Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] wait for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is an elegant way to travel , much better than waiting for the buses which , at this time of year , seem to come every other Tuesday . |
| 2 | But he could not sit patiently and wait for the next train , in an hour 's time . |
| 3 | It might be easier if we all presented a resume of ourselves rather than waited for the questions ! |
| 4 | Other recent flotations might just represent companies ' taking advantage of windows through which to de-gear , rather than waiting for the exits that offer the optimum long-term return . |
| 5 | Rather than wait for the release of the third cinema outing , Ocean have written an excellent multilevel extravaganza , incorporating and improving on existing styles from the other two RoboCop games . |
| 6 | Taylor wishes that in Sweden he had substituted the frustrated Gary Lineker with the pace of Tony Daley in the second match against France , rather than wait for the third and final game against Sweden to bring the curtain down on his captain 's international career . |
| 7 | The World Cup referees must have felt that the ball had ‘ been killed ’ on the ground and that it was therefore necessary to blow straight away for the penalty rather than wait for the advantage to occur . |
| 8 | Moreover , if the tables are to be turned , the USSR will do so at a time of her choosing , rather than wait for the hour of maximum danger to herself . |
| 9 | But rather than wait for the English to be lured on to these snares , he decided to launch the first attack himself . |
| 10 | To link things up we have to act on the information rather than wait for the information to act on us . |
| 11 | We also sought to provide a link for residents of Murieston to Livingston centre while the Murieston area is still developing , rather than wait for the completion of this housing area before taking action . |
| 12 | Rather than wait for the 28th CPSU congress due in July , as had been expected [ see pp. 37234-35 ] , a plenum of the CPSU central committee had given the party 's endorsement to the changes on March 11 . |
| 13 | At the summit , which was by all accounts an exceptionally heated affair , President Mubarak broke with Arab tradition and forced through a majority vote , rather than wait for the emergence of a unanimous compromise . |
| 14 | I wanted the sugar and rather than wait for the waiter to return or ask this boy to get it , I asked Harvey for the sugar . |
| 15 | Rather than wait for the groaning lift , I use the stairs . |
| 16 | Half past eight comes and it is time to stand outside and wait for the bus . |
| 17 | That I 'm still rehearsing Hamlet somewhere and waiting for the pain to end . ’ |
| 18 | Owen watched it carefully and waited for the arm to tire again . |
| 19 | It is unlikely that Patrick will come here and wait for the Plantagenet . |
| 20 | And the reverse of that , wrote Harsnet , the feeling that all we have already felt and seen and heard has yet to happen , is so far only a dream , a fantasy , and the sense , he wrote , that this may be a feeling we experience again and again throughout our lives , that the elements of experience have failed to catch on to the glass of our lives , or that the glass is there and waiting for the experience to be registered , that it can wait for ever , for it does not know the meaning of time . |
| 21 | Not guilty , did n't do it that 's why what gorilla man did sickened me ; no blood well hardly any blood literally a drop , a drip , a fucking pixel on the screen and the only thing slicing into flesh was a needle , tiny and delicate not a chainsaw or an axe or a knife or anything , but it 's that image that idea that old devil meme , I keep dreaming about it , keep having nightmares about it , and I 'm the trapped one , I 'm the man in the leather-and-chrome chair and he 's there with his gorilla face and his squeaky baby voice , explaining to the camera that what he has in this bottle and in this syringe is sperm ; the crazy fucker 's loaded it up with jism man looks like half a fucking milk bottle of the stuff and he 's going to inject it into the little guy 's veins and he ties something round the naked upper arm of the little guy strapped to the chair and pulls it tight and waits for the vein to show while the little guy howls and screams like a child and tries to shake the chair to bits or rip it apart but he 's too well strapped in there no purchase no leverage and then the man in the gorilla mask just does it ; sinks the needle into the little guy 's skin with a bit of blood and empties the whole syringe into him . |