Example sentences of "[pers pn] wait [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , I phoned them up , and I 'd been badgering them , and they told me to wait for a further communication . |
| 2 | One longs to give a copy each to ten assorted bus company managers ( leavened with the occasional politician and academic ) and make them wait on a cold dark wet night in a vandalised bus shelter for an unpredictable R registered banger . |
| 3 | Rachel and I wait at the little barrier in the station terminus , and again I think what an ordinary pair of holidaymakers we must look — too tatty to be honeymooners , but the same kind of contentment together . |
| 4 | I wait for the inevitable question . |
| 5 | Ludo and I wait between the two pairs , watching them . |
| 6 | If I waited for a hundred years , if I devoted my life to fasting and asceticism and scholarship as the Druids do , still it would make no difference . |
| 7 | I waited for a full hour before I caught a glimpse of the sight that I had come to see . |
| 8 | I felt frightened as I waited for the mysterious man . |
| 9 | Another three weeks passed as I waited for the reassuring ‘ chit ’ . |
| 10 | Later I found out that a standby wife had got halfway down the aisle before turning back , remorseful at abandoning her husband , leaving one empty seat — my seat , I brooded , as I waited for the next flight . ) |
| 11 | At Athlone I waited in a large modern station for another train to take me to Ballinasloe . |
| 12 | I waited by the eighteenth green with thousands of spectators to see the denouement , and my money was mentally on the dashing Swede . |
| 13 | Do n't you ever speak to me like that again , I have n't , I rang , no , no , I the landlord either , I waited until the next morning . |
| 14 | ‘ I gathered you all wanted to meet me , so it seemed a bit unkind to make you wait until the following morning … ’ |
| 15 | The price you see is the price you pay — even if you wait for a late booking ! |
| 16 | ‘ If you 're going to be difficult , ’ Adam said , ‘ I suggest that either you wait for a hundred years or agree to reduce the amount payable , by half . ’ |
| 17 | If you wait for a few minutes , and it really can be that long , you might be surprised to discover that Windows un-freezes of its own accord . |
| 18 | You wait for the other side to post their part back to you on your client 's purchase , thereby leaving you with the initiative to complete the exchange procedure on your client 's sale , and this you should do immediately . |
| 19 | A catapult lives with you until the last moment ; it stays tensed in your hands , breathing with you , moving with you , ready to leap , ready to sing and jerk , and leaving you in that dramatic pose , arms and hands outstretched while you wait for the dark curve of the ball in its flight to find its target , that delicious thud . |
| 20 | Erm I think bro broadly , certainly by the time you 've got through to the later spring th th there is y yes I mean i in a sense there are sort of three areas if you like but , but very broadly the areas which had not been taken over yet i is very much a slower process of consolidation and then you wait for the next rule . |
| 21 | ‘ Perhaps an escort , ’ hinted Isabel , worried that Matilda was going to suggest she wait for the good father 's return . |
| 22 | As she waited at the only traffic lights in the main street , her attention was caught as a man came out from a hardware shop . |
| 23 | Then she waited with a slight frown on her pale white face , as if she might learn something by waiting . |
| 24 | The woman was attacked in the early hours of Wednesday at an isolated station at Mexborough , South Yorks , as she waited for a late train home . |
| 25 | Mungo admired Emily 's patience as she waited for the right moment to mention his proposition . |
| 26 | She now rubbed her hand over the oilcloth as she waited for the next question . |
| 27 | Twice she was in the very act , loaded fork in her hand , when her breathing quickened , her mouth drew into a forbidding shiver of disgust , and she waited for the next signal to come round . |
| 28 | His lips twisted and she waited for the inevitable cynical response , but surprisingly it did n't come . |
| 29 | She waited for the unpleasant tingling on the back of her neck to go away and bother somebody else . |
| 30 | Carefully she waited until the right moment . |