Example sentences of "he wait for [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 When he first came into the Hampshire team , Greenidge 's natural inclination was to attack every ball , and it was Richards more than anyone who taught him restraint , taught him to wait for the bad ball .
2 Like when a drunken Richard Burton nodded off in the middle of a question ; the time Warren Beatty kept him waiting for an hour-and-a-half … and the day Robert Raging Bull De Niro looked as if he was about to punch him on the nose .
3 With this in position he waits for the right moment to switch through the distance shot film of the city , coupled with the live action inlay of the characters .
4 Yet he can still play for his former club while he waits for the clearing period to expire .
5 One night as he waited for a young man to find him a cab , I saw my chance .
6 He waited for a few seconds , but the noise did not repeat itself .
7 He waited for a few moments to compose himself , then left the court with his arm round his wife , Shirley , to face a large crowd of waiting reporters and cameras .
8 He waited for a full half an hour by his watch before he opened it .
9 A POLICEMAN was injured in his patrol car yesterday in an accident as he waited for a nuclear weapons convoy to pass through Glasgow , writes Alan Forbes .
10 As Hugh Paddick recalls , he waited for every possible noise that Ken could produce — and it went on and on — and then there was silence .
11 He waited for the other woman to finish what she was saying , and then smiled shyly at Loretta .
12 He waited for the first time Phillis was out , and scored the record .
13 He waited for the right moment , walked calmly across the road , knelt down , put his neck across the railway line and waited for a loaded van to sever his head .
14 His lips clamped together and he raised one corner of his thin mouth in a spiteful leer , his large bald head nodding deliberately to and fro while he waited for the younger man 's response .
15 He waited for the inevitable question .
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