Example sentences of "and wait [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stephen liked to stand and watch , to imagine the druidical forms as they must have been , going about their ritual , and to wait in silence and stillness for the sun to perform his precise function . |
| 2 | Do you just sit around and wait for inspiration ? ’ |
| 3 | From here she could watch and wait for take-off , count the bombers out , bless them on their way . |
| 4 | Yet the alternative , to sit and wait for help that might never arrive , was terrifying . |
| 5 | and wait for absorption . |
| 6 | But this issue has not been the subject of legislation , nor previously been considered by this court or the House of Lords , and in such circumstances the alternatives are either to dismiss the appeal despite the relevance of article 10 and wait for Parliament to reconsider the state of the law ; or , as the courts have from time to time demonstrated their ability and willingness to do , venture into relatively unchartered waters and declare the present state of the law . |
| 7 | If you can not be sure of handling the glider safely , turn it out of the wind , hold the wing down and wait for help . |
| 8 | You could consider the wide variety of third-party alternatives or kill two birds with one stone and wait for MS-DOS 6 . |
| 9 | Soon , Rob would take S-Sugar on to the runway and wait for clearance from the control tower . |
| 10 | I turn on my side , make a parallel zigzag , and wait for sleep . |
| 11 | They have heavy bodies , and sit and wait for prey to come to them , striking with unerring accuracy and speed at any small mammal as it passes . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ There 's nothing we can do but hang on here and wait for morning , ’ Lawler said to his wife , helping her onto her feet . |
| 14 | Shall we proceed , and wait for revelation ? ’ |
| 15 | The Corporal said , ‘ We will have to lie low and wait for dark . |
| 16 | It is not part of our code to stand helpless and alone and wait for death . |
| 17 | All we had to do was to patrol up and down the nets , take out the rabbits and wait for daylight . |
| 18 | If there is a doubt put it in pencil and wait for confirmation from your own experience or from the reports of others . |
| 19 | Stand up and wait for silence . |
| 20 | Visitors for the school or Matthew could press either of the little buttons marked Inquiries above their names and step right in and wait for attention . |
| 21 | We save our energies and wait for pneumonia to get him first , is that it ? ’ |
| 22 | Talk about jumping the gun — the machines are n't even announced for another three weeks , but Hopkinton , Massachusetts-based Clearpoint Research Corp reckons that there are potential users out there that already realise they ordered too little memory for the things and want to be prepared by having add-on memory ready and waiting on site . |
| 23 | My wife , Jane , and close friends were all at Manchester Airport to meet me on my return from France and waiting at home were my mother , more friends , half of Sheffield United FC and Willie Thorne , whose friendship has given me so much confidence . |
| 24 | It was not a simple matter of carrying out fieldwork , thinking about the results , publishing them , and waiting for peer review to ensure the next research grant . |
| 25 | … once the CNAA even began to lend its support to this development , there literally was a kind of explosion , and plainly institutions had been looking and waiting for validation in this field … |
| 26 | What can you gain from sitting behind a desk making and waiting for telephone calls , going from game to game watching players you already know about ? ’ |
| 27 | Part of the problem has been the software , which has been looking for a decent hardware platform and waiting for support from a mainstream operating system vendor . |
| 28 | The Danish butter freighter was in dock , and along the river wall laden barges were moored and waiting for daylight . |
| 29 | ‘ The speed with which some of the incidents flared up suggests , in fact , that the kids were not sitting indoors , but that they were already out there on the streets — often bored , resentful and waiting for trouble ’ ( ibid.:46 ) . |
| 30 | Hermione Lee pinpoints what I feel about this novel — that although its subject is depression and waiting for death , it does not feel gloomy because of its own formal delight , its interest in language , including the contrasted languages of the sophisticated ‘ writer ’ , the Professor , a historian of the European exploration of America , and Tom Outland , the indigenous traveller , discovering the primeval inhabitants , but teaching himself to read Virgil , and thus exploring in the other direction . |