Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | ‘ I 'll see your mum has a nice cup of tea waiting for you ’ |
| 6 | When we got in there was no tea waiting for us . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ Here 's a horse waiting for ye sir . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | Her face flushed and she turned almost desperately to Marguerite as they sat in the small gold and white salon waiting for their refreshments . |
| 12 | 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 … |
| 13 | And , on his way to meet the Prime Minister , Mr Delors bumped his head on the car waiting for him at Heathrow . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Ward began to explain , about Iris Sunderby and the boat waiting for us in Punta Arenas . |
| 17 | ‘ There 's also a boat waiting for us down at Punta Arenas . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Dot waited for her share of the hot dish . |
| 20 | He wanted to return to England where a bride and a house and a secure civilian future waited for him . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | They are also helpful if they are arranged so that you are paid on or before the date of delivery of your goods or services as compared with the usual 40- to 70-day wait for your cheque . |
| 23 | Alice could see that it was not going to be easy for any of them to admit obligation to Jasper , even though he was being correctly impersonal , sitting somewhat to one side of the scene waiting for their approval , the image of a responsible cadre . |
| 24 | But the trees on their own , it 's like a scene waiting for something happen . |
| 25 | Outside the chamber , Corbett found the captain of the guard waiting for him , a little more relaxed now he realised that Corbett was acceptable to the Queen-Dowager . |
| 26 | Employing a lounge-lizard gait , he swaggered towards me as I stood at the bar waiting for my Coke . |
| 27 | He had an enjoyable job of work waiting for him , and asked for no more than that . |
| 28 | In London , even if a case were delayed because a witness had not presented himself or the judge was ill , there was always plenty of work waiting for her in chambers . |
| 29 | She 'd been glad to find so much work waiting for her when she arrived back in England . |
| 30 | They know when the ship is due in and arrange to have a vehicle waiting for me when we land . ’ |