Example sentences of "to wait on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You must agree that you need talent and persona to wait on a table and wit , tact and conversation to serve at a bar . |
| 2 | Scott quotes the case of a man who was persecuted by visions during a period of sickness and depression ; one of these visions was ‘ the apparition of a gentleman-usher , dressed as if to wait on a Lord Lieutenant of Ireland … arrayed in court dress , with bag and sword , tamboured waistcoat and chapeaubras ’ who ‘ glided beside me like the ghost of Beau Nash … |
| 3 | He implied that a united Germany might have to wait on an end to the division of Europe . |
| 4 | To see the full series , we will have to wait on the BBC , who have bought Twin Peaks with the rights to show it anytime after November . |
| 5 | Unable to wait on the vagaries of the election timetable , land-hungry peasants are seizing farmland in both countries , while disgruntled Nicaraguan ex-combatants from both Contra and government armies periodically take up arms and head for the hills . |
| 6 | At another house , the officer was asked to wait on the doorstep ‘ while the dog was put into the back garden ’ . |
| 7 | From there we went in a funny little train with open trucks which fascinated Tim , until we got to a railway junction where we had to wait on the station for some hours for another train to take us to Calcutta . |
| 8 | On the all-important matter of holding a Council he was prepared to wait on the king 's convenience for a long time : he was never one to underestimate the needs of secular government . |
| 9 | The decorative potential of ivory and its pleasant feel were first explored by Upper Palaeolithic man , but more sophisticated uses of the material had to wait on the development of more complex societies marked by more or less pronounced hierarchies . |
| 10 | Substantial supplies had to wait on the mining of reefs first found as late as 1880 outcropping on the Tawmaw plateau . |
| 11 | He said Sabine rushed out of the study , saying she was not going to wait on the boat any longer . |
| 12 | However , serious action to close the loopholes in the law will have to wait on the parliamentary timetable and the European legislation , until then , with more and more companies wanting to know the truth about their employees , competitors and suppliers , and with more and more information being put onto computers , the trade in personal data looks set to thrive . |