Example sentences of "be wait [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And now we are to wait for the next ethnic war to intervene to salve our pitifully insensitive consciences and our failure to shape and conduct an effective policy : a neat one , no complications , allowing intervention with few , possibly no , losses . |
| 2 | A BSkyB spokesman said : ‘ We 're waiting for the various football bodies to sort the matter out . ’ |
| 3 | We 're waiting for the lost and founds . |
| 4 | And all the way through the film these things were happening and you 're waiting for the thrilling resolution . |
| 5 | They 're waiting for the little green men , he thought . |
| 6 | there 's hundreds of French , Germans they 're waiting until the first of July and they 'll be in this country in a flash . |
| 7 | Gentlemen ushers in knee-length black tunics fuss about , directing last-minute guests to their seats , although most have been waiting for the best part of an hour , making stilted smalltalk to conceal their pride . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , the good news will bring some welcome relief to those homeowners who have been waiting for the best part of 1991 to sell their home . |
| 9 | The banks have been hostile to the plans from the beginning but had been waiting for the right moment to withdraw on commercial rather than political grounds . |
| 10 | Although the City has recommended for the past year that Quality go public , the company has been waiting for the right moment . |
| 11 | I believe she used to be so reluctant about marrying people because marriage is important to her , she 's only been waiting for the right one . ’ |
| 12 | He has been waiting for the right offer for some time after turning down an approach from Italian club Pisa several seasons ago . |
| 13 | ‘ Some of the Wimbledon Dharjees , ’ went on Maisie , ‘ have been waiting for the Twenty-fourth Imam . |
| 14 | He said : ‘ I have been waiting for the last three years for an opportunity like this and I see it as the right time in my career to take it . |
| 15 | He 's been waiting for the past half-hour . ’ |
| 16 | Tobacco advertising through sponsorship and billboards had been waiting like the last prisoners on death row for eight months following a cabinet announcement in April 1992 that the end of their last ditch stand was nigh . |
| 17 | But if lean times demand a sensible approach , that does n't mean designers are waiting for the economic upturn and a more healthy fashion market . |
| 18 | I 'm waiting for the right moment . ’ |
| 19 | I 'm waiting for the hot water , mm |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm waiting for the National Guard so I can go home , ’ he jokes . |
| 21 | Er no sir , I 'm waiting for the next item . |
| 22 | His eyes are a little protuberant , and his lips are set in a faint smile , so that as he leans forward against the wheel , gazing straight ahead through the windscreen , he seems to be waiting for the green light with eagerness . |
| 23 | Something great may just be waiting around the next corner , you know ? |
| 24 | The money will be waiting in the usual safety deposit . |
| 25 | The screw would shout ‘ Doses ’ and expect you to be waiting by the front door . |
| 26 | We were to wait for the oyster-fishing season in the Bay of Cancale without giving the boats notice and stop them as they sailed past Barfleur Head … |
| 27 | After he left the sisters , Corbett went out to the stable yard where Ranulf and Maltote were waiting with the two retainers from the porter 's lodge . |
| 28 | False atrocity stories , misguidedly spread to encourage a spirit of resistance , and well-founded rumours that the French were waiting on the far side of the Channel to launch a second invasion added to the prevailing gloom and when , on what the diarist Horace Walpole described as ‘ Black Friday ’ , people in London learned that the Jacobites were already at Derby something approaching panic swept the capital . |
| 29 | Jacques Devraux and half-a-dozen Moi trackers were waiting beside the narrow river that flowed past the camp , and the senator put his arm lightly around his son 's shoulders as they walked over to join them . |
| 30 | A score of older cadets were waiting at the far end behind what was evidently a transparent plascrystal wall . |