Example sentences of "[pers pn] wait [prep] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember , I waited for her in the waiting room . |
| 2 | I waited for you at the gate . |
| 3 | Perhaps you have observed me , I am often around , if you are not fixed up at the moment what about me waiting for you at the bus stop tonight ? |
| 4 | Will you wait for me in the car ? ’ |
| 5 | Can you wait for me in the foyer of the nurses ’ home at ten past and we 'll run over to Faye and Bill 's in my car ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Ah , David , ’ said Julia , sighing as she waited for him on the pavement . |
| 7 | ‘ Of course , ’ she replied smilingly , and did n't need him to wait with her by the lift or to see her safely inside . |
| 8 | Yet she was not surprised to find him waiting for her outside the church , apparently absorbed in the design of an iron pineapple on the railings . |
| 9 | How she managed to find a smile for Ivo when she saw him waiting for her in the foyer , she did n't know . |
| 10 | She went upstairs and slung her bikini bottoms in a bag , along with her suntan oil and a towel , and ran downstairs , to find him waiting for her by the front door . |
| 11 | In one week I listened to the English boy singing the praises of my dark colouring and frizzy hair , felt him kiss me on the cheek with obvious pleasure whenever I cooked a meal and when I came in from work , or when we sat watching television together , and found him waiting for me at the end of the road when I was late back for some reason . |
| 12 | After opening nights at Blackpool , she would snub John ; when he waited for her at the front entrance with their car and chauffeur she would deliberately slip out of the Stage Door and go home by tram . |
| 13 | Whenever Jacob was meeting Deirdre outside college hours he waited for her at the bottom of Patrick 's Hill where it joined King Street . |
| 14 | Clare was in the bathroom , and he waited for her at the bottom of the stairs . |
| 15 | ‘ I think I 'll take up teaching permanently , ’ she whispered to Bodie , who held her hand as he waited with her on the landing . |