Example sentences of "waits for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Geoff , he do n't shout out or anything — he just waits for a bit till they finish their tea and then he shouts out ‘ Enjoy your tea then ’ , and as they look up he pisses a bit more and they go barmy . ’ |
| 2 | WAITS FOR A NOD FROM MICROSOFT |
| 3 | However , it is not difficult to demand a speed of calculation beyond the performance of currently available microcomputers and teaching programs can easily provoke awkward pauses while the class waits for a calculation to be completed . |
| 4 | He waits for a beat , then says : ‘ I freed whooooooo ? ’ |
| 5 | Chief Justice Fortescue awaits us and , as you know , justice waits for no man ! ’ |
| 6 | He awakens in 1992 and , through a tender friendship with a fatherless young boy and his mother ( Jamie Lee Curtis ) , he finally learns that , while time waits for no man , true love waits forever . |
| 7 | But — ‘ time waits for no man ’ and that goes for woman too — bombarded as she is with ever new vogues , ever changing fads and fashions — constantly confronted with remonstrations to be ‘ with it ’ and keep up to date . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A function and compatible string function that reads the next character from the keyboard buffer ( it waits for the character ) . |
| 10 | She stands back , folds her arms , waits for the message to sink in . |
| 11 | The best way to explain Message Queue Interface is to compare it with a standard remote procedure call , where a client sends a request to another machine and waits for the response . |
| 12 | As she grows up she is able to bring up her child and form other relationships , but the split has occurred and the damaged child within her mind waits for the chance of retribution . |
| 13 | As he waits for the computer to load up the programmes , he scans the rolls of newly arrived faxes . |
| 14 | If the victim is not edible the reptile quickly slithers away into hiding , but if it is a suitable prey it simply sits back and waits for the animal 's agonies to cease . |
| 15 | I chat with her while she waits for the tub to fill . |
| 16 | Bored as he waits for the liquid to boil , eyed admiringly by his pint-sized partner , he plays with wooden spills , dipping them into the solution and passing them through the flame beneath . |
| 17 | If requested by WAIT_FLAG , the procedure waits for the module ( if online ) to be transferred . |
| 18 | The interpreter operates at high speed : in simultaneous translation ( strictly speaking , simultaneous interpreting ) , he keeps roughly a sentence behind the speaker ; in consecutive translation ( interpreting ) the speaker waits for the interpreter to translate anything from a morpheme to a whole paragraph at a time . |
| 19 | Not guilty , did n't do it that 's why what gorilla man did sickened me ; no blood well hardly any blood literally a drop , a drip , a fucking pixel on the screen and the only thing slicing into flesh was a needle , tiny and delicate not a chainsaw or an axe or a knife or anything , but it 's that image that idea that old devil meme , I keep dreaming about it , keep having nightmares about it , and I 'm the trapped one , I 'm the man in the leather-and-chrome chair and he 's there with his gorilla face and his squeaky baby voice , explaining to the camera that what he has in this bottle and in this syringe is sperm ; the crazy fucker 's loaded it up with jism man looks like half a fucking milk bottle of the stuff and he 's going to inject it into the little guy 's veins and he ties something round the naked upper arm of the little guy strapped to the chair and pulls it tight and waits for the vein to show while the little guy howls and screams like a child and tries to shake the chair to bits or rip it apart but he 's too well strapped in there no purchase no leverage and then the man in the gorilla mask just does it ; sinks the needle into the little guy 's skin with a bit of blood and empties the whole syringe into him . |
| 20 | In both cases , PI waits for the mail message and reports to the incident log file that it is ‘ Waiting for mail ’ periodically . |
| 21 | I suggest that he waits for the consultation paper and I think that he will then be reassured . |
| 22 | Opening up again , one waits for the combination of engine/timing/mixture to sort itself out and concentrate on producing a modicum of power before lifting off ( again with hardly any swing ) for another go . |
| 23 | In 1898 a visitor noted that the poorest among early Japanese rail travellers were prepared to make long waits for the train : |
| 24 | As his wife , Jeanette applies ointment to loosen the glue , Adrian waits for the moment when he 'll be able to see again . |
| 25 | He taps his pencil up and down as he waits for the finance director to finish . |
| 26 | The occasional sly lift is one thing but I suspect Irish referee Stephen Hilditch will become suspicious when he sees Adolf Malan waving at him from upon high while he waits for the throw . |