Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] wait for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three youths armed with Armalite pen-knives waited for the band to unload their gear before threatening them and attempting to drive away with their van . |
| 2 | The simplest method would have been for a French submarine to wait for the Rainbow Warrior somewhere on the high seas and sink it with a torpedo but that posed the problem of what to do with any survivors . |
| 3 | It blended in beautifully with the rubbish bags and empty bottles waiting for the refuse men , but with my luck they 'd probably arrive before I could collect it . |
| 4 | The old Bishop waited for the little murmur of sympathetic approval that ran through the ranks , and they listened just as sympathetically as he rambled on into the usual pious platitudes that ended his eulogy . |
| 5 | These characteristics lead to a generally well-controlled and efficient method of production , whose main disadvantage is the time-delay caused by the queueing effect of individual units waiting for the batch to be completed before moving on to the next operation . |
| 6 | Bored GIs waiting for the war with Iraq to begin whiled away the time with fellow female soldiers . |
| 7 | Bored GIs waiting for the war with Iraq to begin whiled away the time with fellow female soldiers . |
| 8 | On a wild and windy day , with gusts of rain driving into the side of the crematorium , an Anglican priest waited for the next funeral to commence . |
| 9 | There were curious villagers waiting for the wedding to begin in the back seats of the church but they did not look to left or right . |
| 10 | Many of those City supporters have indicated that , given the choice , they would rather have handed out a thrashing to their neighbours and arch-rivals tomorrow night and done their bit to extend Old Trafford 's embarrassing 25-year wait for the championship . |
| 11 | One experienced considerable anxiety waiting for the result of the venous creatine kinase test because there was a family history of Duchenne muscular dystrophy on the maternal father 's side . |
| 12 | Cecilia went down the steps at West Hampstead station and stood on the lefthand platform waiting for the train to come down from Kilburn . |
| 13 | Rain recovered herself but not before Shildon , the only person waiting for the lift , had registered the scene . |
| 14 | That 's all I 've been able to do all afternoon , sit here like bloody Mariana in the moated grange waiting for the telephone to ring . |
| 15 | The twins , David and Michael , had been prowling about in the front garden waiting for the sight of Belinda 's car , and as soon as she stepped out into the driveway and came up the path to the house they raced ahead of her inside to relay the news of her arrival , without even saying hello to her . |
| 16 | There are many big sharks waiting for the wee Minister to announce the terms of these sales . |
| 17 | when when you 're in in the fucking station waiting for the old train you 're on the front of the fucking platform . |
| 18 | ‘ The horses do n't need to be lined up military fashion waiting for the cavalry charge , ’ added Mr Green , who has seen every National live since 1946 . |
| 19 | She had lost precious time waiting for the nurse to leave . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm not joking , we literally , sometimes , used to sit there round a big table waiting for the scripts to come in . |
| 21 | He also played cards with other members of the crew as they sat in their canvas-backed chairs waiting for the cameras to roll . |
| 22 | Fakrid and Jinkwa had spent an anxious hour waiting for the Doctor . |
| 23 | For three long weeks his anxious parents waited for the results of more tests which would confirm whether he had this almost unknown condition , A-T . |
| 24 | Especially at this time of year when all too often the weather is as miserable as a dozen Mancunian pensioners waiting for the 211 to Gorton . |
| 25 | In fact we had a new customer waiting for the certificate in order to give us a job . ’ |
| 26 | O ‘ Connell echoes the structural engineering at the marketplace itself in her gigantic display stand on which 220 vibrant red , moulded jellies are ranked in rows ; a silent audience waiting for the performance to begin . |
| 27 | But he considered this an unforgivable insult to his dignity and marched us both to an underground lavatory on the edge of the square , followed by a curious and gleeful crowd waiting for the extranjeros to get their come-uppance . |
| 28 | But the past year waiting for the auction has been very difficult . |
| 29 | Am I to stick in my flat like bait — the tethered goat waiting for the tiger to pounce ? |