Example sentences of "[noun] waited for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thereafter the Scots waited for an answer . |
| 2 | On a wild and windy day , with gusts of rain driving into the side of the crematorium , an Anglican priest waited for the next funeral to commence . |
| 3 | Bernice waited for the Doctor to continue , but he walked on and then glanced sideways at her as if expecting another question . |
| 4 | Ken waited for the reviews anxiously , as he always did . |
| 5 | After the church ceremony , a horse and carriage waited for the newlyweds and took them to their reception , where an entertainer was waiting in the wings to take the children off the adults ' hands . |
| 6 | Three youths armed with Armalite pen-knives waited for the band to unload their gear before threatening them and attempting to drive away with their van . |
| 7 | Molly waited for an embarrassing reminiscence and got it . |
| 8 | And then both factions waited for the battle that must come . |
| 9 | Ranks of curdy milk bottles waited for a milkman who never came . |
| 10 | For three long weeks his anxious parents waited for the results of more tests which would confirm whether he had this almost unknown condition , A-T . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | Ginny waited for a bus and watched people darting along the pavements and in and out of shops . |
| 13 | They travelled up the goods line from Blackburn waited for a clear road at Hellifield Junction , got onto the long drag and worked up to the summit . |
| 14 | Eagerly , Wilson waited for an answer , quite convinced of what it would be . |
| 15 | While Coleridge waited for the sun to set behind Dowsborough and Higher Hare Knap , he wrote the first fluent draft of a poem reworked soon afterwards as ‘ This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison ’ . |
| 16 | Cameron waited for the minister to finish his ritual of nodding and handshaking with the congregation . |
| 17 | Elinor waited for the apology she felt was due from Clare . |
| 18 | Rab waited for the explosion . |
| 19 | Shelley waited for a while alone in the clinic . |
| 20 | Owen waited for the words which would justify his own intervention . |
| 21 | After Theo had gone , Vincent waited for the right moment to break his own news to Sien . |
| 22 | Kiah waited for a second or two . |
| 23 | Our business is personal with him and if you get between us — ’ The factor waited for the threat but a tall cloaked figure standing beside Menzies had pulled his arm to forestall him . |
| 24 | Blanche waited for the door to click before she asked the next question . |
| 25 | Gilbert waited for the lightning strike that would finally find them , and began to babble a hopeless prayer . |
| 26 | The Duke waited for a moment . |
| 27 | The men from the Rathcoole district waited for the order to come for their release , but nothing happened . |
| 28 | While the prophetic people waited for a great military leader , and the Dark Power scoured the skies for signs of a cosmic invasion , God slipped into the world almost unheralded . |
| 29 | It is touching but rather embarrassing that after the film the rest of the people waited for the foreign quests to leave first , and clapped us when we went out . |
| 30 | For an anxious moment Ace waited for the suit 's air system to cut in . |