Example sentences of "[is] wait for [pers pn] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All we can do is wait for it to pass through . |
| 2 | Marie looks at me like she 's waiting for me to say something . |
| 3 | No doubt the whole neighbourhood 's waiting for me to make an honest woman of you . " |
| 4 | I 'm sure she 's waiting for you to look in and say goodnight . ’ |
| 5 | So he 's waiting for you to come up and have a look at it . |
| 6 | so she 's er , she 's waiting for 'em to come to do that , anyway she 's er , somebody rang her did n't they and they asked her if she 'd have a little boy of four months old , Thursdays and Fridays all day and she started this week with him , so I said well Pauline |
| 7 | The work with patients who had the delusion of being watched , and who spoke of the watcher as another person in terms like the following : ‘ He is waiting for me to go now ’ , or ‘ He thinks I should do such and such ’ , had first led Freud to suggest that a part of a person 's ego can keep watch over another part . |
| 8 | This can actually produce those distressing occasions when , for example , a husband and wife are sitting there looking at each other , the dying one trying very hard to get on and die because they understand everyone is waiting for them to do so , and the survivor trapped with their feelings of guilt about wishing their relative would die , whilst at the same time not being able to leave the person 's side in case they miss the moment . |
| 9 | As we turn a corner on to Forsyth Street , a handful of people is waiting for us to arrive . |