Example sentences of "she wait [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She waits patient as a creature |
| 2 | Edna often took Celia down there , carefully going first and waiting while the little girl slid or scrambled down the awkward parts of the cliff into her waiting arms . |
| 3 | I must have been awfully slow , I never got in ahead of her and was always the poor mutt who staggered into the office in the small hours , bleary-eyed and half-dead , while Olive , yawning profusely and clutching her hot water bottle to her bosom , was able to trip down the path to her waiting bed and not surface till about midday the next day . |
| 4 | ‘ Naturally she will stay the night , ’ he murmured , a laughing note in his voice as they waved her mother into the mini-cab to join her waiting friend . |
| 5 | Disturbed , Isa proposed Wilson and Pilade should come with her up to Bellosguardo for the afternoon and , since no protest was made , she hustled the two of them into her waiting carriage and whisked them off at once , leaving Maria with instructions to be there upon their return . |
| 6 | If the lady of the house had swished down the stairs in a crinoline en route to her waiting carriage it would not have seemed out of place . |
| 7 | Her charms increased every day , not only in my eye but in the eyes of all who beheld her , for my mother took the greatest delight in her waiting maid . |