Example sentences of "and wait for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With Balor loping along at their side , they could not discuss whether Fenella would be all right , or speculate how soon she and Caspar would catch them up , or even try to spy out a place to stop and wait for them . |
| 2 | Framed her own mind in Adam 's will and learnt to sit patiently and wait for whatever happened next . |
| 3 | Perhaps she would say : ‘ Jack is not at home , but you are welcome to come in and wait for him . |
| 4 | I 'll go down and wait for him , so he wo n't have to ring " |
| 5 | I could sit back and wait for him to break through media censorship . |
| 6 | I would have enjoyed them even more had I not been about to faint every ten yards , but I was in far too bad a mood to tell my colleagues to slow down and wait for me . |
| 7 | Look , you 'll have to sit here and wait for me , all right ? |
| 8 | Did you think I would sit here and wait for you to kill me . |
| 9 | One way or another , you place your order , but the wise gardener does not just sit and wait for it to come . |
| 10 | The 1910 dispute , which is particularly well documented in the press as well as in manuscript sources , enables us to see that on this occasion at least , the women did not stand by and wait for it to be resolved over their heads . |
| 11 | If you have a very complex sort or lots of calculation that add up values from lots of records , expect to wait and wait for your report . |
| 12 | Go home to your hut on the lonely shore and wait for what fortune will come to you . " |
| 13 | Just try our ideas , all costing less than £1.50 per person — and wait for them to ask for more . |
| 14 | If I take it to the police the matter will be dealt with much sooner than if we leave it where it is and wait for them to call here . |
| 15 | Er try and relax and wait for them . |
| 16 | You go up round then you come down yes you can through but people queue and wait for one on the top . |
| 17 | ( Lift glass in air and wait for everybody to stand and raise glasses . ) |
| 18 | Get out your begging bowls and wait for somebody to sort out this mess . ’ |
| 19 | They were ordered by Stirling to stay put and wait for him , as he was on his way back to the desert . |
| 20 | I let silence be my reply and wait for him to continue . |
| 21 | Quinn told Sam to sit in the window of a café down the street and wait for him . |
| 22 | He walked so slowly that Piper had to stop every few seconds and wait for him to catch up . |
| 23 | It had been agreed that Mary-Claude and the children would make their way independently to Spain , and wait for him to join them there . |
| 24 | She had only to sit back with perfect composure — something at which she was adept — and wait for him to find his way through the necessary preliminaries to the real business of this meeting . |
| 25 | Loretta had assumed that she would have to leave a message for Jamie with some college functionary , and wait for him to ring back . |
| 26 | I think Leeds function as a better team without him playing , when he does play I get the feeling that the other players sit back and wait for him to produce the move that will lead to the scores . |
| 27 | And here she 's telling Ruth , now what you 've got ta do , she 's she 's got him , she 's got her introduced to Boaz and she tells him it 's a strange custom , one that 's perhaps even stranger in our eyes today but there er after the party , the great harvest supper she 's , the the they lie down in the barn together , they all just , they 're tired it 's , it 's , the party 's gone on into the wee hours of the morning , and there they just , they do n't bother going home , they lie down there in the barn together all of them and she says to Ruth what you must do according to the custom is , you go and you lie at the feet of Boaz and wait , just wait , and wait for him to respond to you . |
| 28 | I just hang round the entrance and wait for her . |
| 29 | I do like she says , and sit there with the damp towel round my neck and wait for her to come back . |
| 30 | And now I sit here , in Fotheringhay Castle , and wait for her to answer . |