Example sentences of "to wait [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did not have to wait long for a train . |
| 2 | Hilton tells him to wait patiently in the darkness and acclimatise himself to this new existence , stripped of all the things that had made life worthwhile before . |
| 3 | Even the Chancellor of Oxford University , Roy Jenkins , has to wait outside on the steps of the Clarendon buildings on a cold November morning , when the Sultan of Brunei is in town . |
| 4 | After the main course but before the pudding , her parents had decided that they could not afford to wait forever for the sunshine to break through . |
| 5 | It would have been more usual to have asked her with careful casualness to wait behind after the meeting but what he had to say was private and he had been trying for some weeks now to cut down the number of times when they were known to be alone together . |
| 6 | As we may have to wait even until the summer , tempers may get a little tetchy , as last night 's closing session proved . |
| 7 | ‘ If you can bear to wait here for a couple of minutes , I 'll go and see . ’ |
| 8 | The Dana andrew had told me to wait here for the girl Trefusis had sent indream after me . |
| 9 | He and Liena conversed for a while before he announced his decision to wait there for the return of Tony and Ferdy ( the Germans ) , and Dave the American , asking me to take care of Liena on the way down . |
| 10 | Then I used to wait there for the Doctor , stop there and he used to , I used to pick him up and he 'd ride up the rough road till he got to his car . |
| 11 | If you were caught , you had to wait there until the end . |
| 12 | I was instructed not to be too early — to wait quietly outside the entrance and not make a nuisance of myself . |