Example sentences of "wait a [adj] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Mr Alan Milburn said he had obtained a copy of The Waiting a secret document giving details of queues for each different consultant .
2 And I was a bit late , so I had to wait a long time to get served . ’
3 I had to wait a long time shut in .
4 He was prepared to wait a long time to gain the king 's good will , and meanwhile to support the king in his enterprises .
5 As a whole the season had not brought a successful fishing , which , sad to relate , would condemn to bachelorhood for another year many Lewismen who waited a successful season to enable them to begin life in partnership with a fisher lass .
6 By this time we feel as if we are Hemingway 's companion , hauling out the bodies one by one , so that when he says ‘ Well you waited a long time to get sick brother .
7 It was a day that twenty one soldiers had waited a long time to see .
8 I have waited a long time to catch The Economist out on an egregious factual error .
9 ‘ We have waited a long time to have car tax taken off , but VAT is still 17.5 per cent , ’ he says .
10 After all , she had waited a long time to belong , but she had never realised she could belong so completely .
11 ‘ You have waited a long time to tell me .
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