Example sentences of "waited [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Ah , David , ’ said Julia , sighing as she waited for him on the pavement . |
2 | I waited and waited for him at the points and eventually met him about three or four o'clock in the morning for the first time . |
3 | Joseph hung back walking slowly as the others moved on again , and his mother , noticing his discomfited expression , waited for him at the side of the track . |
4 | Then there was nothing again but the darkness ; the darkness that he knew waited for him at the foot of the mountain . |
5 | Gareth Morgan , his deputy and confidante , waited for him in the large office with windows overlooking the City . |
6 | It is a matter of dispute how they parted ; friends of Hayward suggest that Eliot left Carlyle Mansions on the morning of the marriage , leaving only a note of explanation behind — or , even , that he told Hayward as the taxi waited for him in the street below . |
7 | After she had signed in , Brian Everthorpe directed her to the section of the car park reserved for visitors , and waited for her at the entrance to the Administration Block . |
8 | After opening nights at Blackpool , she would snub John ; when he waited for her at the front entrance with their car and chauffeur she would deliberately slip out of the Stage Door and go home by tram . |
9 | Whenever Jacob was meeting Deirdre outside college hours he waited for her at the bottom of Patrick 's Hill where it joined King Street . |
10 | Clare was in the bathroom , and he waited for her at the bottom of the stairs . |
11 | I remember , I waited for her in the waiting room . |
12 | Her nerve almost failed her when , more than three hours later , they came into the city along Karl Marx Prospekt and made the turn towards Arsenal Street , where number nine waited for her like the transit house to a hundred-year-old hell . |
13 | I waited for you at the gate . |
14 | ‘ I think I 'll take up teaching permanently , ’ she whispered to Bodie , who held her hand as he waited with her on the landing . |
15 | But the good-night was not as definite as it sounded and Fritz , cowed though he was , knew it and walked with Erika to her bus-stop and waited with her in the cold until the bus did trundle along , and even then he made an attempt to get on it with her , a ploy which , with a deft use of her elbow , Erika foiled , leaving him standing at the bus-stop ; a lonely rejected youth , bowed as with the sorrows of all the world — and yet irresistibly comic . |