Example sentences of "wait at the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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No	Sentence
1	‘ Feed him cotton wool sandwiches and wait at the other end ! ’ said the vet .
2	Rachel and I wait at the little barrier in the station terminus , and again I think what an ordinary pair of holidaymakers we must look — too tatty to be honeymooners , but the same kind of contentment together .
3	Thus there are often traffic jams for several minutes on Wainfleet 's main through road , while motorists wait at the level crossing .
4	There had been a cancellation so two seats would be available on a Tarom flight five days hence with a Romanian Automobile Club hire car waiting at the other end .
5	Cambridge were left high and dry for a time this afternoon as Oxford followed in the footsteps of many a champion boxer and left the opposition waiting at the official weigh-in .
6	A score of older cadets were waiting at the far end behind what was evidently a transparent plascrystal wall .
7	In the last month before war was declared , families who were still on the waiting list for places on the Kindertransporte , but knew they had little chance of moving up the queue , took to waiting at the main rail stations , watching and hoping .
8	Also , he had kept her waiting at the Old Mitre and she would have preferred him to say everything then , or telephone now , rather than trail after her .
9	But there was plenty of time , and they had to wait at the other end of the tunnel .
10	She unhooked her cloak collar as we had to wait at the outer door of Marcus whilst two porters wheeled out an empty accident trolley .
11	As she waited at the only traffic lights in the main street , her attention was caught as a man came out from a hardware shop .
12	They ran back to the house and Endill waited at the front door while his mother went to see who or what it was .
13	A tall man waited at the stable entrance of the lodging house where Lucille Castineau had rented two attic rooms .

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