Example sentences of "[noun sg] and wait for " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could erm you could , you could stick it in like the bedroom and wait for someone to go in and have a shag |
| 2 | I let silence be my reply and wait for him to continue . |
| 3 | So I took another — four hundred and thirty this time — and a seat and waited for half an hour . |
| 4 | Thanking him for giving me a lift , I sat down in the passenger seat and waited for Chapman to get moving . |
| 5 | He just settles himself into the cushion of the rear seat and waits for me to speak . |
| 6 | I do like she says , and sit there with the damp towel round my neck and wait for her to come back . |
| 7 | Catching sight of herself in a wall mirror , Loretta closed her mouth and waited for Bridget to go on . |
| 8 | So Sara , troubled , sipped her tea and waited for Jenny . |
| 9 | Her cuts were treated , her bruises examined , and then she and the two children sat in the lounge of one of the private wards , sipping tea and waiting for Bodie to come and pick them up . |
| 10 | I went to Argentina and sat in a cell and waited for the torturers to come in . |
| 11 | Edward drew rein and waited for him to catch up — their uncle having ridden back along the line to urge the stragglers to greater effort . |
| 12 | They climbed one wall to get away from the car and waited for their eyes and ears to tune themselves to the darkness . |
| 13 | I found myself a nice bit of grass with a backrest against a tree trunk and waited for the show to begin . |
| 14 | I just hang round the entrance and wait for her . |
| 15 | In the traditional hunting communities , those who were a burden — because they had become too old to hunt or to follow the family as it trekked to a new hunting ground — took themselves off to an ice-floe or an isolated rock and waited for death . |
| 16 | We sat on the sand and waited for the placings to come over the Tannoy . |
| 17 | They depict a stereotyped norm where father makes all the decisions , goes out to work and waits for his meals to be prepared by the wife with occasional assistance of the daughter . |
| 18 | But it should do more these days about practical matters — like the tax system and keeping yourself together while you 're out of work and waiting for the next job , for that is fifty percent of what you 'll be doing . |
| 19 | They all walked around to the back of the coach and waited for the driver to open the boot for them . |
| 20 | Some even made me jump After this we got back on the coach and waited for the ferry . |
| 21 | Dawn found me stretched out on the bench below the War Memorial in Glencoe Village soaking up the first warm rays of sun and waiting for the shop to open . |
| 22 | There were no books in the room so all I could do was look out of the window and wait for the quarterly chimes from the Cathedral Clock . |
| 23 | Reluctantly she lowered her window and waited for him to speak . |
| 24 | You may all go out into the playground and wait for your parents to come and take you home . ’ |
| 25 | But , oh he 's quite happy , he 'll curl up in the back of a car , but when I come home and he goes so berserk if I 've left him at home , I know that he 's been watching and listening and waiting for me all that time . |
| 26 | He stood listening as they crossed the hall and waited for the sound of the lift gates closing . |
| 27 | Meanwhile , Philippe Bonard had emerged from the house and was greeting Iris and her group , now installed in the mini-bus and waiting for Gebrec to drive them . |
| 28 | The best way to explain Message Queue Interface is to compare it with a standard remote procedure call , where a client sends a request to another machine and waits for the response . |
| 29 | But I am long on stamina and waited for a red-breasted merganser aimlessly doing nothing under the cliff on which lay the dozing duo . |
| 30 | But she held her peace and waited for the miracle . |