Example sentences of "waited [prep] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ah , David , ’ said Julia , sighing as she waited for him on the pavement . |
| 2 | I waited for him for an hour , outside his half-built apartment building . |
| 3 | She waited for him to be the first to speak , determined to take her lead from him . |
| 4 | I waited and waited for him at the points and eventually met him about three or four o'clock in the morning for the first time . |
| 5 | Joseph hung back walking slowly as the others moved on again , and his mother , noticing his discomfited expression , waited for him at the side of the track . |
| 6 | Then there was nothing again but the darkness ; the darkness that he knew waited for him at the foot of the mountain . |
| 7 | And Holly was gone , moving to where a space waited for him beside Poshekhonov . |
| 8 | Gareth Morgan , his deputy and confidante , waited for him in the large office with windows overlooking the City . |
| 9 | It waited for him in Zürich , Poshekhonov would say , the pay-off . |
| 10 | It is a matter of dispute how they parted ; friends of Hayward suggest that Eliot left Carlyle Mansions on the morning of the marriage , leaving only a note of explanation behind — or , even , that he told Hayward as the taxi waited for him in the street below . |
| 11 | I waited for him in our little house by the Smithy but he never came . |
| 12 | After she had signed in , Brian Everthorpe directed her to the section of the car park reserved for visitors , and waited for her at the entrance to the Administration Block . |
| 13 | After opening nights at Blackpool , she would snub John ; when he waited for her at the front entrance with their car and chauffeur she would deliberately slip out of the Stage Door and go home by tram . |
| 14 | Whenever Jacob was meeting Deirdre outside college hours he waited for her at the bottom of Patrick 's Hill where it joined King Street . |
| 15 | Clare was in the bathroom , and he waited for her at the bottom of the stairs . |
| 16 | I remember , I waited for her in the waiting room . |
| 17 | Her nerve almost failed her when , more than three hours later , they came into the city along Karl Marx Prospekt and made the turn towards Arsenal Street , where number nine waited for her like the transit house to a hundred-year-old hell . |
| 18 | I waited for you at the gate . |
| 19 | He dialled out , and as he waited for it to be answered he knew he was using a line more private than anything set up between the Kremlin and the White House . |
| 20 | As he waited for it to be answered he drummed lightly on the desk top . |
| 21 | He waited with her for eight hours at the Northampton car park . |
| 22 | He waited with her for eight hours at the Northampton car park . |
| 23 | ‘ I think I 'll take up teaching permanently , ’ she whispered to Bodie , who held her hand as he waited with her on the landing . |
| 24 | But the good-night was not as definite as it sounded and Fritz , cowed though he was , knew it and walked with Erika to her bus-stop and waited with her in the cold until the bus did trundle along , and even then he made an attempt to get on it with her , a ploy which , with a deft use of her elbow , Erika foiled , leaving him standing at the bus-stop ; a lonely rejected youth , bowed as with the sorrows of all the world — and yet irresistibly comic . |
| 25 | Félicie waited with him for news of the birth , and during the anxious time Modi asked her for advice , knowing that Jeanne was too preoccupied in looking after him and coping with her mother 's often unhelpful interference to look after a new baby alone . |
| 26 | His life aboard was entirely idle ; the others waited on him like two wives , catering to his needs and bolstering his ego . |