Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] wait for " in BNC.

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1 What sort of thing — for instance , one of the problems in some areas might be that the buses erm do n't erm that there is an insufficient bus service late in the evening , so a lot of kids hang about waiting for a bus and get into trouble waiting .
2 ‘ There is nothing worse than players hanging around waiting for the next instruction .
3 The professionals sat around waiting for the gentlemen to return before the match was called off .
4 In the 1930's , at a time when many potteries closed down to wait for more favourable conditions to return , the fifth Josiah Wedgwood decided to build a new factory .
5 Our porn challenges the received myths about our love-making , as Gillian Rodgerson pointed out when she argued that lesbians need to produce their own because ‘ then the myth that all lesbian sex is two women lounging around waiting for a man to join them , might finally be exploded . ’
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