Example sentences of "[verb] waited [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The warning her anxious mother had impressed on her as they 'd waited for Folly 's plane at Athens airport had obviously been quite correct . |
| 2 | If Panin had had his way , peasants would have waited for land indefinitely . |
| 3 | Mrs Thatcher replied that the government could have waited for inflation to come down . |
| 4 | Youth itself was hardly a disadvantage , in an age when people were ruling kingdoms and leading armies in their teens ; the Stewart kings themselves , all but one beginning his personal rule in his teens , two dead at thirty , and only one surviving beyond the age of forty , could hardly have waited for age and experience to bless their undertakings and achievements . |
| 5 | ‘ We are happy to support local schemes which wo n't worsen our mainstream business , and while hitherto we 've waited for passenger executives or consortiums to come to us with a proposal , we might in the future consider taking more initiative . ’ |
| 6 | In the small cells the insane had waited on stone beds for the divinely inspired dreams which they believed would offer prescriptions for their cure . |
| 7 | Cold with fear , she had waited for take-off , willing it not to happen , knowing it would . |
| 8 | After the chill of excitement , the ungovernable strangeness of the moment , they had waited for retribution , certain it would come . |
| 9 | ‘ I have waited at table every day for the last fifty-four years , ’ my father remarked , his voice perfectly unhurried . |