Example sentences of "[adv] to wait [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's his mother again , ’ she said , stopping suddenly to wait for Marjorie , another woman in the group , who was lagging behind . |
| 2 | On the fifth we settled down to wait on deck . |
| 3 | I knew I should go back to the stockade now , but an idea came to me and I sat down to wait for darkness . |
| 4 | Then we all settled down to wait for Madam . |
| 5 | This Friday Geraldine settled down to wait for Newsnight . |
| 6 | At half-past eleven the house was so quiet they decided not to wait until midnight . |
| 7 | Amusement lurking in her dark eyes , because that 's what people always said , Ellie signed the bill , thanked the waitress , gave her a warm smile , added a little tip , and went out to wait for Donal . |
| 8 | Nora turned back to wait for Lord Wyatt , on the road between the Panshanger gate lodge and the stables . |
| 9 | ‘ College in the morning and then I 'll be back to wait at lunch . ’ |
| 10 | Just as the interwar prophet of Blitzkrieg had also been a lobbyist for the professional army , so , in the late 1940s and early 1950s , de Gaulle was not content simply to wait for disaster to strike . |
| 11 | Luiza and Freddi have n't worked all winter , so feel they might just as well rent out their Salzburg apartment and come up here to wait for rehearsals to begin . |
| 12 | Nell had said she would meet me this Sunday morning in the coffee shop in the Great Hall , and had told me that the crews often went there to wait for train time . |