Example sentences of "at the [noun sg] wait for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stayed at the villa waiting for the long car . |
| 2 | Finally deciding it was not only pointless , but spineless as well to stand at the door waiting for a man who would n't come , she went up to bed , and surprisingly she fell asleep almost at once , only to be woken some hours later by a violent storm . |
| 3 | Then they were whisked off to the museum , while we stayed at the hotel waiting for news of our flight to Nanking . |
| 4 | Employing a lounge-lizard gait , he swaggered towards me as I stood at the bar waiting for my Coke . |
| 5 | I could n't face sitting at the station waiting for him to turn up : I was damn well going to make him wait for me . |
| 6 | I was called away to the hospital so I left her at the house waiting for Nigel to turn up to collect her . ’ |
| 7 | Standing at the counter waiting for the coffee , he wondered how he could have let it come about , and he felt a stranger to himself . |