Example sentences of "waited for the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Hour after hour the legions marched past , walking as much over each others ' bodies as over the ground , while I waited for the queen .
2 He repeated the action , waited for the rise and fall of the man 's chest .
3 Culley waited for the spasm to pass , and loosened his hold a fraction .
4 She frequently waited for the King outside Buckingham Palace , even though he did not even know of her existence .
5 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 ’ .
6 In great pre-dusk ‘ rafts ’ they waited for the sun to set ; or flew back and forth , veering from side to side .
7 She listened to his voice , waited for the tone and then cradled the receiver gently .
8 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 .
9 And then both factions waited for the battle that must come .
10 ‘ For Bretonnia and King Louis ! ’ he cried and waited for the response .
11 Waited for the darkness to lift .
12 And so I waited for the darkness of the Tongan night to lift , my fingers tightly crossed .
13 Hiding in the hedge a safe distance from the truck , she waited for the man to appear .
14 Whitlock waited for the man to leave the warehouse before following him out and padlocking the chain .
15 Rostov saw that Arghatun was watching him , and waited for the man to ask how he had known what was going to happen .
16 She sat down on one of the seats , and waited for the man in the woollen hat to come up , see her , and check .
17 ‘ He 's the least likely murderer , though , Jim , ’ said Wickham as they waited for the man to join them .
18 The other complaint we receive is ‘ I waited for the issue to come out and my ad was n't in it .
19 He waited for the girl 's regular visits to the sick cow just as impatiently as his dog waited to be fed .
20 He sat on the edge of the bed in his hotel room and waited for the phone to be answered .
21 She waited for the phone to ring at the other end .
22 Red in the face and thoroughly hot and uncomfortable , I waited for the laughter to subside .
23 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 . ’
24 He listened to a baseball update and waited for the sponsor 's commercial before turning to her .
25 So I just waited for the contact , and hoped that my voice would sound calm and easy as I told Famlio my lies .
26 Some even made me jump After this we got back on the coach and waited for the ferry .
27 The men from the Rathcoole district waited for the order to come for their release , but nothing happened .
28 While we waited for the service to finish we amused ourselves rearranging the flowers on the graves .
29 Our librarian passed me the disk ready for review , I ran it and nervously waited for the title page .
30 Our librarian passed me the disk ready for review , I ran it and nervously waited for the title page .
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