Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun sg] wait [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As O'Grady and Kyle went down the 8th another sudden roar came from the expectant crowd waiting round the 11th . |
| 2 | The hour winged past and it seemed no time at all before I was back on the top road waiting in the gathering darkness for the Scarborough bus . |
| 3 | It was sent to the lost-luggage office to wait for its owner . |
| 4 | If the hon. Gentleman waits for a few days , he may be made aware of developments emanating from a source not far from me now which may interest him and which may deal with that point . |
| 5 | The detailed study waits to be written on the way in which developments in the law of certiorati affected the law on natural justice . |
| 6 | Holly and the majority were to travel , the old man waited for another transport to another destination . |
| 7 | The old Bishop waited for the little murmur of sympathetic approval that ran through the ranks , and they listened just as sympathetically as he rambled on into the usual pious platitudes that ended his eulogy . |
| 8 | Once in its launch position , the two-man crew waits for any orders to fire . |
| 9 | The chief inspector waited at the end of the room and tried to siphon off his individual murmur from the swell of coughing and clattering round about . |
| 10 | St Paul expresses this fact by saying that ‘ the created universe waits with eager expectation for God 's sons to be revealed . |
| 11 | The report explodes the myth that men are the bed-hopping rogues while the little woman waits at home . |
| 12 | She was already getting fed up with the hospital , and could n't wait to take her twin boys back to the large nursery waiting for them upstairs in the medieval castle that was now the family home . |
| 13 | That evening , while the Prime Minister waited at No. 10 for a telegram from the New York bankers in reply to the Cabinet 's inquiry , the King had a single guest to dine . |
| 14 | The advantages of being able to run baits out to any spot within range of your radio signal are obvious even to an objector and to sit on a reservoir bank as electro-man catches pike on free-lined herrings at 200 yards , whilst my weapon hangs limp in the still air waiting for a stiff breeze has been frustrating . |
| 15 | Controversy follows the rugby men around of course , but for the fans it 's carnival time , while the international team wait for England . |
| 16 | All Virginia 's feminist sympathies screamed outrage at the casual order to wait on her . |
| 17 | Corbett glimpsed the arbalest in the midget 's hand and , in the poor light , the shimmering sharpness of the lethal bolt waiting to be fired . |
| 18 | The late-night attack happened as the 25-year-old woman waited for help in her car on the M62 between Tingley and Lofthouse , near Leeds . |
| 19 | The new pages of the meteoritic book waiting to be read in Paris and Milton Keynes may provide such evidence . |
| 20 | Yesterday members of the close-knit community huddled on the rain-lashed quay waiting for news of skipper Paul Masters , 24 , his cousin David Masters , 24 , and young crew member Peter Hope . |
| 21 | Thus the defensive fighter waits for you to attack and then counters as your technique is concluding . |
| 22 | Cecilia went down the steps at West Hampstead station and stood on the lefthand platform waiting for the train to come down from Kilburn . |
| 23 | The twins , David and Michael , had been prowling about in the front garden waiting for the sight of Belinda 's car , and as soon as she stepped out into the driveway and came up the path to the house they raced ahead of her inside to relay the news of her arrival , without even saying hello to her . |
| 24 | That 's all I 've been able to do all afternoon , sit here like bloody Mariana in the moated grange waiting for the telephone to ring . |
| 25 | Rain recovered herself but not before Shildon , the only person waiting for the lift , had registered the scene . |
| 26 | Twice Cantona stole into position at the far post waiting in vain for crosses . |
| 27 | Here it 's the condemned man waiting to ‘ go shuffling out of life/just to hide in death a while ’ . |
| 28 | when when you 're in in the fucking station waiting for the old train you 're on the front of the fucking platform . |
| 29 | The young man waited for Carter 's return to prison life , knowing that once he was back in control there would be a suitably messy reply . |
| 30 | He told the young man to wait in the hall . |