Example sentences of "waited for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I took down a few reference numbers from a noticeboard headed ‘ Cleaning ’ and then waited for my turn . |
| 2 | I bought myself a mug of tea at the counter in order to pay for something for a change , then I sat and waited for Kathleen . |
| 3 | Jay played Satie and waited for when Lucy would stop shaking . |
| 4 | Waited for some kind of sign , a handclasp , a chaste kiss on the cheek , some sign that Lucy knew the meaning of this time and space . |
| 5 | Our business is personal with him and if you get between us — ’ The factor waited for the threat but a tall cloaked figure standing beside Menzies had pulled his arm to forestall him . |
| 6 | The laird waited for it to finish and said scornfully , ‘ How can I do that ? |
| 7 | Cameron waited for the minister to finish his ritual of nodding and handshaking with the congregation . |
| 8 | He waited for me to take a chair . |
| 9 | She waited for them and told Rodney , ‘ I booked a horse for tomorrow afternoon . ’ |
| 10 | He placed a chocolate under his tongue and waited for it to melt down . |
| 11 | Perhaps nothing , but as she waited for money which did n't seem to be coming , it was fairly certain the crash was going to mean something . |
| 12 | One night as he waited for a young man to find him a cab , I saw my chance . |
| 13 | Spike was again very well-behaved , lay down immediately when told , waited for instructions . |
| 14 | Analysing the difference between Labour and the Tories , Mr Kinnock said that while Labour planned ahead for the future , the Government waited for the future to come and hit them . |
| 15 | STUDENTS carrying their luggage and books queued solemnly as they waited for lifts home yesterday morning , a day after the University of Zimbabwe had been shut down indefinitely . |
| 16 | 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 . ) |
| 17 | All kinds of thoughts raced through my mind as I waited for the explosion in our midst . |
| 18 | He said that the Queen eagerly waited for the bishop to show some of his eccentricities but , ‘ fortunately or unfortunately ’ he had acted with the utmost decorum . |
| 19 | As the government exceeded its monetary targets and unemployment soared , so critics in 1980 and 1981 waited for a U-turn , or a change in economic strategy . |
| 20 | Attlee , Macmillan , Wilson , and Callaghan often waited for a policy line in Cabinet discussion to emerge before committing themselves . |
| 21 | She was panting , she realised , and hung for a moment on the newel post of the spiral stairs and waited for her heartbeat to calm down . |
| 22 | On the last Monaghan Day that McQuaid came to the house Moran was on edge as he waited for him as he had been on edge every Monaghan Day , the only day in the year that McQuaid came to Great Meadow . |
| 23 | We waited for Reilly and McDermott at the cross . |
| 24 | The girls suffered agonies of exposure as they waited for them to reach their seats . |
| 25 | But I am long on stamina and waited for a red-breasted merganser aimlessly doing nothing under the cliff on which lay the dozing duo . |
| 26 | Once , at Milan airport , we were herded to the gate and corralled in an area almost big enough for half of us , then shifted to a bus with six seats and standing room for forty , in which the one hundred and twenty of us stood and waited for the idiot who always arrives twenty minutes late despite having been called ten times and being the subject of an Interpol missing persons search . |
| 27 | At Ferrari it waited for him to put a foot wrong and there was blood all over the walls . ’ |
| 28 | Misjudge a change point , drop much below 3500rpm and the engine felt flat , even sluggish , as it waited for the turbo to come on strong again . |
| 29 | Wexford waited for her to talk of love and instead heard her say with a strange sense of shock , ‘ I gave up my job , as I told you , and came back to London to live with him . |
| 30 | Yawning ponderously , he put Clytemnestra outside the back door and while he waited for her , stood staring emptily at the cloudless , star-filled sky . |