Example sentences of "[noun] wait for him [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Philip went back to Richard 's rooms in college to wait for him on this night of undreamt-of triumph , to enjoy it with him , to talk it through .
2 And , on his way to meet the Prime Minister , Mr Delors bumped his head on the car waiting for him at Heathrow .
3 He lived for his reunion with Elizabeth ; all that sustained him until then was the daily letter from his new wife waiting for him in his lodgings .
4 Any horrors waiting for him in the future were compensated by this moment in time .
5 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 .
6 But he had no sense that they were being watched , that somewhere between these walls and the windows glinting in the transitory sun there were people waiting for him in anxiety , grief , perhaps in fear .
7 She remembered the time she had returned the coffee she had borrowed from him , and how she had instinctively known there was a woman waiting for him in this very room .
8 When he arrived in South Africa , a crowd was waiting at the dock to greet him , and on later visits to the United States he was besieged by autograph hunters and press photographers waiting for him after readings .
9 And Holly was gone , moving to where a space waited for him beside Poshekhonov .
10 He envied Boxer Sullivan waiting for him in the farmhouse , as like as not with a bottle of beer in front of him or at the very least a cup of tea .
11 After Charlie had finished dressing , he found Sal and Kitty waiting for him by the front door , but he refused to allow them to accompany him to the station , despite their tearful protest .
12 After he opened in Twelfth Night , Arthur was hissed by a crowd of women waiting for him outside the stage door .
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