Example sentences of "he waited for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One night as he waited for a young man to find him a cab , I saw my chance . |
| 2 | He waited for a few seconds , but the noise did not repeat itself . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He waited for a clue , a reminiscence of her own Viva , but she was silent . |
| 9 | When he reached the workhouse , he waited for a minute to make sure his face was suitably tearful and frightened . |
| 10 | He waited for a contradiction , but Alexei only nodded . |
| 11 | He waited for a full half an hour by his watch before he opened it . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He waited for a minute or two . |
| 14 | He waited for a moment while Mr Hellyer removed another paving stone and added it to the growing pile in the hedge . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Twenty-seven year old Alan Dobbs from Tredworth in Gloucester collapsed at Schipol airport as he waited for a flight to Briatin . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He waited for no introduction but launched into his current theme : ‘ It 's amazing ! |
| 22 | Reloading the Walther , he waited for the lavatory to flush before going through to help the old man back to bed . |
| 23 | While he waited for the bath to fill he went through the whole scene again in his head and congratulated himself for staying so calm . |
| 24 | Now I could hear the throb of impatience in his voice as he waited for the curtain to go up . |
| 25 | He waited for the first time Phillis was out , and scored the record . |
| 26 | He waited for the blast . |
| 27 | He waited for the cuff around the ear . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He shivered in shop doorways as he waited for the traffic lights to give him green . |
| 30 | The idea of this power , this energy , came to him as he waited for the traffic lights to change so that he could cross . |