Example sentences of "he wait for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should he wait for a year , by which time the quarrel between Hindus and Muslims over the disputed Ayodhya mosque will have cooled down ? |
| 2 | He waits for a beat , then says : ‘ I freed whooooooo ? ’ |
| 3 | Bored as he waits for the liquid to boil , eyed admiringly by his pint-sized partner , he plays with wooden spills , dipping them into the solution and passing them through the flame beneath . |
| 4 | Yet he can still play for his former club while he waits for the clearing period to expire . |
| 5 | He taps his pencil up and down as he waits for the finance director to finish . |
| 6 | As he waits for the computer to load up the programmes , he scans the rolls of newly arrived faxes . |
| 7 | The occasional sly lift is one thing but I suspect Irish referee Stephen Hilditch will become suspicious when he sees Adolf Malan waving at him from upon high while he waits for the throw . |
| 8 | With this in position he waits for the right moment to switch through the distance shot film of the city , coupled with the live action inlay of the characters . |
| 9 | I suggest that he waits for the consultation paper and I think that he will then be reassured . |
| 10 | Robert half-expected the whole cycle to start again , so long had he waited for an answer to this question . |
| 11 | One night as he waited for a young man to find him a cab , I saw my chance . |
| 12 | He waited for a few seconds , but the noise did not repeat itself . |
| 13 | Having marched from Inverness along the side of Loch Ness he waited for a day in the hope that more pack-horses would turn up , but when none were forthcoming left behind most of his supplies and provisions , though his men were still heavily burdened as they crossed the mountains in search of the enemy ; roads in the Highlands , and local sources of supply , were almost non-existent . |
| 14 | He waited for a fortnight after the heavy snowfall of late November and still nothing appeared to have been said with regard to Sarah 's move to Leeds . |
| 15 | The 27-year-old , from Hornsey , north London , died in hospital after being attacked as he waited for a train with his brother at Finsbury Park Tube station . |
| 16 | It seemed as if it were coming from a long distance and he waited for a moment , and the moment went into a full minute , and then slowly he opened the door . |
| 17 | As he waited for a colleague delivering mail to Mr Reenan 's £300,000 Oxfordshire home , Ron said : ‘ One minute he 's talking about going to Diana , the next he 's gone to a newspaper . |
| 18 | He waited for a clue , a reminiscence of her own Viva , but she was silent . |
| 19 | When he reached the workhouse , he waited for a minute to make sure his face was suitably tearful and frightened . |
| 20 | He waited for a contradiction , but Alexei only nodded . |
| 21 | He waited for a full half an hour by his watch before he opened it . |
| 22 | While he waited for a response he got up and moved ponderously to the wind-up gramophone housed in a carved oaken cabinet in a cornet of the room . |
| 23 | He waited for a minute or two . |
| 24 | He waited for a moment while Mr Hellyer removed another paving stone and added it to the growing pile in the hedge . |
| 25 | The charges arise from an incident last January during which an off duty police officer was allegedly hit with a hammer while he waited for a taxi in Cheltenham . |
| 26 | The charges arise from an incident last January during which an off duty police officer was allegedly hit with a hammer while he waited for a taxi in Cheltenham . |
| 27 | Twenty-seven year old Alan Dobbs from Tredworth in Gloucester collapsed at Schipol airport as he waited for a flight to Briatin . |
| 28 | A POLICEMAN was injured in his patrol car yesterday in an accident as he waited for a nuclear weapons convoy to pass through Glasgow , writes Alan Forbes . |
| 29 | He waited for a few moments to compose himself , then left the court with his arm round his wife , Shirley , to face a large crowd of waiting reporters and cameras . |
| 30 | As Hugh Paddick recalls , he waited for every possible noise that Ken could produce — and it went on and on — and then there was silence . |