Example sentences of "[pron] waited for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Duck or diver , it had dived , and , though I waited for long minutes , it did not appear again . |
| 2 | I waited for further transmissions . |
| 3 | I waited for further explanation and none came . |
| 4 | I waited for twenty minutes , and the numbers advanced only to three hundred and ninety-three , so I wandered off to the station newsagent 's to look at girlie magazines . |
| 5 | Marius and I waited for twenty minutes and then walked into Mike 's room , only to find him snoring loudly , unconscious . |
| 6 | I waited for three buses to go past before I got on to one . |
| 7 | I waited for another few seconds and then crossed the landing to my own flat where I completed my own process of locking myself in for the night . |
| 8 | It was n't really surprising therefore that she was wound tighter than a spring with suppressed energy as she waited for Ace to return . |
| 9 | He wished Annabel were not so insecure and dependent upon him ; for the past few months , as she waited for Avanti to make up its mind , she had needed constant emotional support and reassurance from Scott , who had felt her clinging to him , almost like a physical weight on his back . |
| 10 | She waited for three rings , but she knew that Hugh would n't pick up a machine that might buzz and shout ‘ Pronto ! ’ at him . |
| 11 | She waited for this to happen . |
| 12 | She waited for some minutes on a platform , a train came and she would have got into it if that had been possible . |
| 13 | The week 's work was done and she waited for another hard week to start in this ugly , holiday dress . |
| 14 | We waited for two hours , but nobody came . |
| 15 | We waited for two minutes before the combined strength of thirty-five pounds of EP-12 plastic explosive tore the car apart . |
| 16 | We waited for three hours and did not move . |
| 17 | I sat beside her and we waited for those who had not yet arrived . |
| 18 | We waited for ten more minutes , and then we hurried on . |
| 19 | They waited for two more days until Faele had recovered her strength and the winds had quietened . |
| 20 | They waited for another thirty-six hours , but no further stragglers arrived . |
| 21 | George nodded and motioned her to silence again ; although they waited for another quarter of an hour , it was a vain vigil ! |
| 22 | As they waited for these to declare , the television lights in the club 's library lightly grilled nervous Liberal Democrats as the party 's organiser , Mr Des Wilson , discussed their prospects . |
| 23 | They waited for some long-legged creature to come stepping delicately out of the trees . |
| 24 | Peggy moved her head in a gesture that brought her mother 's and Henry 's full attention on her , and they waited for some seconds before Peggy , moving up the hall towards the drawing-room , explained , ‘ It 's … it 's his particular part of the day ; he … he likes to see to her himself . ’ |
| 25 | He waited for three-quarters of an hour , until the mottled grey of false-dawn had given way to a pink-and-pearl flush above the silent rooftops , then left , walking between the rows of drawn curtains and smiling at his wrong choice . |
| 26 | He waited for five minutes then went in after them . |
| 27 | He waited for Siban to find a way to phrase the request which was so obviously his intent , but instead Siban rose to his feet and stalked away towards the door , his departure so abrupt that Alexei was taken by surprise . |
| 28 | It was a big place and he waited for twenty minutes while girls came and went . |
| 29 | He waited for some minutes , then , very quietly and carefully , he went back to the door of her dressing-room . |
| 30 | He waited for some sign of agreement from her but none came and he went on , ‘ It was something I found out . ’ |