Example sentences of "[subord] wait for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather than wait for a third guy , Lee sets his ball down quick and hits it . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But rather than wait for the English to be lured on to these snares , he decided to launch the first attack himself . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Rather than wait for the groaning lift , I use the stairs . |
| 6 | Pregnant women whose babies are overdue may be better off being induced rather than waiting for a spontaneous birth . |
| 7 | You do not warm to this lady , who delivers her lines to camera as if waiting for the canned laughter . |
| 8 | Should treatment be withheld and the available donor organs donated to ‘ more suitable ’ patients or should such ill patients be actively treated while waiting for a suitable donor organ , thus leading to a potential increase in the number of stable patients likely to deteriorate while awaiting ‘ elective ’ transplantation ? |
| 9 | Up to the age of 39 he was one of that sad , nervous and obscure clan of people who scraped a living as a barrister while waiting for a distant relative to die and leave him an independent income . |
| 10 | The young composer practises his scales while waiting for a big break . |
| 11 | According to Le Monde of Nov. 22 the number of asylum seekers ( who came especially from eastern Europe ) had risen to 1,700 per month , and a new law to speed the processing of asylum applications stipulated that these should be processed within two months , after which an applicant recognized as a refugee could take up provisional residence while waiting for a definitive decision . |
| 12 | Another bomb fell and he was back in the gutter beside Peregrine , convinced that anything was preferable to being killed while waiting for an improbable train . |
| 13 | While waiting for the great day we watched nearly every match of the 1990 World Cup , particularly the progress of England and Ireland in the early rounds . |