Example sentences of "[be] wait for [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they 're waiting for him at the telecottage , a converted school which is due to run out of HIE and BT funding soon and is aiming to become a profitable business , specialising in desk-top publishing , graphic design and printing . |
| 2 | ‘ They 're waiting for me at the station . ’ |
| 3 | " They 're waiting for me at t'mart ! " |
| 4 | ‘ They 're waiting for you in the alley way at the back of the shop . |
| 5 | It was as if she had been waiting for him for all these years . |
| 6 | Gravier 's wife and child and parents had been waiting for him at Acapulco . |
| 7 | Everything had been going so well this time ; leaving Glasgow on Saturday anticipation had been high , Amanda had even been waiting for him on the pavement outside her flat . |
| 8 | Although the citadel had been rebuilt by the Emperor Gia Long in 1802 , its palaces and temples had been designed and constructed faithfully in the style favoured by China 's Ming emperors and at the entrance to the Dai Noi , the Imperial City itself , Tran Van Hieu had been waiting for him in the shadow of the Ngo Mon , the " Bull Gate " roofed in gold tiles like the Gate of Heavenly Peace in Peking . |
| 9 | By a coincidence the letter had been waiting for her on her dressing-table when she had got in from the pictures the previous night , just after she had been thinking and talking of Hilda . |
| 10 | ‘ Hullo , Pranger , I 've been waiting for you for years . ’ |
| 11 | " I 've been waiting for you for six hours . |
| 12 | We 've all been waiting for you for hours . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I 've been waiting for you for the past three hours , pacing the corridors , wearing out the carpet . |
| 14 | The kennel maid remarked , ‘ There 's something queer about that animal , she has been waiting for you since early this morning . |
| 15 | We must , surely , eventually get to recovery , but we have been waiting for it for a long time . |
| 16 | Truth to tell , we have been waiting for it since Genesis 12 . |
| 17 | I 'm waiting for them to well they 're going to fix it soon . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm a copywriter at Grantham and Marsh — a top London advertising agency , ’ she responded coolly , finding it unnecessary to add that , because of the recession at present affecting the advertising world generally , her job might not be waiting for her on her return ! |
| 19 | For all she knew , Molassi could be waiting for her at the bottom , his knife drawn , standing over the body of Rodomonte . |
| 20 | The photographer would be waiting for her by the exhibition stand in twenty minutes or so . |
| 21 | I 'd get a phone call from his secretary and then a limousine would be waiting for me down the lane . |
| 22 | ‘ No doubt the news will be waiting for me around the garrison by now , ’ he said . |
| 23 | Will Mum and Dad be waiting for me in the hall ? |
| 24 | They would be waiting for him at the train 's next scheduled stop , the guard would see to that . |
| 25 | I would be waiting for him outside the room and would suggest that he too withdraw a minor claim ; then add a new demand . |
| 26 | The Jews would be waiting for him by now . |
| 27 | I 'll be waiting for you on Chesney Green . " |
| 28 | Sergei will be waiting for you at JFK . ’ |
| 29 | Give me but one day , and by night he shall be waiting for you at our house . ’ |
| 30 | If you play your cards right , your job could still be waiting for you after that . ’ |