Example sentences of "he [verb] wait a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead he has to wait a week for next Saturday 's Victoria Ground clash with Swansea . |
| 2 | It it it 's not the sort of thing when the gas man calls that the man is being having a gun pointed at him he says wait a minute can I see your card please . |
| 3 | She had guessed by that time that , since he had n't yet stated why he 'd waited an hour to see her , he was saving what he 'd come to tell her until they were inside her flat . |
| 4 | He had to wait a quarter of an hour , but six or seven minutes after that he was climbing the weedy steps to the quay on the other side . |
| 5 | Then he had to wait an hour for a taxi , but made it just in time to introduce Phil Collins . |
| 6 | Now he wished he had waited a year and a half and done the same thing here . |
| 7 | But he said wait a minute I hear him coming down the stairs . |