Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] wait for " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd stopped in Port Patrick harbour to wait for the tide . |
| 2 | Bottomley mum 3-hour wait for op |
| 3 | The men from the Rathcoole district waited for the order to come for their release , but nothing happened . |
| 4 | So Pete and Diane left the rail and stepped out of the boat house into the mild spring air to wait for him . |
| 5 | Housemartins like tremolo notes on the fence wire wait for heat and the fulmination of flies that lie numbed in crevices all around me . |
| 6 | Dear Guitarist There was I , sat on Bracknell station waiting for a train with 20 minutes to go . |
| 7 | Sunday best pale and awkward teenagers , unsure and toughly giggly , sit around the central dance floor waiting for the first two or three to start dancing so that the rush can begin . |
| 8 | I hold the bunch stiff as a tennis racket waiting for a serve . |
| 9 | There is no council housing waiting for them , and the homelessness , debt and marital problems that accompany unemployment have become rural as well as city problems . |
| 10 | Outside in the hall , his team leader waited for him . |
| 11 | But Greenford was in Middlesex and many was the night I spent in the pissing rain having walked to Acton Town station to wait for the first train home in the morning . |
| 12 | For an anxious moment Ace waited for the suit 's air system to cut in . |
| 13 | When the demonstrators reached the municipal government offices , there were some scuffles with a public security unit waiting for the students . |
| 14 | I watched the doors close and then ran upstairs to the empty ticket hall to wait for the next train . |
| 15 | She was carried down the drive by her grandmother and rushed into the lounge to play with her toys , with a bonfire night cake waiting for her . |
| 16 | You will see groups of them clustered way out beyond the breaking surf waiting for the best waves . |
| 17 | A line of cabs at the taxi rank waited for their drivers to emerge , not as normally from the green cabman 's shelter reeking of cabbage and saveloys , but from the long humped air-raid shelter among the dusty trees . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm having a shower before breakfast , ’ Steve called out to her , and with a sigh of relief Ruth sank to a kitchen chair to wait for the kettle to boil . |
| 19 | SHE sat on the park bench waiting for Richard , her head turned to look towards the main gate . |
| 20 | Inevitably I spent long periods sitting in the staff room waiting for staff to find time for an interview . |
| 21 | If , both sexes spend equal proportions of adult life waiting for a mate ; if b 1 males spend a greater proportion of adult life seeking females than females spend seeking males , and vice versa for b 1 . |
| 22 | Sitting there in the regulation dressing gown waiting for the results of these critical proceedings , this was certainly my moment of truth . |
| 23 | If you are working on the RM Nimbus network WAIT for the Command Menu to reappear and then : |
| 24 | I sat in the restaurant car waiting for breakfast and peered eagerly through steamy windows at an obscure grey landscape , unwilling to miss any part of the new ground that I was covering . |
| 25 | The woman , who is unable to have children of her own and does not wish to be identified , is one of 485 women at a fertility clinic waiting for donor eggs . |
| 26 | On Hazely Peat Moor Bill waited for me , grinning as I slogged through the heather in the heat . |
| 27 | When he was not ducking and weaving through the cedar brush with this curious hat on his head , Gould was sitting up at night on the Appletree Flats waiting to ambush a tawny-shouldered podargus or crouching next to a hole in the ground close to Stephen 's garden gate waiting for the appearance of an unfamiliar little mouse . |
| 28 | I spent more money in Glasgow airport waiting for the plane … ’ |
| 29 | Sally left her bag in the cloakroom and met Edward in the balcony milk bar where he had a strawberry milk shake waiting for her . |
| 30 | The result was that four travellers were now sitting in the airport terminal waiting for the next flight , which was probably full anyway . |