Example sentences of "[pron] waited [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | If I waited for a hundred years , if I devoted my life to fasting and asceticism and scholarship as the Druids do , still it would make no difference . |
2 | I waited for a full hour before I caught a glimpse of the sight that I had come to see . |
3 | At Athlone I waited in a large modern station for another train to take me to Ballinasloe . |
4 | Then she waited with a slight frown on her pale white face , as if she might learn something by waiting . |
5 | The woman was attacked in the early hours of Wednesday at an isolated station at Mexborough , South Yorks , as she waited for a late train home . |
6 | Faye had been taken to Labour and Delivery , where she waited in a private room for Dr Greene 's arrival . |
7 | So she waited in a quiet part of the street until people began to stream out of church . |
8 | We waited behind a closed door which opened at the hand of a rugged dark-haired , dark-bearded man in an open white coat who said : ‘ Hi , I 'm Ron Levy . ’ |
9 | Resting gratefully on his pitchfork as they waited for a slow-moving loaded wagon to reach them from the far end of the field , Seb said , ‘ There 'll be another hundred acres to work by the spring . |
10 | They waited in a dignified and orderly manner outside the Children 's Panel offices . |
11 | One night as he waited for a young man to find him a cab , I saw my chance . |
12 | He waited for a few seconds , but the noise did not repeat itself . |
13 | He waited for a few moments to compose himself , then left the court with his arm round his wife , Shirley , to face a large crowd of waiting reporters and cameras . |
14 | He waited for a full half an hour by his watch before he opened it . |
15 | A POLICEMAN was injured in his patrol car yesterday in an accident as he waited for a nuclear weapons convoy to pass through Glasgow , writes Alan Forbes . |
16 | A crazed killer plunged a knife into his eye as he waited on a crowded platform . |