Example sentences of "he [be] wait for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Now the strings have gone slack , and he is waiting for the end . |
2 | ‘ He 's worried about Gairloch so he 's waiting for the vet . ’ |
3 | What he said was he was waiting for the government for better |
4 | In fact he was waiting for the place , its calm and its unconcern , to make him feel better . |
5 | As he was waiting for the barmaid to pour the drinks , Dexter could not resist temptation . |
6 | So he turned round the second he did , and made it look as though he was waiting for the woman he 'd just tried to kill — when they were walking along together … |
7 | He was waiting for the crowd to disperse from the grave so he could say his own private farewells when a respectable old lady with a blue rinse came up to him and said , ‘ You do n't remember me , do you , I 'm Mrs Flaherty . ’ |
8 | He was waiting for the mountain rescue team to pick him up but we had no idea he was there and neither did anyone else . ‘ |