Example sentences of "[verb] wait [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pedestrians scampered blindly across the road to catch waiting buses , the cars jerked ahead a few yards every time the traffic lights turned to green . |
| 2 | Outside the court room he told waiting reporters , ‘ I resent Blackie being branded a playdog by the gutter press . |
| 3 | He refused to comment further and told waiting reporters : ‘ You are wasting your time . |
| 4 | In what remains one of the most touching and compassionate statements of his flamboyant career , The Doc told waiting newsmen ‘ I 've been punished for falling in love . |
| 5 | He 'd messed up his note-book , scared off the hen pheasant that he 'd waited ages to lure to the feeding ground , nicked his helmet , that was all . |
| 6 | They 'd waited hours to get a glimpse of a legend … |
| 7 | It was the moment they 'd waited years for . |
| 8 | Even where communities have got together to build a school themselves , under an agreement with the government , they have sometimes had to wait years before the government sends teachers to staff it . |
| 9 | ABBA MAY HAVE HAD TO WAIT YEARS , but the Right Said Fred tribute industry is starting up early . |
| 10 | The couple stayed with the horse until a vet officially certified its death and then , to avoid waiting photographers , Diana left the Gaselees in the back of the Land Rover with a coat over her head . |
| 11 | ‘ Its figures only measure waiting time from the day a patient is put on to a consultant 's in-patient or day case waiting list . |
| 12 | As some of the options ( transfers etc ) only come up when you land on the right square , I did n't have to wait eons for Phil to finish his turn . |
| 13 | Well we 'll have to wait Kelly Ann , will we do ? |
| 14 | To deal with this , a group of merchants who wanted to trade in a particular part of the world would ask the monarch for a charter allowing them a monopoly of bringing goods from their chosen region into England , giving them rights to defend themselves against pirates and bandits with their own armed force , and letting them settle legal problems that would otherwise have to wait years until they got back to England . |
| 15 | In the first chapter we discussed the problems of the application backlog , where user departments may have to wait years for the implementation of systems . |
| 16 | As composite seven points out , when our members are injured or made ill by their work , they should not have to wait years for compensation , we need a system which is swift , fair and comprehensive . |
| 17 | My money was due on the 11th , and when I have posted this , my last stamp will be spent , and I shall have to wait 'till she remembers . |
| 18 | You 'll have to wait soup . |
| 19 | Several bicycles , left days before for repair , would probably have to wait days more to be completed . |
| 20 | I had some experience of this when I lived at home , having to wait hours for the district nurses . |
| 21 | There is no point in having to wait weeks for the concrete scaffolders , nor is there any point in having the site cluttered with pipes that are only to be needed later . |
| 22 | Not to be denied , at least a dozen fans hailed waiting taxis and set off in pursuit . |
| 23 | This is cos they tend to be high status professionals who 's time is relatively precious , so that you can go to the extent of actually having waiting rooms that you can be kept hanging around in . |
| 24 | On waiting lists , he points out that these only measure the time spent waiting patients have seen a hospital consultant and not the period leading up to that appointment . |
| 25 | My respected landladies , who are the double-distilled quintessence of considerateness and island hospitality , would think all good would leave their abodes if a dweller beneath their roof left fasting , so , in spite of all my entreaties to the contrary , a cup of tea was prepared to forestall my start ; and as I walked by the river-side and reached a road that skirts a number of very massive peat-stacks , and displays on the landward side an interminable host of peat-pits , the geniality of the sunshine was felt , and I would gladly have slackened my pace were it not that by so doing my good friends at Gress ( some eight miles from Stornoway , where I was due at eight o'clock , if I remember rightly ) , might have waited breakfast for me . |
| 26 | His Solidarity scheme , based on help for those who help themselves , has provided schools and sewers for those who might otherwise have waited years for benefits to trickle down . |
| 27 | Ford kept waiting SCARBOROUGH manager Ray McHale praised trialist keeper Stuart Ford for an outstanding display in the 1–1 draw at Fourth Division title favourites Burnley on Monday . |
| 28 | POLICE are likely to have to wait weeks before they can interview Keith Pringle the man at the centre of the Darlington siege . |
| 29 | ‘ I like to think that I have a lot to offer as well and I do n't want to have to wait years before I get the opportunity to prove myself . |
| 30 | Armed police play waiting game at siege cottage |