Example sentences of "to wait [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew that the Pitts were going to stay with the police , go down to the river to wait if the Chief Superintendent let them , but she did not want to . |
| 2 | With a specialty like his , he could afford to wait until a really worthwhile chance came up . |
| 3 | ‘ Unfortunately she had to wait until a bed was available on the ward , but she was given a bed in casualty . |
| 4 | He is not in a hurry , he is man to wait until a thing is right , time , price , everything but he will always do what he wants , and get his aeroplanes eventually . |
| 5 | Bladder control at night sometimes happens a long time after control in the day , and as with daytime training , it 's best to wait until a child shows signs of being able to develop control . |
| 6 | To begin with , the vets had to wait until a horse had broken down , and then sift through their collection of its graphs to see if and when they could first detect a change . |
| 7 | Prior to the conference , the US official line has been to wait until a link between carbon dioxide and global warming became proven . |
| 8 | Pupils , parents and teachers will now have to wait until a full meeting of Gloucestershire County Council next month to see whether the cuts will go ahead . |
| 9 | Traffic dilemma : Darlington Borough Council has indicated that the parish council will have to wait until a bypass is opened before the problems of congestion in the village can be properly addressed . |
| 10 | Berger then decided to wait until the scheduled pit stops in the hope that the Ferrari crew could steal an advantage over the McLaren mechanics . |
| 11 | Michael Meacher , the shadow Secretary of State for Employment , said that such definitions would have to wait until the party formed a government and the details were worked out between ministers and officials . |
| 12 | Comfortably installed at Manly , with five months to wait until the new Australian season , the coach 's reputation is enhanced with every sight of his former charges . |
| 13 | BRM 's F1 return had to wait until the new two-litre P25 was ready for its first full season in 1956 . |
| 14 | They would have to wait until the property is sold before the super profits come in . ’ |
| 15 | Hounslow had to wait until the second-half before England 's Martyn Grimley scored their first goal in a 3-0 win over Lyons , the Poundstretcher Second Division side . |
| 16 | Faldo had to wait until the ‘ 89 Masters before he could catch up with Lyle and maybe the picture of him on the 11th green , the second hole of a sudden-death play-off with Scott Hoch , encapsulates Europe 's men in the majors in the Eighties . |
| 17 | A lot of my work has been concerned with this area and as my experience has grown I have learnt to wait until the people involved tell me they want to talk . |
| 18 | BP has excellent potential but given uncertainty over first-half earnings any recovery will have to wait until the second half . |
| 19 | Mr Heseltine should remember that , though he won the crown in the end , Canning had to wait until the Prime Minister had finally retired . |
| 20 | Instead I would advise that person to wait until the economy picks up , and maybe then there will be an increase in demand . |
| 21 | But most teachers with amorous intent are wise enough to wait until the girls are in the sixth form . |
| 22 | Both resolve to wait until the GP has performed the pregnancy test before telling anyone , even though the GP 's pregnancy test uses much the same sort of chemistry as the commercial one and is hardly more reliable or definitive . |
| 23 | The only parts of the Home Support Project which were not clearly understood at first were ( a ) its method of obtaining clients ( it was sometimes thought that any dementia sufferer in the borough could be referred directly to the development officer ) , and ( b ) the fact that the development officers could not step in immediately the psychogeriatrician referred a client to the project , but had to wait until the research assessment had been carried out ( which would confirm the client 's eligibility for the project service ) . |
| 24 | Of course , you have to wait until the nut has warmed up to savour it , but experiments are currently in progress to determine whether a frozen and thawed Brazil remains easy to deal with . |
| 25 | Michael Croucher thought it would be better to wait until the question of the enhancement of The Square was rediscussed and to incorporate any decision or changes into that scheme . |
| 26 | Rather , supporters tend to wait until the seemingly inevitable lapse of concentration in defence before expecting the side to get down to serious business . |
| 27 | Birds feeding on the road seem to wait until the very last minute before zooming off to safety , though inexperienced fledglings normally suffer a high casualty rate on our early summer roads . |
| 28 | ‘ I do n't want to wait until the Malton Hiring at Martinmas . |
| 29 | Would it not have been better for them to wait until the children came home for Christmas ? |
| 30 | While welcoming the first signs of an upturn in UK demand , boss Bruce Cohen warns that any full-blooded recovery will have to wait until the housing market gets moving . |