Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] and waited for " in BNC.
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| 1 | We lined up , dispatching practice balls into the shimmering blue yonder with ill-disguised pride and waited for the Master to work his way along , one of us on video duty all the while . |
| 2 | Adam came up into a kneeling position and waited for the bus to start moving . |
| 3 | Sister Cooney looked at him with a polite , questioning smile and waited for him to continue or change the subject , as he thought fit . |
| 4 | He lay on the narrow bed and waited for the basement gate to bang in the windswept night , until he remembered it was no longer there . |
| 5 | Doris smoothed a hand over her rounded knee and waited for the next question . |
| 6 | When the show finally ended and the house lights came up , Lucy found herself a backstage corner and waited for a while longer . |
| 7 | Unlike Trofin , Iliescu did not raise his voice against Ceauşescu , but remained a simple member of the Communist Party and waited for times to change . |
| 8 | In the traditional hunting communities , those who were a burden — because they had become too old to hunt or to follow the family as it trekked to a new hunting ground — took themselves off to an ice-floe or an isolated rock and waited for death . |
| 9 | Before the first series went out we got ourselves an established and admired distributor and waited for the programme sales cash to roll in . |