Example sentences of "in the [noun sg] wait for " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Miss Haines , as Clara suddenly realized , with a curious tremor of conviction , had actually been hanging around in the corridor waiting for her to emerge . |
| 2 | Another thing : not enough men would be in the middle waiting for crosses when they came and like I said before the crosses were mostly aiming for heads — or for Deano 's head . |
| 3 | The thunder was continuous and the heavens opened up so , nowhere to go , we were huddled in the tent waiting for the river to rise . |
| 4 | I stood in the kitchen waiting for the water to heat up with a distinct feeling of eco-smugness . |
| 5 | Computerisation allows doctors to expand their largely reactive role of sitting in the surgery waiting for ill patients to come to them . |
| 6 | She ordered sandwiches and coffee and settled down in the lounge to wait for him . |
| 7 | The horse was rather surprised , and stood in the road waiting for her to pick herself up . |
| 8 | He says it 's long and slimy and hides in the water waiting for anyone who might fall in . ’ |
| 9 | The Armenian Economy Ministry , according to a June 12 report from the news agency Postfactum , believed that there were 42 active " financial groups " in the republic waiting for privatization to begin . |
| 10 | Her car was still in the garage waiting for a visit from the insurance assessor before work could start on it , but she did n't need it to get into town . |
| 11 | ‘ I went to sit in the library to wait for Mummy and I started to cry . ’ |
| 12 | While she changed , she could hear the others laughing and singing and when she emerged from the changing-room she found them all in the foyer waiting for her to emerge . |
| 13 | Fifteen minutes later McKillop was in the street waiting for a bus that would take him to Westminster where he could get a connection down to Kennington . |
| 14 | One cottage I stayed in without electricity or water saw 11 of us standing eagerly over a one-ring Calor gas burner in the morning waiting for a kettle to boil for coffee , when one of our party came into the kitchen , picked up the kettle and took it into the bathroom to wash his face . |
| 15 | Benjamin 's ‘ party of knaves ’ had re-established themselves in the Tower waiting for spring to dry out the roads so they could travel north . |
| 16 | We had such happy family holidays in the drizzle waiting for the sun to try and come out that it seemed churlish to spoil things with science . |