Example sentences of "[modal v] wait [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She must wait months , if not years , for an interview with an Entry Clearance Officer at a British diplomatic mission on the Indian subcontinent , go through endless interrogations about such subjects as the colour of the family 's goat or the number of rooms in the house she lives in or how many guests there were at the wedding and what happened on the wedding night . |
| 2 | I might go out and buy it straight away , I might wait weeks , months before I acquire the particular thing to give to you as a gift , you 've got ta wait on on me giving it to you . |
| 3 | Could wait hours . |
| 4 | I was fascinated by our shiny mahogany Sobell wireless set as a kid , and would wait hours for Dick Barton to emerge from the back . |
| 5 | Well I think I would wait Stefan until the oily film had gone off the top of the water for tender plants but then I am one of these people that would always tender plants with tap water anyway because you never know what 's in do you in rain water , anything can congregate in a pot , it can be infected with all sorts of things and I would just use this water on the garden in the first twelve months or so or use it on shrubs and things like that if it was required and then go on to er things like perennials but then you could use it on almost anything but with the proviso that you may have contamination in that water if it 's from Water Board . |
| 6 | If you 've got a , if you 're linked to a big file and you got a lot of linking formulae , you can wait hours for it to finish . |
| 7 | you can wait months sometimes . |