |
| 33 | After I was at court I had to go back to Low Newton to wait for a few weeks before I could go to Styal prison . |
| 34 | It would have to wait for a more opportune time , she decided , and replaced the receiver . |
| 35 | She went out , leaving Peter Suvarov to wait for a more rational assessment of Julia 's state from Annunziata . |
| 36 | I decided to wait for a review — you know what Microsoft 's other support lines are like . |
| 37 | Ebert , Fest and I. We were after the assassins of the T'ang 's Minister , Lwo Kang , and had been told to wait for a contact from our Triad connections there . |
| 38 | Speaking before the ASEAN standing committee in September 1984 , the Malaysian Foreign Minister declared that it would be a mistake to wait for a solution to the Kampuchean problem before making attempts to implement the idea of the zone of peace , freedom and neutrality . |
| 39 | It may be necessary to wait for a place or take a place somewhere else ( either permanently or temporarily ) . |
| 40 | Well , I phoned them up , and I 'd been badgering them , and they told me to wait for a further communication . |
| 41 | But the point of our ‘ numbers of planets ’ argument is that , even if the chemist said that we 'd have to wait for a ‘ miracle ’ , have to wait a billion billion years — far longer than the universe has existed , we can still accept this verdict with equanimity . |
| 42 | Maxim had an hour and a half to wait for a train to Osnabrück , and half changed his mind about hiring a car , but that meant lots of signatures , and might be difficult to hand back if he flew home on a trooping flight from RAF Gütersloh . |
| 43 | In fact he had fully intended to wait for a suitable moonlit warm right , but the trying events of the day had put him so out of sorts that he could stand the waiting no longer . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | Perhaps I am prepared to wait for a miracle . |
| 46 | Will he beef up the public consultation procedures which his Department are currently casting aside like autumn leaves shrivelling on the ground , or do we have to wait for a Labour Government in the full flush of a green spring and summer to bring sense back into our planning system ? |
| 47 | Seven days — a week — is a long time to wait for a telephone service nowadays . |
| 48 | Will we have to wait for a Labour Government before positive action is taken ? |
| 49 | However , he went on to say that the acceptance of the existence of Communist China did not mean that Taiwan had abandoned its " one-China policy " and that the country was prepared to wait for a positive response to its proposals for unification on the basis of liberal democratic policies . |
| 50 | An announcement in May confirming the selection of Glasgow removed earlier uncertainty , although final confirmation has to wait for a further consultation period until the end of June . |
| 51 | We stopped for half an hour in Reading to wait for a connection . ’ |
| 52 | So it might pay a mother to wait for a few days and see what happened to the baby . |
| 53 | Does the Minister agree with the view therefore , that nurses that nurses should be given the authority to admit patients to hospital provided there is a bed without having to wait for a decision to be to be made by a doctor ? |
| 54 | You can use GET and GET$ whenever you want your program to wait for a reply before continuing . |
| 55 | You can use this function to wait for a specified time for a key to be pressed . |
| 56 | The Irish are patient enough to wait for a lucky break . |
| 57 | The Lancashire skipper then had to wait for a tense two minute trial by television to decide whether he could continue his burgeoning innings . |
| 58 | Mrs Freda Bastianelli , the mother of four-month-old twin boys , who has a house on the shoreline , complained that another year was a long time to wait for a possible cure . |
| 59 | The Chinese do n't like their planes to fly unless the weather is absolutely O.K. So we had to wait for a few hours for the plane to arrive from Shanghai . |
| 60 | I said I 've been waiting six months now , I 've given my life six months to wait for a job , I said , you ca n't get experience if you 're not given chances |