Example sentences of "[vb infin] wait a " 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 | ‘ Well , I — I 'd like to wait a little while , I suppose . ’ |
| 4 | I do n't know , wait a minute till I see if I can where can I , can you see wait a minute , I 'll show James first . |
| 5 | Lesley rummaged in the depths of her calf handbag for a matching key-case as they crossed at the lights , and flicked out the smallest of the keys on the bunch it contained ‘ You wo n't mind waiting a minute for me ? |
| 6 | For example , most people will not mind waiting a few extra minutes in a hospital waiting room if they know that the doctor has been called away to deal with an emergency . |
| 7 | We do n't mind waiting a bit . ’ |
| 8 | Positive thinking will have to wait a while , but it augurs well for one of the young ringsiders who turned up in his smartest suit and said : ‘ What a disgusting fight ; I wish I 'd worn my tracksuit . ’ |
| 9 | Sunderland will have to wait a little longer before knowing whether to turn left or right on to the M25 . |
| 10 | He may have to wait a few years to enter a Tory Cabinet . |
| 11 | CHRIS Patten may have to wait a year or two before he returns to the Commons . |
| 12 | Although the plant will have the capability to make it , low-calorie frozen yogurt — that most decadent of Western desserts — may have to wait a while . |
| 13 | This can be contrasted with the centesimal scale where we may have to wait a fairly long time to ascertain the action of the remedy . |
| 14 | which is useful when they may have to wait a whole year for payment for their wheat harvest , or for the sale of fat cattle . |
| 15 | Do n't think to yourself that you will have to wait a week for that garter stitch sweater — that 's the negative approach . |
| 16 | If indeed , as Le Figaro magazine has said , AIDS is a ‘ world war ’ , the definitive account of the war will have to wait a while . |
| 17 | it is perhaps a tribute to the resilience of both that they can come together at all : for the result , we may have to wait a few more cricket seasons . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm afraid you may have to wait a little longer , ’ he replied apologetically . |
| 19 | ‘ I think you 'll have to wait a while before you get another chance to be captain . ’ |
| 20 | It is left to Minerva to give a more balanced view ; reporting on a large trial of the same drug she notes ‘ men hoping for a drug treatment for benign prostatic hypertrophy will have to wait a while longer … small improvements in a urinary flow rate and a small reduction in the size of the gland have to be balanced against negative effect on both libido and potency . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Then they may have to wait a long time . |
| 22 | We had an officer here wanting you to make a statement , but he 'll have to wait a couple of days . |
| 23 | Most modern chemists would probably say that we 'd have to wait a long time by the standards of a human lifetime , but perhaps not all that long by the standards of cosmological time . |
| 24 | ‘ Did n't you warn Jones that he 'd have to wait a while ? ’ |
| 25 | Usually in the Labour party any other organization you 're gon na have to wait a year but the women did n't . |
| 26 | But the next episode of this little soap opera will have to wait a while . |
| 27 | Is she making a promise to the British people that this improvement will be financed by an increase in taxation , or that , just as the Conservative Government have always aspired to improve that target , so will a Labour Government , and the British people will have to wait a long time for such an improvement to materialise ? |
| 28 | FILM star Jenny Seagrove will have to wait a while yet for her Grand Opera House debut . |
| 29 | Those actively interested in diamonds will have to wait a very long time before they will be able to put their hands on these cosmic ornaments . |
| 30 | Look , you 'll have to wait a minute while I get some gloves . |