Example sentences of "wait [num] minute " in BNC.
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| 1 | A train — which , as Peter said , the law-abiding might wait ten minutes for — arrived and bore the boy away in the nick of time . |
| 2 | Or will you wait ten minutes ? ’ |
| 3 | She could wait ten minutes though without dying , you know . |
| 4 | In this country they say that if you do n't like the weather all you have to do is wait five minutes and it will get better . |
| 5 | Would n't it be lovely , then , to be able to tell your PC that you want to run a CD ROM based game , and would it please re-configure itself to do the best job , preferably without making you wait five minutes while it re-boots ? |
| 6 | He asked me if I could wait five minutes . |
| 7 | Carlton police station , which is my police station , you can wait twenty minutes for the phone to be answered . |
| 8 | It can wait two minutes till you 've finished , now go and get moving |
| 9 | Light the candle , drink the first glass and wait five minutes . |
| 10 | wait five minutes ? |
| 11 | Just wait one minute . |
| 12 | you go in there and wait twenty minutes . |
| 13 | What 's more , he had also learned that he must ignore the first playing of the tune , and wait 15 minutes until it played again at the end of the programme — the dog would look up quizzically at the sound of the familiar music but stay still , apparently too smart to respond to an obvious false alarm . |
| 14 | By Claire 's watch they have been waiting eleven minutes . |
| 15 | Montgomerie was kept waiting 30 minutes for Lyle to finish and he said : ‘ That gave Sandy a big advantage . |
| 16 | He had paid three pence at the booking office for his ticket and , after waiting ten minutes or so on the cold and draughty platform for the next London-bound train , he had arrived at Christchurch some ten minutes later to run through torrential rain toward the group of cottages which flanked the open park in the town centre . |
| 17 | The boot was on the other foot however when the President 's wife Naina kept Norma Major waiting 25 minutes for a lunch date at the Savoy . |
| 18 | Judge John Lee , 65 , kept a defendant waiting 20 minutes at Hereford Crown Court as he justified remarks which caused outrage among feminists . |
| 19 | After waiting 20 minutes , not moving one inch and forced to endure ‘ Sweet Home Alabama ’ and ‘ Rocky Mountain Way ’ in quick succession , we abandon the minibus and continue on foot . |
| 20 | By the same token , if it is good you only have to wait five minutes and it will get worse . |
| 21 | He left her on the hard shoulder , near Epping , Essex , saying she would only have to wait 15 minutes . |
| 22 | Rescuers had to wait 40 minutes while power to 780 homes at Shotton Colliery , Durham , was turned off before the body could be moved . |
| 23 | Distraught Sarah Miles was forced to wait twenty minutes for a rival bus — just days after another girl the same age was brutally raped on her way to school in Essex . |
| 24 | At the hospital , I had to wait thirty minutes before getting attention . |
| 25 | Tell him to wait two minutes , that 's all . ’ |
| 26 | He had asked the driver to wait two minutes whilst he saw whether or not I was through customs and in the foyer . |
| 27 | MAYOR Middi Haines waited 45 minutes in the rain to wave off two charity cyclists — then discovered they had pedalled away four months earlier . |
| 28 | He admitted he had waited ten minutes to enter an exhibition to take advantage of the cheaper rates after 5.30 p.m . |
| 29 | Coun. Phil Hughes , manager of Teesdale Citizen 's Advice Bureau in Galgate , Barnard Castle , waited 36 minutes after his emergency call when a man collapsed with chest pains outside the office . |
| 30 | They waited ten minutes , Paul timing it exactly on his wristwatch , then crept back to find Gittings comfortably installed on a newly delivered double bed , beginning his lunch of two fresh fish cutters and half a bottle of five-star rum . |