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Jonathan waited on a small white banquette, and rested his hands on the tops of his knees.

One day i waited for her, looked for her , but i was never to see her again.

If he had waited a few more days, the associate said, Mr. Clinton could have had a heart attack.

There was then an agonising period when both parents and doctors waited to see if it had worked.

"Kill me! Oh, kill me! " said the poor duckling, and he waited for his death bowing his head towards the water.

I said yes and he said he was the father of two young boys who often waited for their bus in my shop.

He waited, calmly, gloomily, and then anxiously as she did not appear.

I waited until it was dark, snuck up to the old lady's house, and put the letter I didn't sign through the letter slot in her door.

He was a latchkey kid - he let himself in after school and waited for his parents to get home.

When he reached the workhouse, he waited for a minute to make sure his face was suitably tearful and frightened.

Some of us continued to search for the meaning of those numbers while we waited for rescue.

She raised her hand to her chin, cast her gaze down, and seemed to think as she waited.

On his way back, he got to a wide river and waited for the ferry.

Robert: At least you waited until after Christmas. Thank you for that, at least.

I waited patiently till dawn, but like a lion he broke all my bones; day and night you made an end of me.

People began scrambling, knowing that this was the moment they had waited for.

'Well, let's have it, then, ' said the Mole, after he had waited patiently for a few minutes, half-dozing in the hot sun. . .

I could not give you any sort of account of the various thoughts which troubled my mind during the hour I waited.

A few months later I heard she'd ended her relationship. But I waited at least half a year to ask for a date.

We sat down in the reception room and waited for the drinks. The madam wanted to know why I didn't take a girl also.

We waited for her at the train station for over two hours, but she still didn't show up.

And he waited yet another seven days and sent out the dove, and she did not return to him again.

All in all, he thought as he waited, it had been a rather successful evening.

As we waited, a truck came out of the reserve piled high with bamboo, in contravention of a court ban on logging.

Then he claims to have sat down on a chair in the bank and waited for the police to arrive.

A few individuals waited and waited and then, as if assuming an infantry combat crouch, moved cautiously toward the food.

And I've waited longer for you than I've ever waited for any woman.

Outside our hotel in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, a seemingly ancient woman on crutches waited beside the door with her hand outstretched .

For a couple of months, I waited until she contacted me to tell me about life as an illegally employed adolescent in the big city.

He waited, expecting that she would call out to him to bring it in to her.

A Ghanaian family took him in temporarily, and Kwasi waited in vain to hear from his aunt.

She waited to see if I had anything to say, but I couldn`t think of anything.

In a pilgrim household, the adults sat down to eat and the children and servants waited on them.

The Norwegians stayed in Framheim and waited. They lay in bed, listened to the wind outside, and thought about Scott and his motor sledges.

The trees stood in an attitude of intentness, as if they waited longingly for a wind to come and rock them.

He sent her a box of her favourite chocolates. It was a sprat to catch a mackerel, and he waited eagerly for her reply.

The light centers are the particles that you've carried with you all of your life and waited to ignite in the new state of consciousness.

I saw you yesterday as you were walking with your friends. I waited all day hoping you would want to talk to me.

Zhi Chengguan, 38, white-collar employee in Guangzhou, said he has waited for the Singles Day to come for a few days.

After that, I began to regret. I just waited to be changed into a cow.

" papa , we are late , " said princess ellen , turning her lovely head on her statuesque shoulders as she waited at the door.

Women waited in line for hours, carrying copies of "The Pioneer Woman Cooks" for her to sign.

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

The next day, Robin waited for the tinker. He knew the man would be coming back to find him.

For the next four days he tried to break or shift the rock as he waited for help.

But it would have been nice not to have waited so long for the Treasury to start firing on all cylinders.

I also wasn't clued into the fact that I never really tried to go after girls, and instead passively waited for them to come into my life.

Marguerite seemed to be thinking, for she did not reply. My heart beat violently as I waited for her answer.

He took his time; after all, historians, alpinists, journalists and the simply curious had waited over seventy-five years for this moment.

