Example sentences of "he wait [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next question : who was he waiting for that night ? |
| 2 | Follow through : Phelam O'Neill practices his swing as he waits to tee-off in the Coca-Cola Pro-Am Golf tournament held at the City of Derry Golf Club |
| 3 | He waited for three-quarters of an hour , until the mottled grey of false-dawn had given way to a pink-and-pearl flush above the silent rooftops , then left , walking between the rows of drawn curtains and smiling at his wrong choice . |
| 4 | He waited for five minutes then went in after them . |
| 5 | He waited for Siban to find a way to phrase the request which was so obviously his intent , but instead Siban rose to his feet and stalked away towards the door , his departure so abrupt that Alexei was taken by surprise . |
| 6 | It was a big place and he waited for twenty minutes while girls came and went . |
| 7 | He waited for some minutes , then , very quietly and carefully , he went back to the door of her dressing-room . |
| 8 | He waited for some sign of agreement from her but none came and he went on , ‘ It was something I found out . ’ |
| 9 | And so he waited for these really rather unexpected people to explain what they required , and hoped he would be able to do whatever it was . |
| 10 | He waited with roused senses for what would come next ; and what came was so transparent that he had hard work not to laugh , and set out without more ado to take every advantage of a stratagem that would not have fooled a child in arms . |
| 11 | He waited in growing irritation while a woman minutely described her missing cat , and impressed on the desk-sergeant that it would only answer to the name Roger . |
| 12 | He was given the Distinguished Flying Cross , though his service record showed no combat missions , and he waited till 1952 to claim it . |
| 13 | One of the mysteries of this period is why he waited until five months after he had left office to describe his vision of a new republic to the voters . |
| 14 | Yet he waited until 1986 for his first official race on the dirt and began his tarmac career just a year later . |