Example sentences of "waited for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had known it would not satisfy them , and he waited for the rumbles to grow before he said : ‘ Very well . |
| 2 | Hour after hour the legions marched past , walking as much over each others ' bodies as over the ground , while I waited for the queen . |
| 3 | He repeated the action , waited for the rise and fall of the man 's chest . |
| 4 | ‘ Where did you stay last night ? ’ he asked while we waited for the cameras to be set up . |
| 5 | As the Dutchwoman and I waited for the musicians to gather themselves up she commented on the sea symbols of fish and anchor in the nave . |
| 6 | Culley waited for the spasm to pass , and loosened his hold a fraction . |
| 7 | She frequently waited for the King outside Buckingham Palace , even though he did not even know of her existence . |
| 8 | While Coleridge waited for the sun to set behind Dowsborough and Higher Hare Knap , he wrote the first fluent draft of a poem reworked soon afterwards as ‘ This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison ’ . |
| 9 | In great pre-dusk ‘ rafts ’ they waited for the sun to set ; or flew back and forth , veering from side to side . |
| 10 | She listened to his voice , waited for the tone and then cradled the receiver gently . |
| 11 | The estimable Anderson spoke half-truths as his friend and fellow bag-carrier , Billy Gunn , now explained as he sat on a green caddies ' bench and waited for the call to duty . |
| 12 | And then both factions waited for the battle that must come . |
| 13 | ‘ For Bretonnia and King Louis ! ’ he cried and waited for the response . |
| 14 | As we waited for the lights to change I noticed a sleek white sports car which had stopped at the foot of the church steps to take in a passenger . |
| 15 | He waited for the questions . |
| 16 | Waited for the darkness to lift . |
| 17 | And so I waited for the darkness of the Tongan night to lift , my fingers tightly crossed . |
| 18 | Hiding in the hedge a safe distance from the truck , she waited for the man to appear . |
| 19 | Whitlock waited for the man to leave the warehouse before following him out and padlocking the chain . |
| 20 | Rostov saw that Arghatun was watching him , and waited for the man to ask how he had known what was going to happen . |
| 21 | She sat down on one of the seats , and waited for the man in the woollen hat to come up , see her , and check . |
| 22 | ‘ He 's the least likely murderer , though , Jim , ’ said Wickham as they waited for the man to join them . |
| 23 | The other complaint we receive is ‘ I waited for the issue to come out and my ad was n't in it . |
| 24 | He waited for the girl 's regular visits to the sick cow just as impatiently as his dog waited to be fed . |
| 25 | He sat on the edge of the bed in his hotel room and waited for the phone to be answered . |
| 26 | She waited for the phone to ring at the other end . |
| 27 | Afraid she might doze off if she gave in to temptation and lay down on the bed , she sat down instead on the room 's only chair , and picked up a book , absorbing not a single word as she waited for the sounds that would mean he was turning in for the night . |
| 28 | Red in the face and thoroughly hot and uncomfortable , I waited for the laughter to subside . |
| 29 | He waited for the laughter to die down and then , ignoring Mickey Aronson , he leaned his head out of the window , gave his gravelly laugh and confided to the other men : ‘ A bigger ignoramus I never met ; he does n't even know that ships and cars are always female . ’ |
| 30 | He listened to a baseball update and waited for the sponsor 's commercial before turning to her . |