Example sentences of "[verb] 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 | Yeah er and they made you wait wait an hour , duck . |
| 8 | FRANCIS AMPOFO , who has waited a year to reclaim the British flyweight title , tonight challenges Scotland 's James Drummond in London . |
| 9 | ‘ She has waited a long time for rest . |
| 10 | Clough has waited a long time for a decent run to establish himself after more than two years as squad makeweight . |
| 11 | These results caused Jonah Barrington , the former world No. 1 who has waited an age for signs of Englishmen who might become world beaters in the way that he did , to make an interesting boast . |
| 12 | ‘ You mean wait a couple of months ? |
| 13 | She seemed to wait a long time before she heard footsteps within , and then a light sprang up beyond the frosted glass . |
| 14 | wait wait a minute , look this is how you do it , do it as if you 're in the buggy you see , you put your head through there , put your , there now |
| 15 | ‘ But Paul says wait a bit , no hurry , and it 's his decision . ’ |
| 16 | It it it 's not the sort of thing when the gas man calls that the man is being having a gun pointed at him he says wait a minute can I see your card please . |
| 17 | and rung the A A , so as I got through to the A A man I says erm , you know , I says I , where I was parked and all like that and where I was stood and the chap says oh I 'll get a , a van up to ya as soon as I can , but I says wait a minute , I says my car 's just arrived and Joan was the mechanic , he lifted bonnet up and touched something and you brought it down did n't you ? |
| 18 | I 'd waited a bloody long time to be with you again , and there I was , behaving like a blasted prima donna and wasting my chances . |
| 19 | She 'd waited the few moments it took for his lean , athletic figure to be swallowed up in the crowd , feasting her eyes on his receding back , fighting back the threatening tears . |
| 20 | She had guessed by that time that , since he had n't yet stated why he 'd waited an hour to see her , he was saving what he 'd come to tell her until they were inside her flat . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , I — I 'd like to wait a little while , I suppose . ’ |
| 22 | One of these was Lynn Bari , who has typically had to wait a few weeks after her death before receiving an obituary due her . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Lonrho and its shareholders , whatever the merits of their case , have had to wait an unconscionable time for the facts to be established . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |