Example sentences of "[verb] wait for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It sounded like a question , but he had never intended to wait for her answer . |
| 2 | Would the Minister like to clarify that now , or would he prefer to wait for his PPS ? |
| 3 | Our return DMU entering the station as we disembarked with the comfortable words from our guard — ‘ No hurry , now — it has to wait for me ! ’ |
| 4 | But perhaps one of the most special attractions at Boscobel lies waiting for you in the fields beyond the garden . |
| 5 | He seemed to wait for his words to sink in , then added , slowly and with emphasis , ‘ Pizarro was a thug . |
| 6 | Hard pitches , dry ball … and referees prepared to wait for it to emerge . |
| 7 | Wait wait waiting for them to say something . |
| 8 | Is it too much to hope that a few other Merseysiders will study his methods , stop waiting for someone else ( usually the Government or the EC ) to bail them out , and demonstrate similar enterprise ? |
| 9 | She told me that just across the road there lived what she described as a mantenuta , a kept woman , whose lover visited her every day : she could be seen waiting for him behind the semi-closed shutters . |
| 10 | Nor had she seen anyone she knew at the airport while she 'd waited for her flight . |
| 11 | Carson had only just put the phone down after trying to get Alison 's number from Enquiries , but as he 'd waited for his call to be taken he 'd thought of her , perhaps contemptuous of his anxiety and annoyed by his persistence , and he 'd hung up without even making his request . |
| 12 | He came out of the Harvester but it would have been nice if he 'd waited for there to be a gap in the traffic . |
| 13 | Her contact had n't said whether Haminh lived alone or not , and without definite information Fox was not about to risk waiting for her inside her room . |
| 14 | I mean waiting for me ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Parr does n't think I stay home knitting waiting for his calls ! ’ |
| 16 | If this is what you 're like when you are anxious I would n't like to wait for you when you 're not . ’ |
| 17 | Because we 've had to wait for them |
| 18 | He 's had to wait for them to come . |
| 19 | You 've had to wait for me I 'm afraid . |
| 20 | I was passing over a hill when Idris drove past me , hooting , and pointing to the valley where he was obviously going to wait for me . |
| 21 | ‘ Are n't you going to wait for me to give you a lift ? ’ |
| 22 | We going to wait for them . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Ai n't we going to wait for him ? ’ |
| 24 | He 's going to wait for us . |
| 25 | Do you think she 's going to wait for you to come back ? |
| 26 | As she turned to wait for me at the end of the path , I felt I was looking at her for the first time : her face paler than her arms , a blonde shadow on her upper lip , no lipstick . |
| 27 | The coldness of his manner had convinced her they would n't speak again , but in the middle of a clearing he had reined in his horse and turned to wait for her . |
| 28 | You 've got to wait for your money have n't you ? |
| 29 | Ah , yo you 've got to wait for your cup of tea erm , they 've sort of gone a bit cold . |
| 30 | that , if you leave and that car comes and signals left , it means that you 've got to wait for it to go in , in case it does n't you know what I mean . |