Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [be] wait [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps they 're waiting for the police to lose interest . ’ |
| 2 | She thought , perhaps he 's waiting till the next time we go , perhaps he 's biding his time … |
| 3 | Now I 'm waiting for the police to call , following up a report that there 's some madman loose on the M1 , threatening to shoot other drivers . ’ |
| 4 | Now she was waiting for the food to reach her at the rapidly expanding camp . |
| 5 | And now we are to wait for the next ethnic war to intervene to salve our pitifully insensitive consciences and our failure to shape and conduct an effective policy : a neat one , no complications , allowing intervention with few , possibly no , losses . |
| 6 | Then they were waiting for the fun to start . |
| 7 | Oh , that was when I was waiting in the queue were n't it ? |
| 8 | yeah but he do n't get done , he does n't get done , that is the problem , the kids do n't , I 've written a letter to Mr yesterday , why they were waiting for the games teacher he was hitting Geoffrey and he gave him a dead leg , kneeing him in the leg , he said before drama , he 's got drama tomorrow he says he hates drama because the teacher takes no notice , he said one week Stuart was hitting me with a stick and the teacher just said calm down you boys , and he was being hit with a stick oh no and this I find totally disgusting and I feel like complaining about this , one of the teachers and I do n't know whether its drama yeah I think it was drama and |
| 9 | ‘ No , sir , I do n't know that , but I know why he was waiting at the gate . |