Example sentences of "wait for him in " in BNC.

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1 He had sent her , with Ned and the barmaids and Heaven knew how many others watching , to wait for him in his bed .
2 He often went out alone , Italian style , and Jeanne would wait for him in the street after the cafés closed .
3 Never mind , I 'll wait for him in the car . ’
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 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 .
6 Any horrors waiting for him in the future were compensated by this moment in time .
7 A man came home late from work one night to find his wife sitting waiting for him in the living room .
8 But he had no sense that they were being watched , that somewhere between these walls and the windows glinting in the transitory sun there were people waiting for him in anxiety , grief , perhaps in fear .
9 Waiting for him in the studio seven people are busy setting up the camera and lights and unwrapping white plaster pillars and an assortment of very beautiful chairs and tables .
10 The ice crown was waiting for him in the city , protected only by the ghosts .
11 He envied Boxer Sullivan waiting for him in the farmhouse , as like as not with a bottle of beer in front of him or at the very least a cup of tea .
12 He lived for his reunion with Elizabeth ; all that sustained him until then was the daily letter from his new wife waiting for him in his lodgings .
13 All Ruritania is waiting for him in Strelsau and Black Michael with half the army , too .
14 Although the citadel had been rebuilt by the Emperor Gia Long in 1802 , its palaces and temples had been designed and constructed faithfully in the style favoured by China 's Ming emperors and at the entrance to the Dai Noi , the Imperial City itself , Tran Van Hieu had been waiting for him in the shadow of the Ngo Mon , the " Bull Gate " roofed in gold tiles like the Gate of Heavenly Peace in Peking .
15 She was waiting for him in the apartment .
16 But there was no time to give this disturbing idea attention ; Tealtaoich was nearly at the Trees and the Trees were grouped together watching him and waiting for him in complete silence and it was important not to miss a single instant of any of it .
17 She remembered the time she had returned the coffee she had borrowed from him , and how she had instinctively known there was a woman waiting for him in this very room .
18 Curtis , the local CID sergeant , was waiting for him in the police station .
19 All the same it was Dr Kate Ash who was waiting for him in her small flat , dressed in one of her smart business suits , two matching cases ready by her side .
20 When he arrived at work that morning the result of their labours was waiting for him in a blue folder .
21 Lewis Luther was there within five minutes , and I was waiting for him in the foyer by Purvis 's desk .
22 He said he had been assured that a hospital place was waiting for him in Leicestershire .
23 Gareth Morgan , his deputy and confidante , waited for him in the large office with windows overlooking the City .
24 It waited for him in Zürich , Poshekhonov would say , the pay-off .
25 It is a matter of dispute how they parted ; friends of Hayward suggest that Eliot left Carlyle Mansions on the morning of the marriage , leaving only a note of explanation behind — or , even , that he told Hayward as the taxi waited for him in the street below .
26 I waited for him in our little house by the Smithy but he never came .
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