Example sentences of "wait for [pers pn] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wanted desperately to reach out to him , but she knew that she had to wait for him to make the first move . |
| 2 | While waiting for them to reach the outer limit of their seaward tack , we fished for our enormous aviator 's chart which was larger and more colourful , if little more useful , than theirs . |
| 3 | Today the Royals can not relax for a second , can not step one foot outside their own home without being met by a barrage of photographers waiting for them to make the smallest slip . |
| 4 | The command TIME displays the current time on the screen and waits for you to enter the new time . |
| 5 | And waited for her to make the next move . |
| 6 | But nor was it every day that in broad daylight — given that the light was n't all that good — that she stood in what was now quite heavy rain getting soaked while her amorous swain waited for her to make the next move . |