Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] for him in [art] " in BNC.

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1 He had left and walked back to the hotel , and by the time he reached it the police were waiting for him in the lobby .
2 Little was done for him in the three years up to his seventeenth birthday when , like so many others , he found companionship and , ironically , the security he craved for by joining the army .
3 When he arrived at work that morning the result of their labours was waiting for him in a blue folder .
4 The driver of the truck sent to meet Charles and his baggage at the railhead south of Arras , had told him that Lord Christopher — Charles did n't ask the surname — was waiting for him in the Officers ' Mess of 2nd Grenadiers .
5 The ice crown was waiting for him in the city , protected only by the ghosts .
6 She was waiting for him in the apartment .
7 Curtis , the local CID sergeant , was waiting for him in the police station .
8 Lewis Luther was there within five minutes , and I was waiting for him in the foyer by Purvis 's desk .
9 She felt her knees begin to buckle , but his strength held her to him — taking her fevered body into his embrace , heaping fire on fire until she was crying for him in a voice unlike her own .
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