Example sentences of "[verb] to wait [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Would you prefer to wait a moment , to collect your thoughts and prepare yourself spiritually ? ’ asked the ambience . |
| 2 | Do you want to come back on that Mr or do you want to wait a few moments ? |
| 3 | ‘ On a long journey this may be reasonable , but if you are travelling a short distance you do n't want to wait an hour . |
| 4 | I expected to wait a while for a spawning , but within two weeks they surprised me . |
| 5 | This is no comfort for a patient who has to wait a few months ( in the past , waiting times in some centres were over two years ) but is perhaps a more rational means of distributing limited health care resources than the random waiting lists used in the past , when patients were given fairly arbitrary degrees of priority . |
| 6 | Instead he has to wait a week for next Saturday 's Victoria Ground clash with Swansea . |
| 7 | She seemed to wait a long time before she heard footsteps within , and then a light sprang up beyond the frosted glass . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , I — I 'd like to wait a little while , I suppose . ’ |
| 9 | One of these was Lynn Bari , who has typically had to wait a few weeks after her death before receiving an obituary due her . |
| 10 | Certainly those who were in the square in 1387 hoping to see the completion of the Duomo would have had to wait a long time , far longer than the span of a human life . |
| 11 | At the beginning of the 1980 's a typeface would have cost around $4,500 and you would probably have had to wait a couple of weeks while it was digitised from some master copy . |
| 12 | Though Louis had had plenty of time to gain experience of ruling and to form a court of his own in the subkingdom of Aquitaine ( he had been king there since the age of three ) , he had had to wait a long time for his father 's inheritance . |
| 13 | ‘ I have had to wait a long time for the freedom , but it will be passed down and at least I can say that I was a Freeman of Chester . |
| 14 | I have had complaints from several enquirers who , not knowing our telephone extensions , have had to wait an inordinate length of time before being connected to the operator . |
| 15 | Lonrho and its shareholders , whatever the merits of their case , have had to wait an unconscionable time for the facts to be established . |
| 16 | Patients sought a declaration that the Secretary of State and health authorities were in breach of duty as they had had to wait an unreasonable time , because of a decision not to build a new block for a hospital on grounds of cost . |
| 17 | Cloners outside the Sparc International Executive Committee have been able to place orders since August and get at least sample quantities , but they reportedly have had to wait the ‘ industry average ’ of fourteen to eighteen weeks to get volumes . |
| 18 | She 'd had to wait the best part of a month at Holmsly Manor , and then everything had happened at once . |
| 19 | We 're going to wait a little while . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ You 're going to wait a while ? |
| 21 | I have n't got to wait the whole week . |
| 22 | Apparently , it was while climbing D.P. that he spotted a new line on the buttress , but decided to wait a while and link it with another new route he had in mind for the Central Pillar of Freney . |
| 23 | But I decided to wait a while before speaking . |
| 24 | Positive thinking will have to wait a while , but it augurs well for one of the young ringsiders who turned up in his smartest suit and said : ‘ What a disgusting fight ; I wish I 'd worn my tracksuit . ’ |
| 25 | Sunderland will have to wait a little longer before knowing whether to turn left or right on to the M25 . |
| 26 | He may have to wait a few years to enter a Tory Cabinet . |
| 27 | CHRIS Patten may have to wait a year or two before he returns to the Commons . |
| 28 | Although the plant will have the capability to make it , low-calorie frozen yogurt — that most decadent of Western desserts — may have to wait a while . |
| 29 | This can be contrasted with the centesimal scale where we may have to wait a fairly long time to ascertain the action of the remedy . |
| 30 | which is useful when they may have to wait a whole year for payment for their wheat harvest , or for the sale of fat cattle . |