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

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1 With this in position he waits for the right moment to switch through the distance shot film of the city , coupled with the live action inlay of the characters .
2 Yet he can still play for his former club while he waits for the clearing period to expire .
3 One night as he waited for a young man to find him a cab , I saw my chance .
4 He waited for a full half an hour by his watch before he opened it .
5 A POLICEMAN was injured in his patrol car yesterday in an accident as he waited for a nuclear weapons convoy to pass through Glasgow , writes Alan Forbes .
6 As Hugh Paddick recalls , he waited for every possible noise that Ken could produce — and it went on and on — and then there was silence .
7 He waited for the other woman to finish what she was saying , and then smiled shyly at Loretta .
8 He waited for the right moment , walked calmly across the road , knelt down , put his neck across the railway line and waited for a loaded van to sever his head .
9 He waited for the inevitable question .
10 A crazed killer plunged a knife into his eye as he waited on a crowded platform .
11 He waited on the cold landing for a long time , nursing his throbbing hand , anticipating the moment when he must face his parents and the serious punishment that was surely due to him .
12 Between takes he waited outside the main hall with a helper to wipe his glasses for him in the close summer heat .
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