Example sentences of "waited [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The terrors of the workhouse were thus extended beyond the portals of death ; for the least favoured section of the population there waited the ultimate humiliation of dissection by medical students , a fate hitherto reserved for convicted murderers . |
| 2 | As he waited the young man began to feel the tension knotting his stomach . |
| 3 | In the wings waited the proud husbands , boyfriends and parents . |
| 4 | Inside each brown case waited the empty skull-face , folded flat , with a flappy rubber nose and hard cylindrical snout , though they frightened Dot less now than they used to . |
| 5 | The train steamed at speed through the night and at 04.00 halted briefly at Hanover where , on the platform , waited the portly figure of General von Hindenburg , who had been brought out of retirement to become Commander-in-Chief . |
| 6 | As a whole the season had not brought a successful fishing , which , sad to relate , would condemn to bachelorhood for another year many Lewismen who waited a successful season to enable them to begin life in partnership with a fisher lass . |
| 7 | He waited a long while , looking out all the time for Caspar . |
| 8 | We waited a long time at Enniskillen , an RAF helicopter buzzing above the castle . |
| 9 | He waited a long time , and when the young doctor finally came out , it was almost dark . |
| 10 | Anabelle waited a long time , watching from the other side of the gate . |
| 11 | By this time we feel as if we are Hemingway 's companion , hauling out the bodies one by one , so that when he says ‘ Well you waited a long time to get sick brother . |
| 12 | They waited a long time and nobody appeared but the Brigadier did n't call again . |
| 13 | They waited a long time while the hounds drew the covert . |
| 14 | ‘ At the same time , there was one other bit of me that was very practical that realized that the only money to be made if you were to stay in England — and I never thought of going anywhere else — was to get into commercials , and I waited a long time until a script came along that I thought was genuinely funny . |
| 15 | We waited a long time , and Charlotte wrote more advertisements . |
| 16 | He waited a long time for her response . |
| 17 | She waited a long time ; so long , she must have fallen asleep , for the next thing she knew the room was in darkness , and Connor was in bed beside her . |
| 18 | I had been in the armed forces long enough to know that you waited a long time for everything and I saw no reason why a dental appointment should be any different , |
| 19 | She waited a long time in a small office , but after an hour a policeman came into the room . |
| 20 | As the Press and television cameras waited a short distance away at a community centre , the coach slipped quietly into Niddrie Mains Drive and on to Wauchope Terrace . |
| 21 | Brides with husbands in social class I had their first baby on average thirty-two months after marriage in 1971 , but waited a full year later ( to forty-four months ) in 1979 , a delay of 38 per cent ( table 4.11 ) . |
| 22 | I called and whistled and waited a full hour and a half , No Dawn . |
| 23 | Doctor Teesdale waited a little while , but no more sounds came from the receiver . |
| 24 | He waited an excessive length of time for a psychiatrist to examine him and make a report . |