Example sentences of "a [adj] wait " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is in fact all the better for a prolonged wait in the cold . |
| 2 | But Alfred was a pharmacist ; would he have chosen such a terrible death when a narcotic drug would have ensured a tranquil wait for the ferryman and a smooth crossing ? |
| 3 | A CRUEL WAIT |
| 4 | In Middlesbrough , the grandparents of a four-year-old boy told how they paid out £300 for a private operation because of a six-month wait . |
| 5 | A military ambulance had been removed from the base to answer 999 calls elsewhere , and there was a 15-minute wait for a civilian ambulance to take the man to hospital . |
| 6 | Since the casework load at Latchmere is constantly rising and there is a two-week wait for an appointment with the welfare worker , the load can be contained only if common elements of the detainees ' problems can be drawn together . |
| 7 | He now travelled in disguise from St Malo on 18 December 1715 , to Dunkirk , from where , after a six-week wait , he was at last able to set off on a small eight-gun 200-tonner , for Scotland . |
| 8 | The tests are due to be carried out over the next fortnight but parents will face a six-week wait for the results . |
| 9 | When entering shops it is essential to make a mental note of who is in front of you , and it is the custom when entering a shop to ask if they have the items you want in stock to avoid a pointless wait . |
| 10 | There was then a nervous wait for Ray Younger who finished in 35th place as fourth scorer to give them victory by two points over North Belfast with Albertville a further two points adrift . |
| 11 | Atherton and DeFreitas failed to make the most of their first Test selection and face a nervous wait until Gooch 's side for Lord 's is named on Sunday . |
| 12 | Phil DeFreitas , Lancashire 's other representative in the first Test , also faces a nervous wait , after leapfrogging Essex leftarmer Mark Ilott to play at Old Trafford when Alan Igglesden pulled out injured . |
| 13 | MIDDLESBROUGH Mohawks face a nervous wait for the safe arrival of Norman Findlay from the United States to boost their chances of lifting the Second Division championship at Wembley on Sunday . |
| 14 | After a brief wait and an exchange of pleasantries with Renee , Yanto carried the two brimming mugs back out into the sun and joined Selwyn on the bench . |
| 15 | For him it meant a brief wait until he was of the appropriate age of 21 , in December 1807 ; barely a month later he was off to Doctors ' Commons in St Paul 's Churchyard to sign an allegation ‘ … that he is of the Parish of All Hallows , Barking , London , a bachelor … ’ and ‘ … that there is no lawful impediment … ’ before being issued with a licence by the Archbishop of Canterbury 's Faculty Office . |
| 16 | ‘ I have never known a patient wait for 10 hours for an ambulance for an inter-hospital transfer — and I hope never to know it again , ’ she said . |
| 17 | Ironside looks set to lose his understudy tag after a patient wait in the background since he joined Boro last summer . |
| 18 | And then when the old spinney used to come up again , if you were lucky , he 'd probably He had a probably a little wait before you 'd finished the other , you see ? |
| 19 | Ironically , later auf became a local expression for a long wait , or working for nothing . |
| 20 | There was a long wait . |
| 21 | Arran buses have printed timetables but , as in all islands , clocks are set to boat times and we had a long wait , an identikit American family and myself . |
| 22 | He said : ‘ If he does n't select and stalk his victim , and obviously he did n't in the last three cases , he 'd normally have to expect a long wait . |
| 23 | He said : ‘ It 's been a long wait but anything worth having takes time . |
| 24 | It seemed a long wait . |
| 25 | ‘ With most criminal kidnaps you could expect a long wait . |
| 26 | I had a long wait . |
| 27 | After such a long wait , Ellie was so stiff and so fearful , that she was almost relieved to hear them , laughing and jeering at each other , and then greeting their father , whom they were surprised to see home . |
| 28 | If she was waiting for him to say that she did n't need to diet she had a long wait . |
| 29 | We anxiously resigned ourselves to a long wait , and as the weeks passed we gradually got to know the handful of long-term foreign residents in the town , all of them eccentric survivors from days of former glory . |
| 30 | Everyone quietly settled down for a long wait . |