Example sentences of "and waited for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I am long on stamina and waited for a red-breasted merganser aimlessly doing nothing under the cliff on which lay the dozing duo . |
| 2 | Settling himself in one of the big , shabby armchairs , Tug gazed suspiciously at the television screen and waited for a picture to appear . |
| 3 | To get started on the making of the wine you needed three or four bees which were freely available from friends or neighbours , you filled a jam jar with water to about half an inch from the top , added two desert spoonfuls of sugar , placed the ‘ bees ’ on the water , covered with muslin and waited for a fortnight . |
| 4 | Zacchaeus gritted his teeth and waited for a great long telling off from Jesus . |
| 5 | She closed the door and waited for a moment , then turned and went into the little bedroom . |
| 6 | He waited for the right moment , walked calmly across the road , knelt down , put his neck across the railway line and waited for a loaded van to sever his head . |
| 7 | She knocked loudly on the kitchen door and waited for a moment , aware of the total silence from within the room . |
| 8 | When the show finally ended and the house lights came up , Lucy found herself a backstage corner and waited for a while longer . |
| 9 | Again Hassan closed his eyes and waited for a second . |
| 10 | And did they , they must have had lean times if they sat around and waited for a boat , one did n't come in some days may be . |
| 11 | Then she snuffed out the light , and waited for a moment , getting her owl-vision . |
| 12 | ‘ During the first walk we saw a weka , but the second time was much more exciting because we sat on a log and waited for a kiwi to return to its nest . ’ |
| 13 | Alan sighed and turned over , and she curled herself around his curved back , and waited for a more friendly sleep to claim her . |
| 14 | It seemed one hundred years that those poor people looked up at him — at Gabriel the fraud — and waited for a miracle . |
| 15 | I joined the local branch of the I.A.M. and waited for an observer . |
| 16 | Once , at Milan airport , we were herded to the gate and corralled in an area almost big enough for half of us , then shifted to a bus with six seats and standing room for forty , in which the one hundred and twenty of us stood and waited for the idiot who always arrives twenty minutes late despite having been called ten times and being the subject of an Interpol missing persons search . |
| 17 | He stood listening as they crossed the hall and waited for the sound of the lift gates closing . |
| 18 | We lined up , dispatching practice balls into the shimmering blue yonder with ill-disguised pride and waited for the Master to work his way along , one of us on video duty all the while . |
| 19 | I crumpled this ticket and waited for the next to be called . |
| 20 | I was in a very black and negative mood , I remember , and waited for the trapeze artists to fall and kill themselves , for the female contortionist to twist herself into such a knot of meat that she would never get disentangled . |
| 21 | At the Lock , Marie sat in a hollow in the sand-hills by the canal and waited for the magic to start ; she waited for everything to be made all right . |
| 22 | I found myself a nice bit of grass with a backrest against a tree trunk and waited for the show to begin . |
| 23 | He smile in bewilderment at a succession of ads — the psychoprofile of mankind , he thought — and waited for the programme to begin . |
| 24 | On Monday morning , I stood in a queue at the Diamond , and waited for the Dublin coach . |
| 25 | He closed his eyes and waited for the pupils to widen . |
| 26 | Before the first series went out we got ourselves an established and admired distributor and waited for the programme sales cash to roll in . |
| 27 | We sat on the sand and waited for the placings to come over the Tannoy . |
| 28 | As a practical measure , keep a full record of all jobs that you apply for and the responses that you receive to show that you have not simply sat back and waited for the money to roll in . |
| 29 | Yanto closed his eyes and waited for the inevitable . |
| 30 | When the pro-oralist John Howard succeeded Charles Baker at Doncaster upon the latter 's death , Kirk felt he needed to move and waited for the opportunity to do so . |