Example sentences of "[pers pn] wait for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wait for the drown |
| 2 | Now , in these quiet moments as I wait for the world about to awake , I find myself going over in my mind again passages from Miss Kenton 's letter . |
| 3 | I might eat a bread roll without the butter while I wait for the meal to arrive , and slimline or diet drinks act as a wonderful filler . |
| 4 | I wait for the inevitable question . |
| 5 | I take advantage of the silence as I wait for the punch-line to review the facts and fictions of the short story of Dudley Moore 's life . |
| 6 | I wait for the bellow . |
| 7 | I wait for the door to open , and for the expression on the old dragon 's face . |
| 8 | ‘ I have to walk to the bus stop , and when I wait for the bus there 's some of them slag me off and they push you about . |
| 9 | Indication can be quivertip or butt indicator and generally I wait for the reel to revolve slowly so I know it is not a line bite . |
| 10 | ‘ Her father and I wait for the day she grows out of it , but — ’ |
| 11 | Department managers , new checkouts , do all the bits and pieces on , and wanted me to do , while I wait for the shift to come in , and they start at seven . |
| 12 | Foot flat to the floor , you can count to three while you wait for the response . |
| 13 | But if you wait for the cholesterol advice pendulum to complete its swing , you can probably tuck into a cream doughnut instead . |
| 14 | ( If you wait for the Personnel and Training Department to develop you , you 'll wait forever . |
| 15 | A catapult lives with you until the last moment ; it stays tensed in your hands , breathing with you , moving with you , ready to leap , ready to sing and jerk , and leaving you in that dramatic pose , arms and hands outstretched while you wait for the dark curve of the ball in its flight to find its target , that delicious thud . |
| 16 | You wait for the other side to post their part back to you on your client 's purchase , thereby leaving you with the initiative to complete the exchange procedure on your client 's sale , and this you should do immediately . |
| 17 | Erm I think bro broadly , certainly by the time you 've got through to the later spring th th there is y yes I mean i in a sense there are sort of three areas if you like but , but very broadly the areas which had not been taken over yet i is very much a slower process of consolidation and then you wait for the next rule . |
| 18 | ‘ Take Leonora into the gardens for a stroll round in the sunshine while you wait for the results , Doctor , ’ advised the serene , smiling nun . |
| 19 | Even the public transport is emblazoned — you wait for the ‘ Marlboro Tram ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ Perhaps an escort , ’ hinted Isabel , worried that Matilda was going to suggest she wait for the good father 's return . |
| 21 | All this I learn from the bus driver who chats to me as we wait for the traffic ahead to move . |
| 22 | While we wait for the pendulum to swing : Gail Counsell warns that house prices could take years to recover after the latest rise in interest rates |
| 23 | While we wait for the doctor 's diagnosis the patient may easily die . |
| 24 | We wait for the ambulance , window open so they can identify us , doilies neatly heaped on yellowing copies of the local paper , the cat perturbed by my frantic resuscitation efforts . |
| 25 | What follows , while by no means comprehensive , is NME 's guide to the world blown wide open by the greatest war movies , a world we 'd like to see on TV as we wait for the next one . |
| 26 | We wait for the sun . |
| 27 | What you are about to suggest , of course , is that we wait for the Kilcharran to come along and hoist the damn thing to the surface . ’ |
| 28 | But for a little moment Martigues still stands , and we drink coffee on the quay as we wait for the boats to come in . |
| 29 | He drags morosely on the cheroot while we wait for the pretty young newsreader to get through the latest government verbals on the self-pitying unemployed . |
| 30 | Now we wait for the call from the bigger TV companies , who will obviously want a talented team such as us for one , or all , of their quiz shows . |