Example sentences of "he waited for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The charges arise from an incident last January during which an off duty police officer was allegedly hit with a hammer while he waited for a taxi in Cheltenham . |
| 2 | The charges arise from an incident last January during which an off duty police officer was allegedly hit with a hammer while he waited for a taxi in Cheltenham . |
| 3 | When he reached the workhouse , he waited for a minute to make sure his face was suitably tearful and frightened . |
| 4 | He waited for a minute or two . |
| 5 | While he waited for a response he got up and moved ponderously to the wind-up gramophone housed in a carved oaken cabinet in a cornet of the room . |
| 6 | Having marched from Inverness along the side of Loch Ness he waited for a day in the hope that more pack-horses would turn up , but when none were forthcoming left behind most of his supplies and provisions , though his men were still heavily burdened as they crossed the mountains in search of the enemy ; roads in the Highlands , and local sources of supply , were almost non-existent . |
| 7 | He waited for a fortnight after the heavy snowfall of late November and still nothing appeared to have been said with regard to Sarah 's move to Leeds . |
| 8 | He waited for a clue , a reminiscence of her own Viva , but she was silent . |
| 9 | He waited for a contradiction , but Alexei only nodded . |
| 10 | As he waited for a colleague delivering mail to Mr Reenan 's £300,000 Oxfordshire home , Ron said : ‘ One minute he 's talking about going to Diana , the next he 's gone to a newspaper . |
| 11 | Twenty-seven year old Alan Dobbs from Tredworth in Gloucester collapsed at Schipol airport as he waited for a flight to Briatin . |
| 12 | The 27-year-old , from Hornsey , north London , died in hospital after being attacked as he waited for a train with his brother at Finsbury Park Tube station . |
| 13 | It seemed as if it were coming from a long distance and he waited for a moment , and the moment went into a full minute , and then slowly he opened the door . |
| 14 | He waited for a moment while Mr Hellyer removed another paving stone and added it to the growing pile in the hedge . |
| 15 | He waited for no introduction but launched into his current theme : ‘ It 's amazing ! |
| 16 | He waited for the questions . |
| 17 | As he waited for the executioner , he was dressed in the blue suit that he had worn on his last public appearance . |
| 18 | He waited for the laughter to die down and then , ignoring Mickey Aronson , he leaned his head out of the window , gave his gravelly laugh and confided to the other men : ‘ A bigger ignoramus I never met ; he does n't even know that ships and cars are always female . ’ |
| 19 | He had known it would not satisfy them , and he waited for the rumbles to grow before he said : ‘ Very well . |
| 20 | He waited for the girl 's regular visits to the sick cow just as impatiently as his dog waited to be fed . |
| 21 | He shifted from one foot to the other as he waited for the door to be answered . |
| 22 | As he waited for the noise to die down , Forester looked around the room . |
| 23 | Less than ten yards away from Harry as he waited for the Swindon train , the same man stood examining paperbacks on a bookstall . |
| 24 | ‘ I know you speak Russian , ’ Myeloski said as he waited for the Englishman , ‘ but it would be better if we spoke only English . |
| 25 | The man hesitated , his eyes flicking nervously from side to side as he waited for the magic . |
| 26 | As he waited for the ambulance , the injured man bravely signed autographs for the children . |
| 27 | Reloading the Walther , he waited for the lavatory to flush before going through to help the old man back to bed . |
| 28 | He shivered in shop doorways as he waited for the traffic lights to give him green . |
| 29 | The idea of this power , this energy , came to him as he waited for the traffic lights to change so that he could cross . |
| 30 | He waited for the Doctor to pass in front of him and followed . |