Example sentences of "[noun sg] to wait [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever I saw her , she always smiled at me , It was as if she 'd got me confused with someone else , someone important Once I had half an hour to wait for a transport . |
| 2 | The simplest method would have been for a French submarine to wait for the Rainbow Warrior somewhere on the high seas and sink it with a torpedo but that posed the problem of what to do with any survivors . |
| 3 | They 'd stopped in Port Patrick harbour to wait for the tide . |
| 4 | You must agree that you need talent and persona to wait on a table and wit , tact and conversation to serve at a bar . |
| 5 | With a giggle , Terry helped her carry her luggage back to her room , then dragged her back downstairs and along to the village to wait for the bus . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | These salads come into production faster than traditional lettuces as there is no need to wait for the plants to mature . |
| 8 | Also , the point of sharing would come much earlier as there is no need to wait for the completion of a ‘ book ’ before it goes to a central access point . |
| 9 | ( 5 ) Because of the exemption for anything done in pursuance of a scheme of arrangement under s153(3) ( e ) , it should in theory be possible for financial assistance proposed to be provided as part of the Court Scheme to be implemented immediately ( because the target is bound by the scheme when it becomes effective ) without the need to wait for the target to be re-registered as a private company and the private company exemption procedure followed . |
| 10 | I must ask my right hon. Friend to wait for an answer to his question about persistent offenders . |
| 11 | Not long afterwards she left the cabin , and Edward returned to his bunk to wait for the ship to sail , to take him back to Sweden . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm having a shower before breakfast , ’ Steve called out to her , and with a sigh of relief Ruth sank to a kitchen chair to wait for the kettle to boil . |
| 13 | He told the young man to wait in the hall . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | You can use GET and GET$ whenever you want your program to wait for a reply before continuing . |
| 16 | Seven days — a week — is a long time to wait for a telephone service nowadays . |
| 17 | Forty years may be a long time to wait for a 19p basic rate of tax . |
| 18 | With no time to wait for an ambulance , Colin , 27 , rang the midwife who issued instructions as he dashed up and down the stairs between the phone and the bathroom . |