The next morning he entered his office in trepidation and waited to see what would happen , nothing happened .

Two days ago, waited more than 10 hours for gas for her own car, and there was no guarantee it wouldn't run out.

She sat down in one of the rocking-chairs, while Hurstwood waited for the boy, who soon knocked.

After dinner, take a walk with his wife back, and then waited for her to finish washing the rest.

he took a short walk while he waited for the doctor to attend to his wife.

He waited for some minutes, then, very quietly and carefully, he went back to the door of her dressing-room.

So you can be sure that you will experience what we have promised you, and you could say that it will be all the better for having waited.

It is just that in the past many men, wanting to be responsible, waited until they felt financially ready to support a family.

I waited for him for an hour, and he never came!

But Napoleon waited only to see that everything was in good order, and then he gave the order to march.

I did not block my own progress while I waited for him to finish each part of the task.

Eleven ships was no wise enough, but if he waited any longer, the free folk at Hardhome would be dead by the time the rescue fleet arrived.

For a year, I waited to hear what had happened to him.

Only one man, who stood on the deck of his ship in the silent creek, was saying good-bye to her in thought as he waited for the tide.

He went into the bathroom and I waited beside the door, when he was finished he leaned on me and we went back to the bed.

He waited an appropriate half hour and then went in, bringing with him a box of chocolates for the secretary.

Then Wu noticed its mother a few feet away in the grass. He couldn't get a good shot at her from his angle, so he waited.

Now as Joseph waited for me to answer, he looked so kind and sympathetic that I poured out the whole story, trying not to cry.

She waited for a second, as if, again, she expected him to go on. Then she looked at her watch, waved, and hurried toward the entrance.

We lit the firecracker and waited for it to go off, but it was a dud. Nothing happened when the fire finished burning the fuse.

He has said he waited weeks to be interviewed by the police in Sweden; they have said that it was Mr. Assange who delayed meeting with them.

I waited for a week before I decided to take the initiation.

She also sometimes waited for me to come out of our place in the early morning, and at some point began to sleep in front of the residence.

He waited patiently as she continued to babble, looking close to tears.

If I'd have waited around for that, I would have never -- the frog would have died, you know.

I was reminded how much I prefer trains as I waited for one on a frigid December day in Waterbury , Vt.

He said he'd waited so long that he couldn't stay any longer.

I can remember how we waited for payday as if it were a holiday.

Her mother waited on him as long as she lived at home.

And it was broken in that day: and so the poor of the flock that waited upon me knew that it was the word of the LORD.

She thought of her lover opening the door on the other side of which waited the sharp teeth of the tiger!

A three-day bride of Chen's family still waited for her husband in her fifties at the archway below.

Therefore, has a look at the person carefully, perhaps he already waited for you to be very long.

For months and months, Meng Jiangnu waited for her husband to return but there was no news of him.

He went on his way, while Tess stood and waited, tears pouring down her cheeks.

He'll stay with me too, I suppose, the old man thought and he waited for it to be light.

He waited for her for more than an hour, but she did not come.

Zheng E revealed below that the deceased there in Australia said that they had waited so long for salvation, so she did it soon.

He closed the door behind him, waited for a moment, then did a curious thing for a visitor to a theatre party.

I waited till I reckoned he had got a good start; then I out with my saw, and went to work on that log again.

She managed to come to terms with her pain and waited patiently for her doctor to come.

Therefore, has a look at the person carefully, perhaps he already waited for you to be very long.

For months and months, Meng Jiangnu waited for her husband to return but there was no news of him.

He went on his way, while Tess stood and waited, tears pouring down her cheeks.

He'll stay with me too, I suppose, the old man thought and he waited for it to be light.

He waited for her for more than an hour, but she did not come.

Zheng E revealed below that the deceased there in Australia said that they had waited so long for salvation, so she did it soon.

He closed the door behind him, waited for a moment, then did a curious thing for a visitor to a theatre party.

