Example sentences of "and waited for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ During the first walk we saw a weka , but the second time was much more exciting because we sat on a log and waited for a kiwi to return to its nest . ’ |
| 2 | Again Hassan closed his eyes and waited for a second . |
| 3 | When the show finally ended and the house lights came up , Lucy found herself a backstage corner and waited for a while longer . |
| 4 | To get started on the making of the wine you needed three or four bees which were freely available from friends or neighbours , you filled a jam jar with water to about half an inch from the top , added two desert spoonfuls of sugar , placed the ‘ bees ’ on the water , covered with muslin and waited for a fortnight . |
| 5 | It seemed one hundred years that those poor people looked up at him — at Gabriel the fraud — and waited for a miracle . |
| 6 | She closed the door and waited for a moment , then turned and went into the little bedroom . |
| 7 | She knocked loudly on the kitchen door and waited for a moment , aware of the total silence from within the room . |
| 8 | Then she snuffed out the light , and waited for a moment , getting her owl-vision . |
| 9 | Settling himself in one of the big , shabby armchairs , Tug gazed suspiciously at the television screen and waited for a picture to appear . |
| 10 | And did they , they must have had lean times if they sat around and waited for a boat , one did n't come in some days may be . |
| 11 | I joined the local branch of the I.A.M. and waited for an observer . |
| 12 | Some even made me jump After this we got back on the coach and waited for the ferry . |
| 13 | They all walked around to the back of the coach and waited for the driver to open the boot for them . |
| 14 | I was in a very black and negative mood , I remember , and waited for the trapeze artists to fall and kill themselves , for the female contortionist to twist herself into such a knot of meat that she would never get disentangled . |
| 15 | Once , at Milan airport , we were herded to the gate and corralled in an area almost big enough for half of us , then shifted to a bus with six seats and standing room for forty , in which the one hundred and twenty of us stood and waited for the idiot who always arrives twenty minutes late despite having been called ten times and being the subject of an Interpol missing persons search . |
| 16 | He lay on the narrow bed and waited for the basement gate to bang in the windswept night , until he remembered it was no longer there . |
| 17 | It might not be in strain-on-your-meat-pies Trideocolor or go on all night like America 's bloody buggering 119 channels , but at least some nice bint like his old French teacher came on at ten-thirty and said good night as you drank your bloody buggering Ovaltine and waited for the shipping forecast . |
| 18 | Rostov saw that Arghatun was watching him , and waited for the man to ask how he had known what was going to happen . |
| 19 | She sat down on one of the seats , and waited for the man in the woollen hat to come up , see her , and check . |
| 20 | He sat on the edge of the bed in his hotel room and waited for the phone to be answered . |
| 21 | Rain forgot her headache and waited for the rest . |
| 22 | When the pro-oralist John Howard succeeded Charles Baker at Doncaster upon the latter 's death , Kirk felt he needed to move and waited for the opportunity to do so . |
| 23 | She noticed the tightness of the thin lips , instinct warning her that trouble was at hand , so she leaned back in her chair and waited for the storm to break . |
| 24 | They stood on the step and waited for the taxi with black bands on their arms and suitcases in their hands , forlorn passengers from a wrecked ship , clutching a few haphazardly salvaged possessions and staring in dismay at the choppy sea to which they must commit themselves . |
| 25 | ‘ For Bretonnia and King Louis ! ’ he cried and waited for the response . |
| 26 | As a practical measure , keep a full record of all jobs that you apply for and the responses that you receive to show that you have not simply sat back and waited for the money to roll in . |
| 27 | He listened to a baseball update and waited for the sponsor 's commercial before turning to her . |
| 28 | We stared at the water which was pretty choppy and waited for the Indian to surface but he never did . |
| 29 | We lined up , dispatching practice balls into the shimmering blue yonder with ill-disguised pride and waited for the Master to work his way along , one of us on video duty all the while . |
| 30 | The estimable Anderson spoke half-truths as his friend and fellow bag-carrier , Billy Gunn , now explained as he sat on a green caddies ' bench and waited for the call to duty . |