Example sentences of "he wait [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should he wait for a year , by which time the quarrel between Hindus and Muslims over the disputed Ayodhya mosque will have cooled down ? |
| 2 | He waits for a beat , then says : ‘ I freed whooooooo ? ’ |
| 3 | He waits on a balcony where the stairs divide . |
| 4 | As he waits at a stop-light somewhere out beyond the freightyards he drums his fingers on the steering wheel and gazes in front of him , thinking . |
| 5 | The charges arise from an incident last January during which an off duty police officer was allegedly hit with a hammer while he waited for a taxi in Cheltenham . |
| 6 | The charges arise from an incident last January during which an off duty police officer was allegedly hit with a hammer while he waited for a taxi in Cheltenham . |
| 7 | When he reached the workhouse , he waited for a minute to make sure his face was suitably tearful and frightened . |
| 8 | He waited for a minute or two . |
| 9 | While he waited for a response he got up and moved ponderously to the wind-up gramophone housed in a carved oaken cabinet in a cornet of the room . |
| 10 | Having marched from Inverness along the side of Loch Ness he waited for a day in the hope that more pack-horses would turn up , but when none were forthcoming left behind most of his supplies and provisions , though his men were still heavily burdened as they crossed the mountains in search of the enemy ; roads in the Highlands , and local sources of supply , were almost non-existent . |
| 11 | He waited for a fortnight after the heavy snowfall of late November and still nothing appeared to have been said with regard to Sarah 's move to Leeds . |
| 12 | He waited for a clue , a reminiscence of her own Viva , but she was silent . |
| 13 | He waited for a contradiction , but Alexei only nodded . |
| 14 | As he waited for a colleague delivering mail to Mr Reenan 's £300,000 Oxfordshire home , Ron said : ‘ One minute he 's talking about going to Diana , the next he 's gone to a newspaper . |
| 15 | Twenty-seven year old Alan Dobbs from Tredworth in Gloucester collapsed at Schipol airport as he waited for a flight to Briatin . |
| 16 | The 27-year-old , from Hornsey , north London , died in hospital after being attacked as he waited for a train with his brother at Finsbury Park Tube station . |
| 17 | It seemed as if it were coming from a long distance and he waited for a moment , and the moment went into a full minute , and then slowly he opened the door . |
| 18 | He waited for a moment while Mr Hellyer removed another paving stone and added it to the growing pile in the hedge . |
| 19 | In the small car-park of the Artilleryman 's Friend he waited by a Vauxhall that had been abandoned there ten months ago . |
| 20 | Modigliani was plagued and anxious because of the difficulty of finding models , and when one had been found he waited in a state of tension for fear of being let down . |