Example sentences of "[adv prt] wait for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He thought of sitting down to wait for a break in the storm but that could have been all night so he struggled on downhill , angling a little to the left , until he met the treeline at the bottom of the meadow . |
| 2 | She put a red plastic bowl on the refrigerator floor and sat down to wait for the ice to melt . |
| 3 | He 's he 's a quick nimble defender Speedy was just hanging hanging on waiting for the ball to be played into him and I must confess I did n't really see anything afterwards I mean well if you look at that that does n't seem anything untoward does it ? |
| 4 | The lifeboat then lay off waiting for the tug . |
| 5 | The registration plates said it was only two years old but I stopped believing registration plates about two years before I gave up waiting for the tooth fairy . |
| 6 | We went out to wait for the others . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | But men who 'd probably been men since the age of 14 , when they decided that school was a wank and that , rather than hanging around waiting for a dead-end job , they 'd go out and find their own way to make a living . |
| 9 | After positioning the wad in my cheek I sat around waiting for the hit , feeling smug with my new-found anthropological skills . |
| 10 | But as to advice — well , do n't just sit around waiting for the telephone to ring . |
| 11 | The professionals sat around waiting for the gentlemen to return before the match was called off . |
| 12 | We ca n't stand around waiting for the fingerprints man , he could be hours . ’ |
| 13 | If you just stand around waiting for the enemy to come to you then of course your ladz will get bored , and naturally they 'll start to get a bit fractious , then inevitably they 'll end up failing an Animosity test probably just when you do n't want them to . |
| 14 | 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 . |