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 .

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