Example sentences of "[verb] to wait [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah because if you want to go to Southwell at the present moment you go on a bus and you got to wait two hours to get one back . |
| 2 | I do n't want to hold up this alteration , and I , like Mr , do n't want to wait three years for a decision . |
| 3 | You will need to wait several hours before applying the oils . |
| 4 | Expect to wait two or three months for a reply . |
| 5 | Great difficulties arise if an aged person , who has probably just been released from hospital and who is very ill , can not manage in what is usually a two-storey house where the facilities are upstairs , and has to wait 13 months before the application for downstairs facilities is even sanctioned . |
| 6 | But he has to wait 12 months to join an NHS waiting list and two more years before he can have the surgery . |
| 7 | Robinson has a daughter who has to wait 12 months for an operation , it is no use telling her that 10 , 20 , or 25 years ago the situation was similar or much worse , because Mrs. Jones or Mrs. Robinson will still consider that the NHS is unsatisfactory today , and will naturally blame the Government . |
| 8 | ‘ We ca n't be expected to wait six weeks for another good performance . ’ |
| 9 | Meanwhile , Knowsley have been made to wait 10 days before they can attempt to put last weekend 's disappointing 2-1 defeat at Alfreton behind them . |
| 10 | When I had finished , I was made to wait two hours before being called back into the office for questioning . |
| 11 | He had had to wait four hours in the out-patients department , he said . |
| 12 | These machines are so rare that one like Ingrid 's , new , could cost £80,000 , and she might have had to wait four years for delivery . |
| 13 | The only difference then would have been that he would have had to sign , and then we would have had to wait two more weeks ; and I 'll tell you , it 's interesting , with the bill the way it 's written , to put that on the Carrington case would have meant his being alive and suffering two more weeks and honestly , I would have had to do something like that in two weeks , probably because we 'd have to work hard on him . |
| 14 | I had had to wait seven years for Evans 's pardon and another seven years for Meehan 's , and , knowing the reluctance of the Home Office even to consider whether a mistake has been made , far less admit it , I had little hopes of any quick remedial action . |
| 15 | Gianluigi 's away and if that woman thinks I 'm going to wait one second longer … ’ |
| 16 | She had cancer and it was cured and they , you know , they said , well were pretty certain that your clear but I 'm afraid you 've got to wait five years , four years and six months after they said that , it hit her again and she died . |
| 17 | Well I do n't want to do that any more cos you 've got to wait three damn weeks nearly for the blasted things to come and then if they 're no good you 've got to send them back . |
| 18 | Now I 've got to wait another month ’ . |
| 19 | Well , they said , I said well , so I 've got to wait twenty years ? |
| 20 | Further , if the recipient does not wish to wait six months he can serve a notice on the sender in which case , if the sender does not come within one month to collect them , they then become an unconditional gift . |
| 21 | I normally work on a 33MHz 486 , and do n't ever have to wait much for anything to happen . |
| 22 | They did n't have to wait long to find out where she was . |
| 23 | But we 'll have to wait five days until Sunday before we can meet Nancy on London Bridge . |
| 24 | Can the Prime Minister tell the House how he squares his vision of a classless Britain with the experience of a constituent of mine from Fulwood , who was told last May that she needed a hip replacement but that she would have to wait 14 months for the operation under the national health service , and who was told that she could have had the operation immediately had she been able to cough up £4,300 ? |
| 25 | THE MAGAZINE Private Eye will have to wait two to three weeks to find out whether it has won a retrial on libel damages of £600,000 awarded against it to Sonia Sutcliffe , wife of the Yorkshire Ripper . |
| 26 | BAD NEWS for anyone wanting to move : you will probably have to wait two years for a substantial recovery in the housing market . |
| 27 | The Kyalami Ranch was very much the sort of place where James liked relaxing : you might have to wait two hours for your dinner , but never a moment for the sun , and James is a basker , the deckchair his habitat . |
| 28 | EVER bought a sofa or a bed and been told you 'll only have to wait two or three weeks for delivery , and ten weeks later you 're still waiting … ? |
| 29 | He 'd have to wait two or three hours while Customs ran it across the road to me so I could make a quick video dub for Hurley or his spook friends before they returned the original and let the guy on through to Nicosia . |
| 30 | And that 's third party carriage forward which is even , and Peter 's even happier because he does n't even have to wait two days now , he gets his delivery next day . |