Example sentences of "waited for [pers pn] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ah , David , ’ said Julia , sighing as she waited for him on the pavement . |
| 2 | Then there was nothing again but the darkness ; the darkness that he knew waited for him at the foot of the mountain . |
| 3 | Joseph hung back walking slowly as the others moved on again , and his mother , noticing his discomfited expression , waited for him at the side of the track . |
| 4 | I waited and waited for him at the points and eventually met him about three or four o'clock in the morning for the first time . |
| 5 | It is a matter of dispute how they parted ; friends of Hayward suggest that Eliot left Carlyle Mansions on the morning of the marriage , leaving only a note of explanation behind — or , even , that he told Hayward as the taxi waited for him in the street below . |
| 6 | Whenever Jacob was meeting Deirdre outside college hours he waited for her at the bottom of Patrick 's Hill where it joined King Street . |
| 7 | Clare was in the bathroom , and he waited for her at the bottom of the stairs . |
| 8 | After she had signed in , Brian Everthorpe directed her to the section of the car park reserved for visitors , and waited for her at the entrance to the Administration Block . |
| 9 | I remember , I waited for her in the waiting room . |
| 10 | Her nerve almost failed her when , more than three hours later , they came into the city along Karl Marx Prospekt and made the turn towards Arsenal Street , where number nine waited for her like the transit house to a hundred-year-old hell . |
| 11 | I waited for you at the gate . |