Example sentences of "a [noun sg] wait for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Try pulling one of the other 's single doors open on a mountain in a gale waiting for a gust to catch it and snap the stay . |
| 2 | Maxim had an hour and a half to wait for a train to Osnabrück , and half changed his mind about hiring a car , but that meant lots of signatures , and might be difficult to hand back if he flew home on a trooping flight from RAF Gütersloh . |
| 3 | In the early 1970s that committee was , in one officer 's words , ‘ a committee waiting for a job ’ . |
| 4 | I told him the captain was out walking , and the man waited , like a cat waiting for a mouse . |
| 5 | He stayed that way for a moment waiting for a sudden onslaught of dizziness to pass ; three or four times , he shook his head and bloodbeads flicked across the room . |
| 6 | ‘ He seems able to turn a pleasant pub into a speakeasy waiting for a raid . |
| 7 | They forgot about Tavett and moved on to discuss Pascoe and how , when they came to think of it , he had looked very like a man waiting for a major heart attack . |
| 8 | Speaking before the ASEAN standing committee in September 1984 , the Malaysian Foreign Minister declared that it would be a mistake to wait for a solution to the Kampuchean problem before making attempts to implement the idea of the zone of peace , freedom and neutrality . |
| 9 | Charles reproved her for rushing on ahead of his story , and told her about this Sergeant lurking within like a spider waiting for a juicy fly . |
| 10 | A PATIENT waiting for a heart-lung transplant was beaten up by a gang outside a Chinese takeaway . |
| 11 | So it might pay a mother to wait for a few days and see what happened to the baby . |
| 12 | Whenever I saw her , she always smiled at me , It was as if she 'd got me confused with someone else , someone important Once I had half an hour to wait for a transport . |