Example sentences of "and waited for [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I am long on stamina and waited for a red-breasted merganser aimlessly doing nothing under the cliff on which lay the dozing duo . |
| 2 | He waited for the right moment , walked calmly across the road , knelt down , put his neck across the railway line and waited for a loaded van to sever his head . |
| 3 | He withheld the signal until the range was close enough to be deadly , and the stocky Welsh ponies were stretching their frenzied necks and rigid nostrils for the impact , and then flung up his arm , and waited for the tremendous thrumming in the air , that maddening , intoxicating sound like a thousand wild geese all taking flight at once . |
| 4 | Indeed I insisted , against his advice , on waiting , and waited for the best part of two hours , but then could wait no longer . |
| 5 | Outside , he joined up with Mahmoud and waited for the two women . |
| 6 | He turned on the shower and waited for the hot water to flow through so that he could adjust the temperature . |
| 7 | He prepared the altar for Mass , opened the-door and waited for the small trickle of his congregation to enter . |
| 8 | The fifteen-year-old boy leapt from his bed with escape in mind , but he decided it would be unfair to leave his eleven-year-old brother to face what was to come alone , so he got back into bed and waited for the social workers to come upstairs . |
| 9 | Gathering her courage together , she descended from the gig and waited for the old man to precede her across the porch . |
| 10 | Doris smoothed a hand over her rounded knee and waited for the next question . |
| 11 | William got two oars ready , and waited for the next wave . |
| 12 | We sat and waited for the next move , which turned out to be a visit from Younis and Bilal , insisting that Brian was trying to escape . |
| 13 | The Company did not send expeditions of its own into this area for over a century ; like the East India and the Royal Africa Companies it established trading posts and waited for the local inhabitants to come and trade at them . |
| 14 | I polished off the lager , put my feet up and waited for the editorial meeting . |