Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] wait for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if you wait for the cholesterol advice pendulum to complete its swing , you can probably tuck into a cream doughnut instead . |
| 2 | Not unless they wait for the tide , or row in . ’ |
| 3 | Department managers , new checkouts , do all the bits and pieces on , and wanted me to do , while I wait for the shift to come in , and they start at seven . |
| 4 | I might eat a bread roll without the butter while I wait for the meal to arrive , and slimline or diet drinks act as a wonderful filler . |
| 5 | Foot flat to the floor , you can count to three while you wait for the response . |
| 6 | We can continue debating their demise , while we wait for the day when European taxpayers rather than farmers finally call the day on the common agricultural policy . |
| 7 | While we wait for the pendulum to swing : Gail Counsell warns that house prices could take years to recover after the latest rise in interest rates |
| 8 | We all have to keep up appearances while we wait for the tide to turn . |
| 9 | While we wait for the doctor 's diagnosis the patient may easily die . |
| 10 | ‘ I have to walk to the bus stop , and when I wait for the bus there 's some of them slag me off and they push you about . |
| 11 | Now , in these quiet moments as I wait for the world about to awake , I find myself going over in my mind again passages from Miss Kenton 's letter . |
| 12 | I take advantage of the silence as I wait for the punch-line to review the facts and fictions of the short story of Dudley Moore 's life . |
| 13 | All this I learn from the bus driver who chats to me as we wait for the traffic ahead to move . |