Example sentences of "[noun] wait for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That list is sent in the er assignment pack to the estate agent to wait for your arrival . |
| 2 | Philip went back to Richard 's rooms in college to wait for him on this night of undreamt-of triumph , to enjoy it with him , to talk it through . |
| 3 | I turned back to the harbour to wait for him to go away . |
| 4 | I stirred myself and went upstairs , and crawled under the duvet to wait for him . |
| 5 | Staring out across the car park , where silent , empty cars wait for their owners like patient pets , he ponders the success of the meeting . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'll see your mum has a nice cup of tea waiting for you ’ |
| 7 | When we got in there was no tea waiting for us . |
| 8 | Evan 's angry and embarrassed , Nic 's sullen beyond belief , there 's a rammed , expectant club waiting for them to play , and all they want to do is moan at their manager ( who also works for Nirvana ) back in the States . |
| 9 | ‘ Here 's a horse waiting for ye sir . ’ |
| 10 | Spry , who has spent the duration of the interview waiting for his chicken and pineapple pizza to arrive , flicks through a copy of Vogue Collection . |
| 11 | Ultimately he believes that harmonisation of duty within the European Community must happen , but he is not sitting on the edge of his seat waiting for it : ‘ Politically we understand that uniform EC excise duty will not happen overnight , but alcohol is alcohol and we should be taxing alcohol volume and not the form that it comes in . ’ |
| 12 | She went downstairs to find David waiting for her , dressed in uniform , with his British warm over one arm . |
| 13 | Her face flushed and she turned almost desperately to Marguerite as they sat in the small gold and white salon waiting for their refreshments . |
| 14 | I spent all the next seven months waiting for my case to come up and fighting to keep my daughter . |
| 15 | But the Hall of Light faded , and the impression of great elegance and immense silence and a drifting unfamiliar scent faded , and he was falling forward and there was some kind of cell waiting for him , and this was surely the end of everything , and this was surely all he could ever expect anywhere in the entire world … |
| 16 | And , on his way to meet the Prime Minister , Mr Delors bumped his head on the car waiting for him at Heathrow . |
| 17 | We will fly you both from Heathrow or Manchester to Aberdeen , where you will find a complimentary car waiting for you , and which is yours for the entire weekend . |
| 18 | He thought of Valerie waiting for him . |
| 19 | It can be weekly , fortnightly , monthly , or just occasionally on request but quite often we are finding that a person who 's assessed as needing help weekly , but all that we have got is fortnightly , and all of the time there are clients waiting for us to up the amount of help that we 're giving to them and , very much , it needs to be when it benefits them , and when it fits in with their lives . |
| 20 | If she had told Richard about Harry , and about Maurice 's dubious cargo , he would n't have had to lie in a pool of blood waiting for her own daughter to rescue him . |
| 21 | Ward began to explain , about Iris Sunderby and the boat waiting for us in Punta Arenas . |
| 22 | ‘ There 's also a boat waiting for us down at Punta Arenas . |
| 23 | I can see fields and reservoirs and a motorway service station , and , given the proper magnification , I could probably make out Parish Clerk Weekley still on his roof waiting for his next photocall . |
| 24 | Ellen waited for something to happen , something to change , but nothing happened , nothing changed . |
| 25 | The words fell into the silence and Hari waited for him to continue . |
| 26 | Dot waited for her share of the hot dish . |
| 27 | He wanted to return to England where a bride and a house and a secure civilian future waited for him . |
| 28 | There are plans to give everyone affordable health insurance , allow leave from work for anyone with a sick child or elderly relative to look after , and enforce a seven-day wait for anyone wanting to buy a handgun . |
| 29 | The same autograph-hunting crowds wait for her and the same bland interviewers are at hand to ask the same repetitive questions for TV , radio , newspaper or magazines . |
| 30 | Pepita set down among the crates to wait for her friend and the rum to reach her . |