Example sentences of "[vb past] wait a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I expected to wait a while for a spawning , but within two weeks they surprised me . |
| 2 | She seemed to wait a long time before she heard footsteps within , and then a light sprang up beyond the frosted glass . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Apparently , it was while climbing D.P. that he spotted a new line on the buttress , but decided to wait a while and link it with another new route he had in mind for the Central Pillar of Freney . |
| 5 | But I decided to wait a while before speaking . |
| 6 | But the poem of his that he most needed reassurance about was Homage to Sextus Propertius ( 1919 ) , and for that he had to wait a long time . |
| 7 | There was no proper funeral , as there had been no proper wedding ceremony ; they simply hauled the waterlogged body onto a bonfire of driftwood , and even though the sea wind at dawn had made the fire hot enough to break the stones of the beach , it was six hours before the body was gone , and then they had to wait a whole day before they could rake the ashes for his bones and send them to her . |
| 8 | 1976 , it may be remembered , was the year of the great drought , and we had to wait a frustrating three months until there was rain in sufficient quantity and enough water in the river to try it out . |
| 9 | I had to wait a long time for an answer , and just before the door opened I nearly came sufficiently to my senses to run away , but sanity came too late . |
| 10 | Gedanken had to wait a minute for her eyes to get used to the inky black darkness again . |
| 11 | I had to wait a long time shut in . |
| 12 | And I was a bit late , so I had to wait a long time to get served . ’ |
| 13 | And he only had to wait a couple of erm points left on his licence so if I 'd taken the dangerous thriving or something he could have lost his licence but erm that 's besides the point . |
| 14 | She explained that with some people one had to wait a long time before one saw what one wanted to see . |
| 15 | We had to wait a long time because I had my mother to look after and she was rather difficult . ’ |
| 16 | He had to wait a quarter of an hour , but six or seven minutes after that he was climbing the weedy steps to the quay on the other side . |
| 17 | Residents had to wait a year before they could put in claims and it 's only now that they 're getting their offers through , based on the district valuer 's assessment of the value of their homes . |
| 18 | Yeah oh yeah I did n't work anywhere else in Willenhall at all , and erm but we 'd got to be in for seven o'clock and if erm you were n't in for seven o'clock and sometimes I used to hear the bell began ringing when I got to go around the corner and get into the , but you had to wait a quarter of an hour before they would let you in and that was stopped off your money and my wage was eight and fourpence a week . |
| 19 | But he said wait a minute I hear him coming down the stairs . |
| 20 | Apparently , if I had waited a bit longer prices would have been much higher . |
| 21 | Now he wished he had waited a year and a half and done the same thing here . |
| 22 | She had waited a long time for this moment . |
| 23 | After all , she had waited a long time to belong , but she had never realised she could belong so completely . |
| 24 | She was still distressed and could have wished that Mr. Crowther had waited a little longer before telling her about her inheritance , when the sadness and regret she felt about Aunt Alicia 's death was not so overpowering . |
| 25 | It was a day that twenty one soldiers had waited a long time to see . |
| 26 | Darlington had waited a long time for a shopping centre , she said , but the wait had its advantages . |