Example sentences of "[subord] i wait " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parents are often held up in traffic so I waited until after 5pm . ’ |
| 2 | There now seemed no need even to ask for help ; my needs were known , so I waited for a cure . |
| 3 | One evening I visited her but found she was out , so I waited on her balcony , smoking a cigar . |
| 4 | I already had permission to search all the surrounding fields , so I waited until the field was harvested before I gave it a thorough going over with my detector . |
| 5 | When I arrived the next day , Holmes was not there , so I waited in his room . |
| 6 | I … was too embarrassed to let Faye know , so I waited until … ’ |
| 7 | Once I waited so long and stayed so late that I gave myself away to Syl , who had called in the usual way at the front door , to be told by my mother that I was in the summer-house and he should go and bring me out and back to the drawing-room where , like normal people , we should converse . |
| 8 | It is better if I wait until the morning when I can see what I am doing . ’ |
| 9 | I snuggle down thinking , how much better if I wait until the Teasmade goes off before announcing my big surprise , but , believe it or not , I fall straight into a deep , dreamless sleep . |
| 10 | If I wait , I am a castle |
| 11 | If I wait they 'll come back , they 'll notice , she thought , and clutched her bag closer , remembering the warnings of the other couple in the hotel regarding pickpockets . |
| 12 | Perhaps they would play ‘ Turn Again Whittington ’ if I waited long enough . |
| 13 | I thought if I waited my lake would grow , and if I waited long enough the walls would walk away and the heron would come to swoop above my lake , milk-white in the moonlight . |
| 14 | I thought if I waited my lake would grow , and if I waited long enough the walls would walk away and the heron would come to swoop above my lake , milk-white in the moonlight . |
| 15 | If I waited for a hundred years , if I devoted my life to fasting and asceticism and scholarship as the Druids do , still it would make no difference . |
| 16 | I know it 's risky — a lot more risky than if I waited for Yukio to finish programming the starpod — but I just need to get away for a while , by myself , and think . |
| 17 | ‘ I feel cross because I waited for you this morning and you did n't turn up . ‘ |
| 18 | I might eat a bread roll without the butter while I wait for the meal to arrive , and slimline or diet drinks act as a wonderful filler . |
| 19 | I feel the need to do something so I buy a dumb little hand-held game and sit playing it while I wait . |
| 20 | While I wait in the darkness , the damn grill drags out its dying spasms like it was Jimmy Cagney on the steps of City Hall . |
| 21 | Department managers , new checkouts , do all the bits and pieces on , and wanted me to do , while I wait for the shift to come in , and they start at seven . |
| 22 | I thought I might die while I waited : might die in the night . |
| 23 | While I waited for my hamburger to grill , the proprietor offered to photograph me , with my own camera , fondling a chameleon . |
| 24 | While I waited , I took the films out of my cameras and put them in the home-made packets . |
| 25 | A very cold lump formed at the back of my spine while I waited for the rest of it . |
| 26 | She laughed and continued , ‘ Piers has been keeping me entertained while I waited for you . |
| 27 | Hour after hour the legions marched past , walking as much over each others ' bodies as over the ground , while I waited for the queen . |
| 28 | ‘ While I waited for the doctor , worried stiff , a girl arrived , advanced in labour . |
| 29 | She fully expected him to ignore her sarcastic question , or , in his delightfully blunt fashion , tell her he was out for a walk , not an idle chinwag , when , to cause her to falter in her stride , ‘ How about — where you 'd been last Thursday while I waited outside your flat for you to come home ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I have to walk to the bus stop , and when I wait for the bus there 's some of them slag me off and they push you about . |