Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [noun] wait for " in BNC.
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| 1 | SHE sat on the park bench waiting for Richard , her head turned to look towards the main gate . |
| 2 | The men from the Rathcoole district waited for the order to come for their release , but nothing happened . |
| 3 | Housemartins like tremolo notes on the fence wire wait for heat and the fulmination of flies that lie numbed in crevices all around me . |
| 4 | They are secure in their roles and the young are generally simply marking time until they step into the marriage shoes waiting for them . |
| 5 | You will see groups of them clustered way out beyond the breaking surf waiting for the best waves . |
| 6 | A line of cabs at the taxi rank waited for their drivers to emerge , not as normally from the green cabman 's shelter reeking of cabbage and saveloys , but from the long humped air-raid shelter among the dusty trees . |
| 7 | ‘ It did n't really sink in what I had done until I returned to school on the Monday morning and saw all the television cameras waiting for me at the gates , ’ says Dozzell . |
| 8 | The tablecloth needed no stones to hold it down and all the plastic bags waited for Betty to put them in the master plastic bag she had brought for the purpose . |
| 9 | The volunteer evacuees wait for the cavalry . |
| 10 | The volunteer evacuees wait for the cavalry . |
| 11 | I sat in the restaurant car waiting for breakfast and peered eagerly through steamy windows at an obscure grey landscape , unwilling to miss any part of the new ground that I was covering . |
| 12 | After making her name as a prisoner of war in Tenko ( in which she appeared with Renee Asherson ) , Stephanie has been busy with a second series of the TV comedy Waiting for God about a group of crumblies living in an old folks ' home . |
| 13 | He was on the airport tarmac waiting for me , his Mercedes sports drawn up to the foot of the mobile steps . |
| 14 | The result was that four travellers were now sitting in the airport terminal waiting for the next flight , which was probably full anyway . |
| 15 | But then , instead of making a hasty retreat , they lurked around the airfield buildings to wait for the explosions . |
| 16 | In contrast to the scorpion fish , which flaunts itself , the stonefish and sculpins , which occur throughout the world , are superbly camouflaged , resting on the sea bed waiting for unsuspecting prey to swim past . |
| 17 | Gazzer wasted twenty minutes on the sea front waiting for a bus to take him up as far as the Leisure Centre . |
| 18 | That list is sent in the er assignment pack to the estate agent to wait for your arrival . |
| 19 | ‘ I was in the estate office waiting for you a couple of weeks ago and this firm rang . |
| 20 | As the black chauffeur-driven Jaguar pulled up outside , Coy came into the reception area to wait for his guest . |