Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] wait for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yanto closed his eyes and waited for the inevitable . |
| 2 | The wise veterans nod their heads and wait for the first whistle . |
| 3 | If you 've had to put a plan on ice or wait for an opportune moment to announce a life-expanding decision then you need wait no longer . |
| 4 | The Company did not send expeditions of its own into this area for over a century ; like the East India and the Royal Africa Companies it established trading posts and waited for the local inhabitants to come and trade at them . |
| 5 | But it should do more these days about practical matters — like the tax system and keeping yourself together while you 're out of work and waiting for the next job , for that is fifty percent of what you 'll be doing . |
| 6 | There were no books in the room so all I could do was look out of the window and wait for the quarterly chimes from the Cathedral Clock . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Barton Lynch , sitting out the qualifying rounds and waiting for the main event , recalled the 1988 Billabong , which for the first time had been held at Pipeline . |
| 9 | Zacchaeus gritted his teeth and waited for a great long telling off from Jesus . |
| 10 | It was a bit like sitting very quietly in a forest and waiting for a rare and timid wild animal to come out . |
| 11 | To illustrate , we will reconsider the last example and assume that the individual did not close his position after five days but waited for the last trading day which was the following day . |
| 12 | According to Le Monde of Nov. 22 the number of asylum seekers ( who came especially from eastern Europe ) had risen to 1,700 per month , and a new law to speed the processing of asylum applications stipulated that these should be processed within two months , after which an applicant recognized as a refugee could take up provisional residence while waiting for a definitive decision . |
| 13 | I hurried along keeping close to a wall and waiting for the inevitable mortar burst that would follow in the path of the jeep . |
| 14 | I crumpled this ticket and waited for the next to be called . |
| 15 | Outside , he joined up with Mahmoud and waited for the two women . |
| 16 | Or chortle and wait for the next T-shirt ? |
| 17 | Gathering her courage together , she descended from the gig and waited for the old man to precede her across the porch . |
| 18 | The young composer practises his scales while waiting for a big break . |
| 19 | The fifteen-year-old boy leapt from his bed with escape in mind , but he decided it would be unfair to leave his eleven-year-old brother to face what was to come alone , so he got back into bed and waited for the social workers to come upstairs . |
| 20 | Dad 's Army and waiting for the final push — ( l-r ) Hill , Teague ( obscured ) , Winterbottom , Dooley , Probyn and Ackford ( the only one to have retired so far ) . |
| 21 | Doris smoothed a hand over her rounded knee and waited for the next question . |
| 22 | But much of Operation Gemini is about surveilance , observing known criminals and waiting for the right time to move in and make arrests , of which there have been more than a hundred and twenty since the operation started four weeks ago . |
| 23 | He waited for the right moment , walked calmly across the road , knelt down , put his neck across the railway line and waited for a loaded van to sever his head . |
| 24 | An elderly woman does not want to take the risk , hastily glances at the sharp blades of the door , retreats back to behind the faded white line and waits for the next train . |
| 25 | It felt rather like laying herself in front of an approaching juggernaut and waiting for the inevitable annihilation to follow … |
| 26 | He turned on the shower and waited for the hot water to flow through so that he could adjust the temperature . |
| 27 | If your flow of ideas dries up , return to your central idea and wait for a new thought . |
| 28 | Up to the age of 39 he was one of that sad , nervous and obscure clan of people who scraped a living as a barrister while waiting for a distant relative to die and leave him an independent income . |
| 29 | They are doubly attracted when it is clear to them that any movement will be all one way , and where all they have to do is to bide their time and wait for the inevitable profits . |