Example sentences of "was wait for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only way to change the Court was to wait for the justices ( of whom there were nine ) either to die or retire , and appoint replacements who would support the New Deal . |
| 2 | Now he too was waiting for a phone call , promised for the afternoon . |
| 3 | Your landlady said you was n't married , that you was waiting for a while . |
| 4 | I was waiting for a friend and I would like to get out of here some time this week . ’ |
| 5 | It dawned on Folly that she was waiting for a tip and , gathering what she could of her wits , she struggled out of bed to delve in her handbag . |
| 6 | She sent them sweets sometimes , and several pairs of red socks she had knitted while she was waiting for a call at the ambulance station , and a photograph of herself in her uniform with a tin hat on . |
| 7 | He was waiting for a couple of soluble aspirin to break up in a glass of water as he stood before the opened mirror-cabinet . |
| 8 | Harvey suggested Morris go on down to the party ahead of him , as he was waiting for a partner : he had no wish to take Rupert Murdoch 's shilling , but he was happy to drink his champagne . |
| 9 | Andrew Dobbs , a building worker from Gloucester , was waiting for a plane back from Holland to Britain when he collapsed at Schipol airport near Amsterdam . |
| 10 | She was waiting for a boat , you understand . |
| 11 | Meanwhile the real Dustin Hoffman was waiting for a role to prove that he would have a post- Graduate career . |
| 12 | The 35-year-old Kurd from Turkey was waiting for a routine appointment in the Croydon Immigration Office in south London when he doused himself with petrol . |
| 13 | She was waiting for an ambulance to take her to St Thomas ' Hospital . |
| 14 | Her family and acquaintance would have been greatly astonished to learn that Camille considered herself prematurely grown-up , and she herself was waiting for the day when she could tame her anger into cold bitterness and frame it into phrases as cutting as tempered steel . |
| 15 | What he said was he was waiting for the government for better |
| 16 | I was that disgusted , I was waiting for the music . |
| 17 | In particular , I was waiting for the hedgehog that made its nest at the end of our garden last autumn to come back to life . |
| 18 | She was waiting for the tide to turn . |
| 19 | It was a moonlight night and from 11pm Ted was waiting for the platelayers ' arrival as their company would liven his long shift . |
| 20 | Trent knew that Mariana was waiting for the hurricane to fall on them . |
| 21 | While she was waiting for the computer to do whatever it had to do , she rested her elbows on the counter with her back to it and the man next to her said in a heavy voice , ‘ Are you an actress ? ’ |
| 22 | Anyway , I was waiting for the Norwich train to come in . ’ |
| 23 | He was waiting for the crowd to disperse from the grave so he could say his own private farewells when a respectable old lady with a blue rinse came up to him and said , ‘ You do n't remember me , do you , I 'm Mrs Flaherty . ’ |
| 24 | I remember excusing this by saying that I was waiting for the police and that nothing should be touched until they had come . |
| 25 | When it was time to leave and I was waiting for the car to take me back to the station for the journey back , I have to confess that I shed a tear or two . |
| 26 | Such longings find expression in the Song of Mary ( Luke 1:46–55 ) , the prophecy of Zechariah ( Luke 1:68–79 ) , among Andrew , Simon Peter , Philip and Nathaniel as disciples of John the Baptist , who were encouraged by their self-effacing master to transfer their allegiance to Christ ( John 1:29–50 ) , by spiritually discerning Pharisees such as Nicodemus ( John 3:1–8 ) , and in the case of Joseph of Arimathea , a member of the Jerusalem Council , who ‘ was waiting for the coming of the Kingdom of God ’ ( Luke 23:50 , 51 ) . |
| 27 | Now she was waiting for the food to reach her at the rapidly expanding camp . |
| 28 | The other had turned and was waiting for the Genoese , standing off on the landward side with her crossbowmen and hackbutters lining her port rail , fore and aft . |
| 29 | It 's like Tracey said with you 're I mean she did her gold star she was waiting for the letter to come through , Tracey . |
| 30 | So he turned round the second he did , and made it look as though he was waiting for the woman he 'd just tried to kill — when they were walking along together … |