Example sentences of "[conj] wait for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Buy a 944 — or wait for the forthcoming 968 . |
| 2 | An attacker may break into your empty car and hide behind the front seats , or wait for you to fumble for your car keys as you approach . |
| 3 | It will be an expensive detour for users — it is much simpler to either buy Windows now or wait for Windows NT which promises links into Unix . ’ |
| 4 | It will be an expensive detour for users — it is much simpler either to buy Windows now , or wait for Windows NT , which promises links into Unix . ’ |
| 5 | He said , ‘ We can tempt him , or wait for him to tempt us , or leave . |
| 6 | Oliver asked whether they should go after Barbara Coleman or wait for the others . |
| 7 | So in future we hope that , if anyone needs to have an up-to-date picture of the reserves in , say , Nova Scotia , they could just click it up on screen rather than have to wade through some hefty document or wait for someone to get back to them . ’ |
| 8 | He was wondering whether he ought to start going through the clothes at once , or wait for Sergeant Burgess , when an attendant came to say that the sergeant had arrived . |
| 9 | If you 've had to put a plan on ice or wait for an opportune moment to announce a life-expanding decision then you need wait no longer . |
| 10 | oh , what you going to try some of this or wait for your whisky and lemon ? |
| 11 | Repeat them movement , while counting to 4 slowly , as often as you can — for instance while washing the dishes or waiting for a bus . |
| 12 | Mr Lambert said : ‘ It may be that this man was hitch-hiking or waiting for a lift . ’ |
| 13 | Prior to the Tektronix announcement , such users were confined to an IBM system using the PS/2 board or waiting for the Network Computing Devices Inc plug-in board option that is announced but not yet available . |
| 14 | The wisdom of selecting can often be appreciated when visiting old orchards , when it is necessary to either pick the apples using a ladder or waiting for windfalls . |
| 15 | ‘ Before any enactment existed with regard to actions by solicitors for their costs , a solicitor stood in the same position as any other person who has done work for another at his request , and could sue as soon as the work which he was retained to do was finished , without having delivered any signed bill of costs or waiting for any time after the delivery of such a bill . |
| 16 | And those in power ( or waiting for power ) are not about to suggest alternatives . |
| 17 | Where the man was , gone or waiting for him behind the next tree , he had no idea . |
| 18 | For example , limitations on domestic heating during winter smogs could lead to the elderly suffering from hypothermia , and prohibitions on the use of private cars could increase exposure to outdoor pollution whilst walking to work or waiting for public transport . |
| 19 | Or waiting for ? ’ |
| 20 | My dad was tied up with Dickens or waiting for General Franco to turn up . |
| 21 | During the past few months , we have again weighed upthe pros and cons of reapplying now , or waiting for the time being . |
| 22 | ‘ That is completely incorrect these are children who are waiting to be fostered or waiting for more permanent homes . |
| 23 | No doubt everyone in Mouncy Street knew what he had bought and had been looking or waiting for him to find out . |
| 24 | Other locals , not directly involved with the gangs , but basking in the glory and the protection bought rounds of drinks or waited for a chance to join in the conversation . |
| 25 | The tests show people with symptomless HIV did not benefit in terms of survival or spread of the disease , whether they took the drug immediately on diagnosis or waited for the onset of infection . |
| 26 | Sam , without any hesitation had agreed knowing that to wait for the first available fireman would delay his train 's departure . |
| 27 | Buxton initiated his Civilization Society in part because he feared that to wait for antislavery principles to permeate foreign societies of slaveholders , which he believed to be BFASS policy , ‘ would cost us half a century , and that implies the sacrifice of twenty five millions of the human race ’ . |
| 28 | It is better to begin abolishing serfdom from above than to wait for it to begin to abolish itself from below . |
| 29 | Friends believe he may take the post rather than wait for a by-election to resume his career . |
| 30 | We made the decision to go despite the lack of an organized UK presence — we are on-air with a new series running from January to March 1991 and we wanted to make contacts before then , rather than wait for MIP-TV to come around in April . |