Example sentences of "[was/were] wait for " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were to wait for the oyster-fishing season in the Bay of Cancale without giving the boats notice and stop them as they sailed past Barfleur Head … |
| 2 | Those made redundant were to wait for 26 weeks before being entitled to unemployment benefit . |
| 3 | Perhaps if My Lady were to wait for him tonight , there in the dark , he might recite some love poetry … a sonnet he has composed ? ’ |
| 4 | She kept waiting for him to do something , but he hesitated , as if he were waiting for her . |
| 5 | It 's as if the name were waiting for the man , and for the novel which will transpersonalize or socialize the murderous concept : ‘ social unsteadiness , as Shatov says ’ and as we read in the Possessed notebooks . |
| 6 | We were waiting for Alfred to drop he gun , I do n't know how we knew he had one but we knew , and slowly he took it out of his waist and dropped it . |
| 7 | But when they reached the dock and were waiting for the boat to carry them to the camp , Seth snatched the van 's keys , nearly breaking two of Suzy 's fingers in the struggle . |
| 8 | It looked as if they were waiting for somebody , could it be me ? |
| 9 | Swire Sugden and his three chins were waiting for me . |
| 10 | Black clouds were rolling up over the forest to his right , which now looked hostile , as though it were waiting for him to make a false move ; to tall perhaps , so that it could advance and swallow him , like a wild animal . |
| 11 | He had left and walked back to the hotel , and by the time he reached it the police were waiting for him in the lobby . |
| 12 | Cameramen and reporters were waiting for a statement . |
| 13 | They were waiting for a lobster boat 's arrival in expectation of being thrown a free dinner — less work than fishing on their own account ; which about summed up life on the Keys , Trent thought . |
| 14 | In fact they had known all about Crabb 's venture before they arrived at Portsmouth and their frogmen were waiting for him as he approached the cruiser . |
| 15 | ‘ We are told that you were chatting to him , amongst others , while you were waiting for a cab . ’ |
| 16 | Thank you for the notes and letters that were waiting for me when I did arrive home . |
| 17 | ‘ You were waiting for the right person . ’ |
| 18 | This was what they were waiting for . |
| 19 | When I pulled out Callahan and Ted were waiting for me . |
| 20 | I looked at set-backs as if they were predetermined , as if a fixed number of them were waiting for me and once one of them was overcome the number to come decreased . |
| 21 | Boys queued up to take Gloria out , but avoided Deirdre , in case she asked them to help her muck out while they were waiting for Gloria to get her false eyelashes in the right place . |
| 22 | Meanwhile , the watchers by the beacons above Portwrinkle and at Rame were waiting for the fleet to head inshore to Plymouth . |
| 23 | You were waiting for me ; |
| 24 | Two officers of Davout 's staff were waiting for him . |
| 25 | But there was no malice in their interest and I sometimes had the feeling that they were waiting for me to turn round and hand them a bag of toffees , with instructions to share them out fairly and not throw the papers on the floor . |
| 26 | East Hampshire district and Hampshire County Councils were aware of this family , who were waiting for a house to become available . |
| 27 | They were waiting for me to get beaten . |
| 28 | Handed over in 1939 by Its owners In response to an advertisement in The Times , Youth Allyah decided to use it as a transit camp for refugee children who were waiting for permanent hachshara . |
| 29 | Eventually Karl was released and the deportation order lifted on a promise by the RCM that accommodation and a job were waiting for him . |
| 30 | While we were waiting for the chillim to be filled and passed around , Kalchu pointed out a conical heap of stones at the base of a great cedar tree near the edge of the glade . |