Example sentences of "[conj] i wait for " in BNC.
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| 1 | There now seemed no need even to ask for help ; my needs were known , so I waited for a cure . |
| 2 | As the Dutchwoman and I waited for the musicians to gather themselves up she commented on the sea symbols of fish and anchor in the nave . |
| 3 | The man at Capital told me to hold on , and I waited for a very long time . |
| 4 | Marius and I waited for twenty minutes and then walked into Mike 's room , only to find him snoring loudly , unconscious . |
| 5 | ‘ He asked me what I could say of you , Callanish , and I waited for your signal knowing that when he was wiser and ready I could tell him . ’ |
| 6 | He closed the curtains and I waited for him to come out to his car . |
| 7 | for two days Signe and I waited for Harvey Newbegin to return . |
| 8 | He lingers over that and I wait for him to ask why I was visiting a Communist state . |
| 9 | ‘ Her father and I wait for the day she grows out of it , but — ’ |
| 10 | far back in my life so I can recall my first piece of actual writing , I have a scrapbook at home and I look at it regularly , it had my first pieces of work in it , I usually drew pictures and then wrote things , my first piece was on A four and I have drawn a table , my mum and myself , I was holding a , I wrote one sentence and it was surprisingly literate this is what I wrote , it is my party and I wait for my friends to come , I did many pieces of work |
| 11 | If I waited for a hundred years , if I devoted my life to fasting and asceticism and scholarship as the Druids do , still it would make no difference . |
| 12 | I know it 's risky — a lot more risky than if I waited for Yukio to finish programming the starpod — but I just need to get away for a while , by myself , and think . |
| 13 | But I wait for him to start it — and then I just finish it off . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I feel cross because I waited for you this morning and you did n't turn up . ‘ |
| 15 | I might eat a bread roll without the butter while I wait for the meal to arrive , and slimline or diet drinks act as a wonderful filler . |
| 16 | Department managers , new checkouts , do all the bits and pieces on , and wanted me to do , while I wait for the shift to come in , and they start at seven . |
| 17 | While I waited for my hamburger to grill , the proprietor offered to photograph me , with my own camera , fondling a chameleon . |
| 18 | A very cold lump formed at the back of my spine while I waited for the rest of it . |
| 19 | She laughed and continued , ‘ Piers has been keeping me entertained while I waited for you . |
| 20 | Hour after hour the legions marched past , walking as much over each others ' bodies as over the ground , while I waited for the queen . |
| 21 | ‘ While I waited for the doctor , worried stiff , a girl arrived , advanced in labour . |
| 22 | ‘ I have to walk to the bus stop , and when I wait for the bus there 's some of them slag me off and they push you about . |
| 23 | Later I found out that a standby wife had got halfway down the aisle before turning back , remorseful at abandoning her husband , leaving one empty seat — my seat , I brooded , as I waited for the next flight . ) |
| 24 | All kinds of thoughts raced through my mind as I waited for the explosion in our midst . |
| 25 | Another three weeks passed as I waited for the reassuring ‘ chit ’ . |
| 26 | I felt frightened as I waited for the mysterious man . |
| 27 | Now , in these quiet moments as I wait for the world about to awake , I find myself going over in my mind again passages from Miss Kenton 's letter . |
| 28 | I take advantage of the silence as I wait for the punch-line to review the facts and fictions of the short story of Dudley Moore 's life . |
| 29 | Duck or diver , it had dived , and , though I waited for long minutes , it did not appear again . |