Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] wait for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's he 's a quick nimble defender Speedy was just hanging hanging on waiting for the ball to be played into him and I must confess I did n't really see anything afterwards I mean well if you look at that that does n't seem anything untoward does it ? |
| 2 | Any decent sized salmon would be bound to show itself as it moved around waiting for the next tide to free it . |
| 3 | If you just stand around waiting for the enemy to come to you then of course your ladz will get bored , and naturally they 'll start to get a bit fractious , then inevitably they 'll end up failing an Animosity test probably just when you do n't want them to . |
| 4 | Putting the thoughts out of his head , he settled back to wait for the next people who could keep the Americans busy . |
| 5 | ‘ There is nothing worse than players hanging around waiting for the next instruction . |
| 6 | The lifeboat then lay off waiting for the tug . |
| 7 | We went out to wait for the others . |
| 8 | We ca n't stand around waiting for the fingerprints man , he could be hours . ’ |
| 9 | The registration plates said it was only two years old but I stopped believing registration plates about two years before I gave up waiting for the tooth fairy . |
| 10 | You 're in danger of every time you 're praising that person , they 're going to be sitting back waiting for the straight away , so you could n't , if you go up to somebody and they 've generally done a superb job and you ca n't fault him , and he knows he 's done a really good job , but he 's just sitting back waiting for you to way what , what you 've done wrong . |
| 11 | Look at the source : Of course , BP and the rest of the plastics industry have n't been sitting around waiting for the environmental debate on waste to start . |
| 12 | But as to advice — well , do n't just sit around waiting for the telephone to ring . |
| 13 | She put a red plastic bowl on the refrigerator floor and sat down to wait for the ice to melt . |
| 14 | Furious , she sat down to wait for the next vehicle . |
| 15 | When he played the old rustic Arthur Fallowfield , radio audiences all over Britain — to say nothing of those listening to the BBC 's various overseas services — sat up waiting for the virtually immortal words , ‘ the answer lies in the soil ’ . |
| 16 | The professionals sat around waiting for the gentlemen to return before the match was called off . |
| 17 | After positioning the wad in my cheek I sat around waiting for the hit , feeling smug with my new-found anthropological skills . |