Example sentences of "[verb] 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 | And Derek was sat waiting all that time , but they must have panicked then so they erm we 'll have to wait and see . |
| 10 | But it was n't uncommon for clients to stand waiting all night . |
| 11 | Andy 's form is exceptional and he has waited such a long time to make the jersey his own that he will not want to miss a game . ’ |
| 12 | Yet the mega-buck manager of Ewood could have had little complaint — Rovers lost to a side who played revivalist football of a kind manager Howard Kendall has waited 22 months to see . |
| 13 | Jacob learns what it feels like to be cheated himself , even on a wedding night for which he has waited seven years ! |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | When I had finished , I was made to wait two hours before being called back into the office for questioning . |
| 16 | he says wait twelve months and then I said something like that I said , them all intention of being used . |
| 17 | Not that she regretted her action in coming home when she had — she 'd waited all afternoon , for goodness ' sake , and then some . |
| 18 | The seventy five year old bachelor had finally got his girl at the second time of asking years He 'd waited half a century for this kiss with his new bride Rose , and he still could n't believe his luck . |
| 19 | If she 'd waited another year she would have garnered twice the price , as the yuppie age was dawning , but unfortunately for herself and her family , Jane had no financial sense whatsoever , except , thanks perhaps to her Scottish ancestry , she always spent as little as possible . |
| 20 | He had had to wait four hours in the out-patients department , he said . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Gianluigi 's away and if that woman thinks I 'm going to wait one second longer … ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Now I 've got to wait another month ’ . |
| 28 | Well , they said , I said well , so I 've got to wait twenty years ? |
| 29 | Beam waiting two years |
| 30 | I can remember waiting some minutes before walking through the house , knowing that there must be proof of burglary at the back door , and when I got there in an uncomprehending state , lo and behold the kitchen door was broken right down ! |