Sentence examples for start to wait from inspiring English sources

The epithet "poor thing" is repeated to the point where you start to wait for it, like a tic.

As the movies proceed, you start to wait, with a prickle of anticipation, for the instant at which the camera will suddenly, with a kind of suave intensity, glide at speed toward a character's face, as he or she approaches a point of crisis, be it of clarity or mystification; Bergman reminds us that, when we are struck by a thought, or a memory, we are truly struck, as if by the slap of a hand.

A common perception for the cause of this decline is that students start to wait for the exam.

The message from the Mr. Hashim, the defense minister, was that Iraq has been content from the start to wait for American troops to march north -- harassing American columns as they flank cities like Basra, Nasariya, Samawa, Najaf and Karbala, ambushing, capturing and killing American soldiers as opportunities arise -- until the moment when they arrive at the gates of Baghdad.

"Now they're starting to wait until their utilization rates are somewhere in the 90s".

So with time T being the time at which the mobile device starts to wait, we now consider three cases for calculating the waiting time.

Moreover, let the random variable T represent the time interval between the starting point of the current broadcast cycle and the moment that the mobile client starts to wait for the target data item.

Since the data D i is broadcast n i times during a broadcast cycle, the mobile client retrieves the nearest replicate of the target D i according to the entry time the mobile client starts to wait.

Case 1: 0 ≤ T < L i 1 B D. In this case, the mobile client starts to wait before the first replicate of the target item in the m-th broadcast cycle is broadcast.

Proof Without loss of generality, we assume that the mobile client starts to wait for the target data item D i in the m-th broadcast cycle as in Figure 10.

I started to wait for the (mammography) bus that used to come, but it never came.