Example sentences of "and the [noun sg] wait " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have the husband and the child waiting for lunch . ’ |
| 2 | British Telecom profits doubled in one year and the public waited for increases in telephone charges , the the usual consequence . |
| 3 | The case had attracted the attention of the world 's press and the public waited eagerly for the climax . |
| 4 | I told him the captain was out walking , and the man waited , like a cat waiting for a mouse . |
| 5 | She was floating along the aisle of a dimly lit church , the only reality the beautiful white dress she was wearing and the man waiting for her at the altar , and even he was shrouded in a mist , preventing her from seeing his face . |
| 6 | His sabotage had opened all the doors around the ship , and the ramp waited for him invitingly . |
| 7 | He went back to the tray where the soup and the whisky waited for his comfort . |
| 8 | ‘ Hundred foot garden , ’ said the woman and Amanda set off to verify this while Don and the woman waited . |
| 9 | and the number waiting over two years fell by 16 per cent . |
| 10 | — a substantial reduction — and the number waiting longer than one year has reduced by a quarter . |
| 11 | The number of patients waiting at the end of last year rose to 990 and the average waiting time had risen from 35 weeks to more than a year . |
| 12 | The number of patients waiting at the end of last year rose to 990 and the average waiting time had risen from 35 weeks to more than a year . |
| 13 | Nobody emerged , and the coachman waited , the doors remaining closed . |
| 14 | Finlayson found Major Gibbs and the adjutant waiting for him . |
| 15 | On 6 May 1628 he was the first to propose proceeding through the Petition of Right , although he did not use the phrase , and the House waited for word from Coke before acting . |
| 16 | While wrinkles may be beginning to appear on Sun 's ONC — and the market waits on a fully-configured commercial DCE package — NobleNet is positioning itself to mop up the interim business , targeting developers with mixed proprietary and open architectures and non-communicating RPC 's . |
| 17 | Ward began to explain , about Iris Sunderby and the boat waiting for us in Punta Arenas . |