Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] wait for " in BNC.
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| 1 | After I was at court I had to go back to Low Newton to wait for a few weeks before I could go to Styal prison . |
| 2 | He envied Boxer Sullivan waiting for him in the farmhouse , as like as not with a bottle of beer in front of him or at the very least a cup of tea . |
| 3 | That holiday morning I found Miss Louise waiting for me just inside the door with a pair of old shoes and a pair of slippers in her hands . |
| 4 | In the deserted city , Roger Duroc waited for Nguyen Seth and the resettlers . |
| 5 | When Callahan heard that Hornbaker was on his way , he was as jumpy as Gary Cooper waiting for Frank Miller and his gang to ride into town in High Noon . |
| 6 | DAMON Hill aims for a hat-trick of victories in today 's Italian Grand Prix at Monza — and keep Williams team-mate Alain Prost waiting for the world championship crown . |
| 7 | I feel a bit naughty to tell the truth , going off like that and leaving Mr Jackson waiting for me . |
| 8 | The days are long and difficult for 62 year old Fred Robson waiting for vital heart surgery . |
| 9 | He said : ‘ Mr Millman waited for some time but she failed to arrive and he stupidly decided to drive home himself . ’ |
| 10 | Sir Leon said there was no need for the United Kingdom to wait for its inflation rate to reach the European average before joining the exchange rate mechanism , nor to hold back until the further removal of capital and exchange controls next summer . |
| 11 | ‘ Yesterday morning , ’ began Juliet , ‘ when we were both on Hunter Ward waiting for the doctor to finish talking to Mum . ’ |
| 12 | When I returned to the laibon 's village with the paperwork , he was looking out towards Ol Doinyo Lengai waiting for the sound and the dust and the cries of his cattle coming back . |
| 13 | A warmth filled her , Hari smiled as she thought of Craig Grenfell waiting for her , eager for news of what was happening to clear his name . |
| 14 | I paddle quickly , aware too that the Ocean 's cold has gnawed its way uncomfortably through the thin GRP of the kayak and into my poorly protected flesh Tony waits for me , to point out a small brown luck that is lurking among some rocks to our right . |
| 15 | With this fearsome military instrument at his disposal Henry waited for the invasion . |
| 16 | Nor can Colm Henry wait for the day when the whole ‘ chemistry ’ part of photography is done away with . |
| 17 | You 'll never guess what he does at University Fiona wait for it … he 's studying to be Astrophysicist . |
| 18 | At Derek 's we found a local photographer called Steve Blay waiting for us . |
| 19 | She went out , leaving Peter Suvarov to wait for a more rational assessment of Julia 's state from Annunziata . |
| 20 | Amaranth had hurried to the Grand and went into the crush bar at ten minutes after six to find Charles Harvey waiting for her . |
| 21 | I mean , what we 're trying to do in the visual arts is to spend what limited money we have to produce a better situation for the visual artist and for the public who gets pleasure and enlightenment from visual arts than exists at the moment , so rather than just prop up the status quo , which is what is would be very easy to do if one just kept the pot boiling so to speak by giving a few grants to artists here and sitting at the centre of a spider 's web in Tunbridge Wells waiting for applications to come in to us and then responding . |
| 22 | When the Christian Brethren movement and the Catholic Apostolic Church emerged in Britain in the 1830s and the Millerites in New England waited for the return of Christ in the 1840s , adventism had already taken firm root in evangelicalism ( where it has remained ever since ) . |
| 23 | Matters were not helped when we found Doctor Agrippa waiting for us in a seaside tavern , cheerful and full of life as a well-fed sparrow . |
| 24 | We have owls in our garden ; they cried softly last night as I lay in my glass coffin , Snow White waiting for the fairy to wake her into feminism with a kiss . |
| 25 | It had been forty-five minutes earlier when Dr Barbara Moule had parked her Fiesta at the Chesterton Hotel , finding John Ashenden waiting for her a little anxiously . |