Example sentences of "'d wait " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she 'd waited another year she would have garnered twice the price , as the yuppie age was dawning , but unfortunately for herself and her family , Jane had no financial sense whatsoever , except , thanks perhaps to her Scottish ancestry , she always spent as little as possible . |
| 2 | He 'd messed up his note-book , scared off the hen pheasant that he 'd waited ages to lure to the feeding ground , nicked his helmet , that was all . |
| 3 | One young girl who had stood giggling at the hapless Mark for more than ten minutes was told that she could go back to her department as she 'd waited long enough . |
| 4 | Pottz was pressured into taking off because he 'd waited too long . |
| 5 | ‘ I would 'ave helped yer move yer trunk and chair if yer 'd waited . ’ |
| 6 | He 'd forgotten to shut up his dogs ; they 'd waited patiently outside the front door . |
| 7 | And with Forest still at the bottom of the Premier League , Clough insisted : ‘ If I 'd waited to offer him the contract after Saturday he may have blown it . |
| 8 | Dowd had stayed out of the Retreat all the time he 'd waited for Godolphin ( a wearisome three days ) even though it would have given him some measure of protection against the bitter cold . |
| 9 | Perhaps that was why he 'd waited . |
| 10 | Carson had only just put the phone down after trying to get Alison 's number from Enquiries , but as he 'd waited for his call to be taken he 'd thought of her , perhaps contemptuous of his anxiety and annoyed by his persistence , and he 'd hung up without even making his request . |
| 11 | I 'd waited a bloody long time to be with you again , and there I was , behaving like a blasted prima donna and wasting my chances . |
| 12 | And then , when she felt that she 'd waited long enough , she quietly made her way back toward the dressing rooms . |
| 13 | He 'd waited for Lucy but then , when she had n't come out alone , he 'd stayed well back in the shadows . |
| 14 | It had seemed an expedient course of action at the time , as she 'd waited there in her kitchen , in the late afternoon dark , for Wakelate and his client to return to the house . |
| 15 | The warning her anxious mother had impressed on her as they 'd waited for Folly 's plane at Athens airport had obviously been quite correct . |
| 16 | Of course , if I 'd waited just a few months , I could have had anyone I liked . |
| 17 | She 'd waited the few moments it took for his lean , athletic figure to be swallowed up in the crowd , feasting her eyes on his receding back , fighting back the threatening tears . |
| 18 | And then he 'd waited there , too ashamed to face other nomes , until the car went back to wherever it came from , and had got off , and was living out the rest of his life quietly and without any fuss . |
| 19 | Not that she regretted her action in coming home when she had — she 'd waited all afternoon , for goodness ' sake , and then some . |
| 20 | She had guessed by that time that , since he had n't yet stated why he 'd waited an hour to see her , he was saving what he 'd come to tell her until they were inside her flat . |
| 21 | Nor had she seen anyone she knew at the airport while she 'd waited for her flight . |
| 22 | The seventy five year old bachelor had finally got his girl at the second time of asking years He 'd waited half a century for this kiss with his new bride Rose , and he still could n't believe his luck . |
| 23 | It was the moment they 'd waited years for . |
| 24 | They 'd waited hours to get a glimpse of a legend … |
| 25 | He came out of the Harvester but it would have been nice if he 'd waited for there to be a gap in the traffic . |