Example sentences of "[was/were] wait [to-vb] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had been looking forward rather to this little drive between East and West Tarbert , but our greatest pleasure was when we stepped safely down at the pier where the little Islay steamer " Fingal " was waiting to carry us to this island of Jura . |
| 2 | His only hope now , he believed , was a direct invasion of England from France and he moved on almost at once to Kinsale , where a French frigate was waiting to take him to Brest . |
| 3 | With a minimum of formalities we were through customs and boarding a pick-up truck for the short drive to the quay where a dory was waiting to take us to ‘ Plancius ’ . |
| 4 | The lifeboat crew took the victim to Tees Dock , where an ambulance was waiting to rush him to Middlesbrough General Hospital . |
| 5 | Here we went to the British Airways Executive Aircraft desk and were taken out to the Moët et Chandon Executive Jet , which was waiting to fly us to Edinburgh . |