Example sentences of "and waited for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Jay played Satie and waited for when Lucy would stop shaking . |
| 3 | He placed a chocolate under his tongue and waited for it to melt down . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He stood listening as they crossed the hall and waited for the sound of the lift gates closing . |
| 8 | Sister Cooney looked at him with a polite , questioning smile and waited for him to continue or change the subject , as he thought fit . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He kept what he hoped was a bright and intelligent expression on his face and waited for enlightenment . |
| 12 | So I took another — four hundred and thirty this time — and a seat and waited for half an hour . |
| 13 | I crumpled this ticket and waited for the next to be called . |
| 14 | Klepner stepped down from the podium and waited for questions and observations . |
| 15 | Settling himself in one of the big , shabby armchairs , Tug gazed suspiciously at the television screen and waited for a picture to appear . |
| 16 | She fixed her eyes on Mr Hollins 's face and waited for his answer . |
| 17 | I was in a very black and negative mood , I remember , and waited for the trapeze artists to fall and kill themselves , for the female contortionist to twist herself into such a knot of meat that she would never get disentangled . |
| 18 | At the Lock , Marie sat in a hollow in the sand-hills by the canal and waited for the magic to start ; she waited for everything to be made all right . |
| 19 | So , I just pulled some blankets over me and waited for somebody to come . |
| 20 | At the other end , Charity smiled and waited for her listeners to come back to her . |
| 21 | I found myself a nice bit of grass with a backrest against a tree trunk and waited for the show to begin . |
| 22 | She sat on the hard hall-stool beside the telephone , safe in the semi-darkness and waited for Dorothea and her friend Florence Ames who was a nurse , someone who would recognise her condition instantly , who would be on hand should emergency treatment be required , who was trained and capable . |
| 23 | He smile in bewilderment at a succession of ads — the psychoprofile of mankind , he thought — and waited for the programme to begin . |
| 24 | On Monday morning , I stood in a queue at the Diamond , and waited for the Dublin coach . |
| 25 | He stood , kissed Fiona , picked up the box containing his silver bowl and waited for obedience from his sons , his daughter-in-law and his prospective biographer . |
| 26 | Yes , a couple of policemen had turned up , at around two , and waited for Mr Surkov . |
| 27 | And so saying , she pushed the jug of lemonade towards Elisabeth and waited for her to speak . |
| 28 | She considered lying down on the floor , covered with fallen dresses , and waited for their touch on her neck . |
| 29 | Glasgow 's first lightning conductor drank the power of creation and waited for more . |
| 30 | They reached the wall and waited for him to reappear . |