Example sentences of "[noun pl] and wait for the [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |