Example sentences of "he [was/were] wait for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She kept waiting for him to do something , but he hesitated , as if he were waiting for her . |
| 2 | As she had come round the corner of the house from putting her bicycle in the old stable block , Inspector Blakelock had been standing at the front door almost as if he were waiting for her . |
| 3 | He was waiting for her in the lounge . |
| 4 | Maybe there was some difficulty about Lilian 's dress or he was waiting for her to get back from the hairdresser 's . |
| 5 | I think about Mr Jackson and I get a sort of uncomfortable feeling when I remember he was waiting for me at the house and I did n't come back . |
| 6 | Or perhaps he was waiting for them to start counting their blessings there and then . |
| 7 | After school , he was waiting for me and he exposed himself to me . |
| 8 | With the provoking incident of the previous week still fresh in his mind , Lefevre had taken the precaution of hiring a cab in advance of any possible need , telling the driver half-truthfully that he was waiting for someone . |
| 9 | A spokesman for Mercury said this week that he was waiting for engineers to fit boards to hook up the exchange . |
| 10 | When Sally got off the bus he was waiting for her , leaning against the bonnet , smoking a cigarette and looking more than ever the dashing young man-about-town . |
| 11 | He was waiting for them with his barge by the first footbridge over the canal as they came down from the moor . |
| 12 | And he was waiting for the final match in the other group between Stefan Edberg and Boris Becker to see if his No 1 ranking could be threatened . |
| 13 | He did not mind , because he was waiting for his boy to come home from school and then he 'd have his run along the riverbank . |
| 14 | He was waiting for Shelton to make his move , but Shelton never did . |
| 15 | He never found anything ; when I left he was waiting for a new pair to be brought up from Auckland , and wondering if the insurance company would cough up . |
| 16 | Alice probed Bert ; but , it seemed , he was waiting for Jasper to " formulate a commitment appropriate to our resources " . |
| 17 | Cowslip himself was at the other end of the hall and Hazel realized that he was waiting for him to reply . |
| 18 | An uncomfortable pause while he sat forward on the sofa holding his coffee cup in both hands and gazing into it as if he was waiting for some kind of chemical reaction . |
| 19 | He was waiting for the crowd to disperse from the grave so he could say his own private farewells when a respectable old lady with a blue rinse came up to him and said , ‘ You do n't remember me , do you , I 'm Mrs Flaherty . ’ |
| 20 | He was waiting for a couple of soluble aspirin to break up in a glass of water as he stood before the opened mirror-cabinet . |
| 21 | ‘ How did you know he was waiting for us ? ’ asked Billie as they took a taxi into the centre of London . |
| 22 | The young woman shook her head and steeped the cloth on Sycorax 's brow again , and bent closer , keeping her mind focused on her song , for she knew that someone was at her back , at the opening of her cabin , beyond the screen of rushes that stood there , and he was waiting for her . |
| 23 | In fact he was waiting for the place , its calm and its unconcern , to make him feel better . |
| 24 | This time he was waiting for me at the table . |
| 25 | As he was waiting for the barmaid to pour the drinks , Dexter could not resist temptation . |
| 26 | Jekyll 's servant had received by the same post a letter similar to mine , and he was waiting for me with the locksmith . |
| 27 | The next time he saw her she was emerging from the very lift he was waiting for . |
| 28 | ‘ You think he was waiting for someone ? ’ |
| 29 | He was waiting for them to leave . |
| 30 | He told me that he was waiting for me to return . |