Example sentences of "wait [prep] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | They hardly expected to see the BMW waiting for them at the dockside , but after they had parked the car and got the ticket , they began to look at their watches , and each other . |
| 32 | To Sophie 's and Helen 's surprise , Ian Woodall , looking anxious and drawn , was waiting for them at the hospital . |
| 33 | I caught up with them about 3.30pm in Jackson Bridge where they were finishing a hymn , and possibly a silent prayer , before they marched back up the steep winding hill to Hepworth where a free tea was waiting for them in the school . |
| 34 | They found Carrington and Grant waiting for them in the saloon . |
| 35 | There were police waiting for them in the van and they got another good beating . |
| 36 | They went downstairs and the old lady was waiting for them in the hall . |
| 37 | They were waiting for them inside the restaurant , which turned out to be a smallish place that somehow managed to achieve an atmosphere of casualness and intimacy at the same time . |
| 38 | In one week I listened to the English boy singing the praises of my dark colouring and frizzy hair , felt him kiss me on the cheek with obvious pleasure whenever I cooked a meal and when I came in from work , or when we sat watching television together , and found him waiting for me at the end of the road when I was late back for some reason . |
| 39 | I think about Mr Jackson and I get a sort of uncomfortable feeling when I remember he was waiting for me at the house and I did n't come back . |
| 40 | ‘ 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 . |
| 41 | When I got back to the attic , Jean-Claude was waiting for me at the top of the stairs . |
| 42 | ‘ They 're waiting for me at the station . ’ |
| 43 | The ticket 's waiting for me at the desk . |
| 44 | When I went into town to order my new clothes , Mr Pumblechook was waiting for me at the door of his shop . |
| 45 | This time he was waiting for me at the table . |
| 46 | Jekyll 's servant had received by the same post a letter similar to mine , and he was waiting for me with the locksmith . |
| 47 | The hill that was waiting for me across the next two miles of nothingness was typical of those I had climbed that day — no more than a hundred feet high , with a gradual slope . |
| 48 | I 'd get a phone call from his secretary and then a limousine would be waiting for me down the lane . |
| 49 | Miss Kenton was still waiting for me in the hallway and we ascended through the house in silence . |
| 50 | Will Mum and Dad be waiting for me in the hall ? |
| 51 | The Management was waiting for me in the lounge of his magnificent suite . |
| 52 | The wench was waiting for me in the street . |
| 53 | There were a couple of men waiting for me in the car park tonight , said they had a message for me from a ‘ friend ’ that ran along the lines of warning me to keep my nose out of things that did n't concern me . ’ |
| 54 | ‘ No doubt the news will be waiting for me around the garrison by now , ’ he said . |
| 55 | Waiting for me behind the counter was Katrina . |
| 56 | Maggie burst into tears at the sight of the house and the small familiar crowd waiting for her outside the wooden gate of the garden . |
| 57 | Yet she was not surprised to find him waiting for her outside the church , apparently absorbed in the design of an iron pineapple on the railings . |
| 58 | Why were some men waiting for her on the night she died ? |
| 59 | At some unconscious level that was exactly what she had expected six months earlier — to step off the plane and see the man of her dreams waiting for her on the tarmac . |
| 60 | Jonadab was waiting for her at the stair bottom . |