Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [noun sg] 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 | You will see groups of them clustered way out beyond the breaking surf waiting for the best waves . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He was on the airport tarmac waiting for me , his Mercedes sports drawn up to the foot of the mobile steps . |
| 9 | The result was that four travellers were now sitting in the airport terminal waiting for the next flight , which was probably full anyway . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Gazzer wasted twenty minutes on the sea front waiting for a bus to take him up as far as the Leisure Centre . |
| 12 | That list is sent in the er assignment pack to the estate agent to wait for your arrival . |
| 13 | ‘ I was in the estate office waiting for you a couple of weeks ago and this firm rang . |
| 14 | As the black chauffeur-driven Jaguar pulled up outside , Coy came into the reception area to wait for his guest . |