Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] wait for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others realized that it was only a matter of patience to wait for the guaranteed escape which would be provided by the end of the war , and as the war dragged on more and more people became converted to this view . |
| 2 | Over the porch was a wooden pointed hood with scalloped edges , to keep off the rain , presumably from the heads of visitors waiting for the door to be opened . |
| 3 | To her surprise the small room of the post office was full of people waiting for the evening mail . |
| 4 | I looked out of the window and I saw a queue of people waiting for the bus … and so on . |
| 5 | She realised he must be going through some kind of hell waiting for the rime when he could let all his suppressed urges out . |
| 6 | Whole rooms of the Turk 's Head were taken over by bits of fairground waiting for the revival that would send Uncle Titch and Grandad chortling off to the local branch of the Co-op . |
| 7 | They moved in subtly , gently , like hyenas waiting for the carcass . |
| 8 | But there are thousands of children like Kadiatu waiting for the help sponsorship can bring . |
| 9 | Many experts in the auction rooms make it their business to hang out with aristos waiting for the time Uncle Marmaduke 's Van Dyck has to bite the dust , so they are privy to the ‘ who 's just acquired a new mistress whose florist is Cartier ’ chatter . |
| 10 | This was unfortunate for passengers waiting for the 31 bus , as an article in the current issue of the research journal London passenger transport shows . |
| 11 | By now the Arab with my coat would be in Malaga waiting for the boat across to Africa . |
| 12 | Er and they 've now got it stashed away in in Australia waiting for the next exhibition . |
| 13 | He has been stamping his feet impatiently in Gdansk waiting for the call to be Poland 's first non-communist president in more than 40 years . |
| 14 | Nobody sits at home waiting for the next assignment . |
| 15 | The Lawrence 's lie awake at night waiting for the sounds of breaking glass from next door . |
| 16 | We had several conversations at the Concentration area at Southampton waiting for the invasion to get under way . |
| 17 | The British response was to blockade the main French fleet in Brest , and all through the summer the Channel Fleet under Hawke stayed at sea waiting for the French to come out . |