I waited till I reckoned he had got a good start; then I out with my saw, and went to work on that log again.

She managed to come to terms with her pain and waited patiently for her doctor to come.

Julia lifted her forearms out of instinct, shut her eyes, and waited for the swift delivery of his decades'-old promise.

She managed to come to terms with her pain and waited patiently for her doctor to come.

Julia lifted her forearms out of instinct, shut her eyes, and waited for the swift delivery of his decades'-old promise.

He just waited for the question and answer session, and then smoothly dismissed the allegations; "baseless" and "absurd" , he said.

Well he waited about 10 minutes just sitting there before he decided to look out a window and no one was there.

But it be so many times over 34 years that we have watched and just waited to see fire coming over the ridge and thought we'd get out.

I love you more than I've ever loved any woman. And I've waited longer for you t han I've waited for any woman.

He sucked in his breath, as if to narrow his bulk, and waited, making an effort to will the right words into the Human's mind.

The captain waited a little--letting the new flood of information which had poured in on him settle itself steadily in his mind.

But what is striking, said the studio that took the pictures, is that Mr. Remis's wedding took place in 2003 and he waited six years to sue.

the moor. We hid near the house where Sir Henry was having dinner, and waited for him to leave.

But what is striking, said the studio that took the pictures, is that Mr. Remis's wedding took place in 2003 and he waited six years to sue.

the moor. We hid near the house where Sir Henry was having dinner, and waited for him to leave.

As he got there, he took his stand at one end of the bridge and waited.

And he waited until the final approach, trying to make sure the plane crashed in a heavily populated area.

They waited for four or five minutes, but nothing happened until there was an enormous splash and a shark landed in the boat.

He walked home slowly while talking to himself and kept puzzling over why the train hadn't waited for him for two minutes more .

But Napoleon waited only to see that everything was in good order, and then he gave thesgroupsto march.

Our captive sat in the cabin opposite to the iron box which he had done so much and waited so long to gain.

Hi Nancy, I recently posted a picture on my page and waited to see if anyone thought it might be Planet X.

He waited for Aberforth to jeer or to argue, but he did not. He merely scowled.

Hi Nancy, I recently posted a picture on my page and waited to see if anyone thought it might be Planet X.

He waited for Aberforth to jeer or to argue, but he did not. He merely scowled.

He was aware that a change had occurred in the quality of her silence, in the silence something waited, ready to spring.

He waited for his mother to whisper something about how they might need to find another restaurant, but she said nothing.

Yet in Kesennuma, some waited a whole day and got just a 20-litre ration at the end of it.

Gina Costigan waited for Bauer to relay more information. She was in her late twenties and, like Jack, married with one daughter.

A few years ago, you got your map each morning in the newspaper or waited for whenever TV decided to flash one up for a few seconds.

She waited some time to hear her son's light step, but he did not immediately appear.

Sonny waited for a few moments, gave Lucy a hard kiss on the lips, and then slipped out the door after Hagen.

I could do nothing but waited for him in an anxious seat!

I could do nothing but waited for him in an anxious seat!

It had waited for me to be born, and then it had waited for me to be suddenly crippled in both legs during my wildly ambitious youth.

After aiming at my chest I waited a second or two, and suddenly my candle, my table, and the wall in front of me began moving and heaving.

He had waited and plotted for a great length of time to be standing where he was now, with Jones at his command(5).

For her part, she waited several days to tell him that she was a salesgirl in a shoe store.

In any event, once they'd put the fornix to bed, Olry and Haines waited another decade or so before they revisited the sexy third ventricle.

Eventually Lewis convinced them. But when they got to the meeting place, Clark and the others had not yet arrived. So they waited.

He said Mr. Obama had been smart about picking the terrain he fought on. "He has waited until the stars aligned before he acted, " he said.

I waited for him in front of the KFCs door. I havent seen him for a year. And in a year, we didnt come into contact with others frequently.

Having waited long enough for his invitation to regain its scarcity value, the tousle-haired dictator is at it again.

