Example sentences of "while [pers pn] wait for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I might eat a bread roll without the butter while I wait for the meal to arrive , and slimline or diet drinks act as a wonderful filler . |
| 2 | Department managers , new checkouts , do all the bits and pieces on , and wanted me to do , while I wait for the shift to come in , and they start at seven . |
| 3 | While I waited for my hamburger to grill , the proprietor offered to photograph me , with my own camera , fondling a chameleon . |
| 4 | A very cold lump formed at the back of my spine while I waited for the rest of it . |
| 5 | She laughed and continued , ‘ Piers has been keeping me entertained while I waited for you . |
| 6 | Hour after hour the legions marched past , walking as much over each others ' bodies as over the ground , while I waited for the queen . |
| 7 | ‘ While I waited for the doctor , worried stiff , a girl arrived , advanced in labour . |
| 8 | I chat with her while she waits for the tub to fill . |
| 9 | But she must wear a special cap to protect her head while she waits for more surgery . |
| 10 | Verity wiggled her bottom , plonked it back down , calmly braked and shifted up to fifth , dawdling along behind the green Parceline truck while she waited for it to overtake an Esso tanker . |
| 11 | She wandered across the concourse to the Travellers ' Fare buffet and sat warming her hands around a cup of coffee while she waited for her train to arrive . |
| 12 | Her plan was really just to find the place , then go away and have tea somewhere while she waited for him . |
| 13 | Rosalba prayed , often , these days while she waited for Tommaso 's return to Rupe and the walk they would take together , as he had told Caterina they would , and she applied herself to acquiring those skills at crochet , at knitting , at pattern cutting and sewing that Fantina learned from her sisters , who were themselves taught by Auntie Rosa , later , in America . |
| 14 | While she waited for the water to come to the boil she put on her boudoir cap to conceal the steel haircurlers ( dragon 's teeth through the night but never mind that ) , and her Jaeger dressing-gown ( which cost the awful sum of £5 ) , and set forth for her regular deliverance on the lavatory . |
| 15 | She should have got something to drink while she waited for the chemist but she had n't thought of it then . |
| 16 | Accordingly he disappeared into the upward-travelling lift , while she waited for one to take her down a floor where a corridor linked this building to the next one , in which the twenty-four-hour blood bank was located . |
| 17 | The words finished on a long , drawn breath while she waited for the words she had no wish to hear . |
| 18 | The car was locked , and she was forced to sit on a low wall that surrounded the garden while she waited for David to return . |
| 19 | She felt she was in a private hell of her own on Saturday morning while she waited for Naylor to call . |
| 20 | By ten to two she had deposited the larger of her two suitcases , had partaken of a cheese sandwich and a cup of coffee and , seated in the hotel lounge , and with time to kill while she waited for Ven , she was again being plagued by the vexed question of that abominable interview . |
| 21 | HOSPITAL officials have pledged to investigate allegations that a 90-year-old patient was not properly cared for while she waited for an operation . |
| 22 | Foot flat to the floor , you can count to three while you wait for the response . |
| 23 | A catapult lives with you until the last moment ; it stays tensed in your hands , breathing with you , moving with you , ready to leap , ready to sing and jerk , and leaving you in that dramatic pose , arms and hands outstretched while you wait for the dark curve of the ball in its flight to find its target , that delicious thud . |
| 24 | ‘ Take Leonora into the gardens for a stroll round in the sunshine while you wait for the results , Doctor , ’ advised the serene , smiling nun . |
| 25 | While we wait for the pendulum to swing : Gail Counsell warns that house prices could take years to recover after the latest rise in interest rates |
| 26 | While we wait for the doctor 's diagnosis the patient may easily die . |
| 27 | Now , while we wait for tea how would you like to send a fax to New York ? ’ |
| 28 | We can have a little heart-to-heart while we wait for him . ’ |
| 29 | He drags morosely on the cheroot while we wait for the pretty young newsreader to get through the latest government verbals on the self-pitying unemployed . |
| 30 | We all have to keep up appearances while we wait for the tide to turn . |