Example sentences of "[vb past] to wait for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a corner he stopped to wait for a break in the traffic . |
| 2 | I decided to wait for a review — you know what Microsoft 's other support lines are like . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He reached it without mishap but had to wait for a while , watching the day begin , until the ferrymaster arrived . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Clare was fired for turning up late after she had to wait for a doctor because Josh had a temperature . |
| 8 | First she wanted to learn and see , she wanted to wait for a man who did things and was something on his own . |