Example sentences of "[pron] waited for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I waited for a full hour before I caught a glimpse of the sight that I had come to see . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | One night as he waited for a young man to find him a cab , I saw my chance . |
| 5 | He waited for a full half an hour by his watch before he opened it . |
| 6 | 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 . |