Example sentences of "he wait for " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he first came into the Hampshire team , Greenidge 's natural inclination was to attack every ball , and it was Richards more than anyone who taught him restraint , taught him to wait for the bad ball . |
| 2 | He declines and asks whether I want him to wait for me . |
| 3 | I could n't face sitting at the station waiting for him to turn up : I was damn well going to make him wait for me . |
| 4 | In one week I listened to the English boy singing the praises of my dark colouring and frizzy hair , felt him kiss me on the cheek with obvious pleasure whenever I cooked a meal and when I came in from work , or when we sat watching television together , and found him waiting for me at the end of the road when I was late back for some reason . |
| 5 | This Simone has come directly from playing the Dame of pantomime and maintains that character from her very first entrance when she shakes a tablecloth out of the window and then furiously throws every vegetable in sight at Colas because she finds him waiting for Lise . |
| 6 | First , Mr Delors — who had earlier sent a furious letter to Mr Major , complaining of Britain 's lack of faith over the TV pact — had kept him waiting for over an hour at Heathrow while his flight from Brussels was delayed by fog . |
| 7 | I had kept him waiting for over an hour , though he was n't too annoyed as he had been able to retrieve three brand new titanium ice screws and a rope , left , we presumed , after an incident the night before when we had a helicopter hovering above the face . |
| 8 | Like when a drunken Richard Burton nodded off in the middle of a question ; the time Warren Beatty kept him waiting for an hour-and-a-half … and the day Robert Raging Bull De Niro looked as if he was about to punch him on the nose . |
| 9 | She went upstairs and slung her bikini bottoms in a bag , along with her suntan oil and a towel , and ran downstairs , to find him waiting for her by the front door . |
| 10 | Yet she was not surprised to find him waiting for her outside the church , apparently absorbed in the design of an iron pineapple on the railings . |
| 11 | The ancient servitor , who drove with a slack rein and a sublime disregard of the pot-holes , seemed to take it as a personal affront that Miss Kyte had kept him waiting for more than two hours . |
| 12 | Naylor Massingham demanded , growing more furious , she realised , the longer she kept him waiting for an answer . |
| 13 | How she managed to find a smile for Ivo when she saw him waiting for her in the foyer , she did n't know . |
| 14 | We parted company , he to wait for light on Bowfell , which did not look likely , while I headed down The Band for Hodge Close and an impatient climbing partner . |
| 15 | Should he wait for a year , by which time the quarrel between Hindus and Muslims over the disputed Ayodhya mosque will have cooled down ? |
| 16 | When can he wait for you ? |
| 17 | Why was he waiting for Miss Harker ? ’ |
| 18 | Was he waiting for me to come in with him ? |
| 19 | The next question : who was he waiting for that night ? |
| 20 | There simply is n't any dramatic , conflict in a story about a purported villain who wears a Beatle cap , drinks from a huge glass with fish in it and gazes out from his island home on the great blue sea as he waits for his pursuers , a pair of handsome would-be lovers who sing songs like ‘ We could of , we should of , perhaps we can . |
| 21 | He waits for a beat , then says : ‘ I freed whooooooo ? ’ |
| 22 | And he waits for me . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ He waits for you ? |
| 24 | Bored as he waits for the liquid to boil , eyed admiringly by his pint-sized partner , he plays with wooden spills , dipping them into the solution and passing them through the flame beneath . |
| 25 | Yet he can still play for his former club while he waits for the clearing period to expire . |
| 26 | He taps his pencil up and down as he waits for the finance director to finish . |
| 27 | As he waits for the computer to load up the programmes , he scans the rolls of newly arrived faxes . |
| 28 | The occasional sly lift is one thing but I suspect Irish referee Stephen Hilditch will become suspicious when he sees Adolf Malan waving at him from upon high while he waits for the throw . |
| 29 | The stunned aftermath , as he waits for his wound to be treated among friends both dead and gravely injured , is convincing and moving . |
| 30 | With this in position he waits for the right moment to switch through the distance shot film of the city , coupled with the live action inlay of the characters . |