Example sentences of "[vb past] to wait [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a corner he stopped to wait for a break in the traffic . |
| 2 | She seemed to wait for an initiative from her friend . |
| 3 | I decided to wait for a review — you know what Microsoft 's other support lines are like . |
| 4 | As they crossed to the supermarket they had to wait as an assistant wearing a jacket over his uniform wheeled a long line of trolleys from a loading bay into the store . |
| 5 | Eventually , well into the afternoon , we found the route — but had to wait for a couple who pushed in front claiming they were ‘ HVS climbers ’ and would not take long . |
| 6 | He reached it without mishap but had to wait for a while , watching the day begin , until the ferrymaster arrived . |
| 7 | But they had to wait for a host of their rivals to commit pop suicide before they could begin the job of moulding this new discovery . |
| 8 | Well that was the , the erm union for us , erm I think erm one of the great assets of being in public transport was that we were in a local erm pension scheme , erm when , when we in the office started , we had to wait until we were eighteen and then we had to wait for a vacancy because there was a limited number of people that the Council were prepared to back by paying a similar amount . |
| 9 | Clare was fired for turning up late after she had to wait for a doctor because Josh had a temperature . |
| 10 | We had to wait for an hour for our connection to Frankfurt . |
| 11 | Heather Courtley , whose son was the patient who had to wait for an hour , said she was not reassured . |
| 12 | To prepare this article I had to wait for an event on a day when the visibility was gin-clear to get good photographs from my open cockpit Jodel D9 , using a telephoto lens at various focal lengths to obtain the required framing . |
| 13 | Turning to those who were referred by the GP to another agency , a major problem experienced by this group was the length of time they had to wait for an appointment ( see also Watson 1985 ) . |
| 14 | I had to wait in a corridor . |
| 15 | First she wanted to learn and see , she wanted to wait for a man who did things and was something on his own . |