Example sentences of "and waited [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He arrived a little before twelve and waited below the bridge at the riverside , across from the peeling frontage of the old Thames Road laundry . |
| 2 | You then followed me to the ticket reservation counter , chatted up the girl afterwards , found I 'd booked a Business-Class seat to Brussels , did the same yourself and waited outside the final departure lounge until you saw me boarding . ’ |
| 3 | We stepped into the cold marble hall and waited under a statue of George the Third masquerading as Alexander the Great . |
| 4 | and waited under a camera eye as the door clanked and banged upward to reveal a small covered garage yard . |
| 5 | And dozed and waited through eternity |
| 6 | But the good-night was not as definite as it sounded and Fritz , cowed though he was , knew it and walked with Erika to her bus-stop and waited with her in the cold until the bus did trundle along , and even then he made an attempt to get on it with her , a ploy which , with a deft use of her elbow , Erika foiled , leaving him standing at the bus-stop ; a lonely rejected youth , bowed as with the sorrows of all the world — and yet irresistibly comic . |
| 7 | By the end of September she had lost interest in everything , and waited with dread for the news that Corrie was to be taken back to London . |
| 8 | Received by the king and queen as she made her entrance , she curtsied deeply , and waited with bated breath for what would happen next . |
| 9 | The young people lived in hope and waited with great expectations . |
| 10 | ‘ Who is there ? ’ she called and waited with a feeling of dread . |
| 11 | He and his party were admitted by leave of the Lord Chamberlain and waited with many noblemen , councillors , and gentlemen for the Queen 's appearance . |
| 12 | The aunt gave a little smile , and waited with interest for the bachelor 's answer . |
| 13 | So we stayed where we were and waited with apprehension to see what would happen . |
| 14 | She pressed the button , heard no sound , and waited with her tray held level at shoulder height . |
| 15 | Ianthe realised from his triumphant expression that he had caught her out in a mistake and waited with resignation to hear what it was . |
| 16 | A year later Maggie sat with her husband and waited with rising excitement as the announcement was made to the vast crowds at Wembley . |
| 17 | She accepted it as perhaps quite natural though when he escorted her inside the hotel and waited with her while she got her key . |
| 18 | He had walked over to the lift and waited with her too , she recalled without effort , as Lubor walked to the lift with her and pressed the lift call button . |
| 19 | I bought myself a mug of tea at the counter in order to pay for something for a change , then I sat and waited for Kathleen . |
| 20 | Jay played Satie and waited for when Lucy would stop shaking . |
| 21 | He placed a chocolate under his tongue and waited for it to melt down . |
| 22 | She was panting , she realised , and hung for a moment on the newel post of the spiral stairs and waited for her heartbeat to calm down . |
| 23 | But I am long on stamina and waited for a red-breasted merganser aimlessly doing nothing under the cliff on which lay the dozing duo . |
| 24 | Once , at Milan airport , we were herded to the gate and corralled in an area almost big enough for half of us , then shifted to a bus with six seats and standing room for forty , in which the one hundred and twenty of us stood and waited for the idiot who always arrives twenty minutes late despite having been called ten times and being the subject of an Interpol missing persons search . |
| 25 | He stood listening as they crossed the hall and waited for the sound of the lift gates closing . |
| 26 | Sister Cooney looked at him with a polite , questioning smile and waited for him to continue or change the subject , as he thought fit . |
| 27 | We lined up , dispatching practice balls into the shimmering blue yonder with ill-disguised pride and waited for the Master to work his way along , one of us on video duty all the while . |
| 28 | In Washington , US Administration officials said the soldiers — members of the elite Green Berets — feared the rebels had left booby traps behind and waited for Salvadorean troops to work their way to the sixth floor , on which the soldiers were trapped . |
| 29 | He kept what he hoped was a bright and intelligent expression on his face and waited for enlightenment . |
| 30 | So I took another — four hundred and thirty this time — and a seat and waited for half an hour . |