Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] wait for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst they rested and fed and waited for the skies to clear , we could enjoy their presence . |
| 2 | ‘ For Bretonnia and King Louis ! ’ he cried and waited for the response . |
| 3 | It was lunchtime so I bought a packet of Jaffa Cakes and more lager , which I drank while waiting for the ferry to start boarding . |
| 4 | Once , at Milan airport , we were herded to the gate and corralled in an area almost big enough for half of us , then shifted to a bus with six seats and standing room for forty , in which the one hundred and twenty of us stood and waited for the idiot who always arrives twenty minutes late despite having been called ten times and being the subject of an Interpol missing persons search . |
| 5 | We sat and waited for the next move , which turned out to be a visit from Younis and Bilal , insisting that Brian was trying to escape . |
| 6 | Then , huddling deep into the eiderdown , she sat and waited for the dawn . |