Example sentences of "[pers pn] wait for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the kids are really young , it 's no use expecting them to wait for Christmas Day — and two four-month-old Siberian tiger cubs at Howletts animal park , Canterbury , are no exception . |
| 2 | Nor was I waiting for rescue from above . |
| 3 | I waited for help . |
| 4 | I waited for half-an-hour or so , then I went out to the phone box on the quay and rang his home . |
| 5 | I waited for energy , but it did n't materialise . |
| 6 | Well hold on would you wait for grandma |
| 7 | If you wait for inspiration it may be more difficult for the Careers Service to give constructive advice . |
| 8 | ‘ Have we kept you waiting for supper ? ’ |
| 9 | As she waited for sleep , Dot thought she saw the face of the coat-owner gazing out of the dark with a complexion as pale and refined as tissue-paper . |
| 10 | Perhaps nothing , but as she waited for money which did n't seem to be coming , it was fairly certain the crash was going to mean something . |
| 11 | She felt she was in a private hell of her own on Saturday morning while she waited for Naylor to call . |
| 12 | She waited for realisation , for pain to smite her . |
| 13 | The last step but one creaked protestingly and she grimaced apprehensively , her body almost turning to stone as she waited for Dane to suddenly appear and demand to know what she was doing . |
| 14 | She waited for nightfall . |
| 15 | She knew as she waited for Reception to ring her back that it could well be , if Cara had been in touch with her parents , that she stood to come off the phone feeling worse than ever . |
| 16 | She waited for morning , the words playing through her mind and keeping her from sleep . |
| 17 | He told her that the bracelet had the woman 's music in it , and sometimes , if you waited for rain and then listened very carefully , you could just hear it , very faintly , like someone playing in the distance . |
| 18 | Can we wait for prosperity and education to keep mankind in check ; so the humble villager , the wretched dweller in the shantytown does n't choose the traditional , unthinking , long-term option of a dozen children , the decision which in the long term destroys both them and theirs ? |
| 19 | ‘ Should n't we wait for Beuno ? ’ said Betty . |
| 20 | ‘ We wait for Quincx to get back first . |
| 21 | We wait for time to test Constance Cumbey 's prophecy that the New Age is the herald of the Antichrist . |
| 22 | Now , while we wait for tea how would you like to send a fax to New York ? ’ |
| 23 | Our breaking-in weeks were nearly over and we waited for news of posting to Initial Training Wing . |
| 24 | ‘ How long will they wait for payment ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Why Cotswold Lion , I wonder ? ’ she said , looking around the pub , as they waited for lunch to be brought to them . |
| 26 | So to while away the time while they waited for dark again they sat in a back room and fiished the waistcoat . |
| 27 | ‘ You still have n't told me about your adventure , ’ Cinzia reminded him as they waited for Palottino to arrive . |
| 28 | We parted company , he to wait for light on Bowfell , which did not look likely , while I headed down The Band for Hodge Close and an impatient climbing partner . |
| 29 | He finds the surge of earth more beautiful than the sea because it waits for man to inhabit it , when man comes into his own and finds his true home . |
| 30 | As he waited for night to fall , he saw no movement in the house of anyone who resembled his father . |