Example sentences of "wait [prep] he [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 But , Father , I never meant to kill , when I slipped out alone , and went to wait for him on the path by which I knew he must return .
2 If he was not at the reception hopper grizzleys , it is quite probable that she would wait for him at the entrance to Deep Level .
3 He often went out alone , Italian style , and Jeanne would wait for him in the street after the cafés closed .
4 Never mind , I 'll wait for him in the car . ’
5 I tell you , one night , if we knew he was coming , we would wait for him round the back and pitch him down the falls ! ’
6 I would be waiting for him outside the room and would suggest that he too withdraw a minor claim ; then add a new demand .
7 After he opened in Twelfth Night , Arthur was hissed by a crowd of women waiting for him outside the stage door .
8 Sammy was yapping and jumping up and down , waiting for him at the bottom .
9 Tom was waiting for him at the bottom .
10 Georgi Kirov was waiting for him at the appointed place and time .
11 ‘ Your man 's a faceless pig to most people out on the streets , ’ said Hogan nastily , as Cowley led the way through the swing doors of the Ministry building , and hurried towards his chauffeur driven car , waiting for him at the bottom of the steps .
12 They would be waiting for him at the train 's next scheduled stop , the guard would see to that .
13 Hasan was waiting for him at the top of the stairs , and , as soon as he heard his guardian 's tread , the little boy sat up , sniffed the air and stretched out his hands like a cat , waking after sleep .
14 But they 're waiting for him at the telecottage , a converted school which is due to run out of HIE and BT funding soon and is aiming to become a profitable business , specialising in desk-top publishing , graphic design and printing .
15 Cranston was waiting for him at the small tavern just outside Aldgate in the Portsoken overlooking the stinking city ditch .
16 But he was confronted by an ecstatic welcome from his mother , who was waiting for him on the doorstep .
17 So the next morning she went to Rouen station , and when her son , still wearing a fresh crust of pride and sex , got off the train , she was waiting for him on the platform .
18 Everything had been going so well this time ; leaving Glasgow on Saturday anticipation had been high , Amanda had even been waiting for him on the pavement outside her flat .
19 Beryl Garland was waiting for him on the landing , a lean , bony woman with uncared-for greying hair , a pallid complexion blotched with an unnatural pink , and restless suspicious eyes .
20 The Prince was waiting for him on the terrace of the Hotel Continental , sitting by himself and looking bored .
21 He had n't contacted her since that early-morning call yesterday , and she wondered if he truly expected her to sit here , simply waiting for him like the princess in the tower .
22 Suddenly he had a vision of the Worm , coil upon coil , waiting for him behind the door in the dark .
23 Where the man was , gone or waiting for him behind the next tree , he had no idea .
24 She told me that just across the road there lived what she described as a mantenuta , a kept woman , whose lover visited her every day : she could be seen waiting for him behind the semi-closed shutters .
25 Ranulf and Dame Agatha were waiting for him near the Galilee Gate , the young nun apparently enjoying an account of one of his manservant 's many escapades in London .
26 The driver of the truck sent to meet Charles and his baggage at the railhead south of Arras , had told him that Lord Christopher — Charles did n't ask the surname — was waiting for him in the Officers ' Mess of 2nd Grenadiers .
27 He had left and walked back to the hotel , and by the time he reached it the police were waiting for him in the lobby .
28 Any horrors waiting for him in the future were compensated by this moment in time .
29 A man came home late from work one night to find his wife sitting waiting for him in the living room .
30 Waiting for him in the studio seven people are busy setting up the camera and lights and unwrapping white plaster pillars and an assortment of very beautiful chairs and tables .
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