Example sentences of "wait for him [prep] [art] " 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 | When he arrived at work that morning the result of their labours was waiting for him in a blue folder . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | Any horrors waiting for him in the future were compensated by this moment in time . |
30 | A man came home late from work one night to find his wife sitting waiting for him in the living room . |