Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [was/were] wait [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Prince was waiting for him on the terrace of the Hotel Continental , sitting by himself and looking bored . |
| 2 | The priest and the clerk were waiting for us . |
| 3 | Once on the island he lost no time getting to the prison , and within the hour was waiting in the ante-chamber to an interview room , listening to the distant , hollow sound of metal ringing on metal , and footsteps echoing morbidly as men exercised and moved about their token business . |
| 4 | The car was waiting in a side street . |
| 5 | The mail was waiting for us . |
| 6 | And the killer was waiting for Trent 's explanation . |
| 7 | Ranulf the rat-catcher was waiting for him just outside the door , a sleek , well-fed Bonaventure in his hands . |
| 8 | They smiled at each other , and Sara felt as if she was balanced on the brink of some great truth , that the world outside the window was waiting for her too , opening up , spreading out into the darkness . |
| 9 | The Management was waiting for me in the lounge of his magnificent suite . |
| 10 | The Maggot was waiting at the airstrip . |
| 11 | The wench was waiting for me in the street . |
| 12 | The gardener was waiting for them at the front door . |
| 13 | The following morning , as I arrived at work , the watchman was waiting for me . |
| 14 | He thought that the Robemaker was waiting for him to do so ; perhaps somehow to indicate that he would ask for mercy , but he had done nothing . |
| 15 | The shapechanger was waiting in the centre of the castle . |
| 16 | The bogeyman was waiting for him . |
| 17 | The only way to change the Court was to wait for the justices ( of whom there were nine ) either to die or retire , and appoint replacements who would support the New Deal . |
| 18 | It 's as if the name were waiting for the man , and for the novel which will transpersonalize or socialize the murderous concept : ‘ social unsteadiness , as Shatov says ’ and as we read in the Possessed notebooks . |
| 19 | The registrar was waiting down the corridor with the tools of his trade , an exercise book and a fountain pen , and that would be that . |
| 20 | The manager was waiting for her at the desk , deftly fidgeting with a half-stuffed peregrine falcon . |
| 21 | The Inspector was waiting in the dell when the four-man EOD team arrived with their burden of complex equipment . |
| 22 | So up we 'd go and we 'd have to keep the crowd back and the object was to wait for Mary to come out for some more beer which was the pub across the road , and when she did , grab her . |
| 23 | The catapult was waiting for them . |
| 24 | The nation was waiting for an important announcement on the outcome of the talks . |
| 25 | Liessa and the Loremaster were waiting on a raised dais at one end of the meadow . |
| 26 | The steward was waiting for us at the foot of the steps . |
| 27 | As the bus was waiting in Bondgate a lorry carrying scaffolding reversed into the back of the bus . |
| 28 | Outside , the world was waiting for Mr Major 's victory oration and shortly after 1.00 he made for the front door . |
| 29 | The family were waiting for him . |
| 30 | The rest of the party were waiting for us in a courtyard full of yapping dogs ; long , lean greyhounds , black , white and brindled . |