Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] wait for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He closed his eyes and waited for the pupils to widen . |
| 2 | Yanto closed his eyes and waited for the inevitable . |
| 3 | Again Hassan closed his eyes and waited for a second . |
| 4 | The road serves the village of Barashevo and sometimes the civilians have to stand behind the lines of the guards and wait for the columns of criminals to go by before they can proceed on their way . |
| 5 | The wise veterans nod their heads and wait for the first whistle . |
| 6 | Yesterday West Yorkshire officers advised women to stay in their cars and wait for a patrol if they break down . |
| 7 | Babur stands and waits for them . |
| 8 | The Company did not send expeditions of its own into this area for over a century ; like the East India and the Royal Africa Companies it established trading posts and waited for the local inhabitants to come and trade at them . |
| 9 | Barton Lynch , sitting out the qualifying rounds and waiting for the main event , recalled the 1988 Billabong , which for the first time had been held at Pipeline . |
| 10 | Zacchaeus gritted his teeth and waited for a great long telling off from Jesus . |
| 11 | But she was still meditating for hours and waiting for the voice of the flat to inform her of its favoured colour scheme . |
| 12 | ‘ Before any enactment existed with regard to actions by solicitors for their costs , a solicitor stood in the same position as any other person who has done work for another at his request , and could sue as soon as the work which he was retained to do was finished , without having delivered any signed bill of costs or waiting for any time after the delivery of such a bill . |
| 13 | I sipped from a wineskin , remembering Mathilda 's warm charms and waiting for Sir John to come . |
| 14 | ‘ Get out now , ’ Shamlou ordered the other two terrorists and waited for them before he entered the makeshift cage . |
| 15 | The trouble is my theory 's looking shakier all the time because McDunn 's convinced me it really was all just a smoke-screen : there is no Ares project , never was any Ares project , and Smout in his prison in Baghdad is n't connected to the guys that died ; it was just somebody coming up with a clever conspiracy theory , just a way of getting me to go to remote places and wait for phone calls and deprive me of an alibi while gorilla man did something horrible to somebody else somewhere else . |
| 16 | It 's like you not painting your house for years and waiting for the glass to fall out of the windows before you start … it 's not the way to do things |
| 17 | To illustrate , we will reconsider the last example and assume that the individual did not close his position after five days but waited for the last trading day which was the following day . |
| 18 | His rich client had barely left the salon before Rain lobbed him her questions and waited for his painful answers . |
| 19 | of your block of flats and wait for a sign . |
| 20 | Many so-called estate agents merely place advertisements and wait for the telephone to ring , which is not a successful method , particularly in a poor market like this . ’ |
| 21 | For Jack , time seemed to stand still as he sat at his stepfather 's bedside , gazing down into the inanimate features and waiting for a miracle . |
| 22 | What is impressive about this piece of route-giving is the way in which the speaker provides information in manageable chunks and waits for an acknowledgement after each bit . |
| 23 | In fact , all a person would need to do in the middle of a Darkfall storm would be to remain calm , not touch anything — unless he or she is wearing gloves and wait for the effect to pass . |
| 24 | All we had to do was to patrol up and down the nets , take out the rabbits and wait for daylight . |
| 25 | She was panting , she realised , and hung for a moment on the newel post of the spiral stairs and waited for her heartbeat to calm down . |
| 26 | It was only after they had peered into and groped about in what they felt certain was the right cave but found nothing that they decided to withdraw into the trees and wait for the dawn . |
| 27 | The pioneer of bee research Karl von Frisch recalls ( and we have observed ) instances in which the trained foragers began to anticipate subsequent moves and to wait for the feeder at the presumptive new location . |
| 28 | He curled up and covered his head with his arms and waited for the dark to absorb him . |
| 29 | The initial allocation of franchises in 1954 , then , was absolutely not a matter of the ITA folding its arms and waiting for consortia to spring fully formed before it . |
| 30 | Later , you pull up your pants and wait for the pain to go away . |