We might have waited till the owner had published and offered a reward, but we did not dare to venture the receiving of the reward.

And Shakyamuni, perceiving that Vakula had become infatuated with him, waited patiently for the maturity of the monk's insight.

That's it? You waited up all this time so that you could tell me that you don't want to talk to me?

She had to be nursed and waited upon, and this was no one's duty more than Karen's.

I just waited to see where the ball was going and then threw myself at it.

We expected a perfectly normal wedding until the groom left the bride at the altar. We waited for an hour but he never came.

He said that he had something to do and asked me to wait for him in my office. I didn't see him until I waited for a long time.

It will come as no surprise to any man who has waited for his wife to choose what to wear for a night out.

According to several sources, the doctor, who waited outside, told her to take in a handbag that was fitted with an electronic device.

Gudrun waited for him to come up. Then she softly put out her hand and touched him, saying softly: "Don't be angry with me. "

You smile slightly, are different I to say any, but I thought, for this, I already waited to be very long.

Mr Dore and his teenage bride are from the same village, and he said that he had waited for her to grow up before proposing.

Kostya waited for a few moments to see if he would say anything else.

One day, she waited for her parents to leave the house so she could take apart the television and reassemble it before they returned.

We waited respectfully for her to break the silence.

I waited but she did not say any more, and after a moment I returned rather feebly to the subject of her daughter.

So she took her baby to another doctor, who told her to wait a year to see if he would "grow out of it. " So Lee waited-and watched.

Stopping at a corner, he waited for a car south bound. This was no day to be out; he would go home.

The Dutchman waited a good hour after the ghost disappeared before crawling out of the bushes and making his way home.

Mike: Well. Mary had promised to be my date, but she stood me up. I waited for her for a full hour in the cold wind.

They waited patiently for a very long time, jumping up and down in the snow to keep warm.

Actress Tang finally understand well the tree, he waited for her to have been fond of her.

However, she said nothing and waited to see how the concert would end.

he and his wife waited anxiously look for everywhere, fangyuan kilometers have left their tore heart crack lung between the moan of.

I got there a little early so I parked the car by the curb, across the street from where she worked, and waited for her.

He and his troops waited out a blinding ion-charged sandstorm at Vondar Canyon before setting out on the offensive.

She waited on tables during high school and later took a courier job at the hospital where her mother was a registered nurse.

She waited and waited. Before she could sit down in the hospital she stood up to run to the school.

"We're trying sign language to communicate with Joel sooner than we would be able to if we waited for him to talk, " says Jill.

They waited for her to call again . . . but she never did.

Day after day he waited in vain for her to telephone him.

Would you mind if we waited with you? You know, just to keep the womanizers from bothering you.

So we put a lot of food and drink on the boat, and the next morning, we waited for my master and his friends.

He waited until she was on her own away from the stall and approached her asking to go out for a drink sometime.

As the sun was rising the next morning, Gabriel waited out-side his hut until he saw the young woman riding up the hill.

Tallis waited for her to leave. Her figure interrupted the junction between the walls in the corner on his right.

The Psammead pushed out its long eyes and got bigger and fatter, and the children waited.

He waited for the Cat to tell him to stop, and when he didn't, he opened his eyes.

He added that the change had been 'long overdue' but did not explain why he had waited so long.

Your photo albums. Your roommate let me in and said I could make myself comfortable while I waited for you.

Mother told me. She quicklyhurried me back to bed, and we waited for the next day to come.

"He waited in his car for some time, there was no move by the policeman and he thought that it was OK for him to drive along, " Wang said.

He waited for her for three months. He sorted out his photos, rearranged his books, moved the furniture around, and then he went on waiting.

she was able to spend 45 minutes with a dying cancer patient while the woman waited for her husband in the middle of the night.

I remember days of sunshine and of warmth, a sensation of lull, as if the world waited and held its breath.

In each of the rests, he took his hands from the piano and waited.

Meade waited for a week until his army was stronger. But by then, Lee and his men had crossed safely back into Virginia.

I would have waited like a week or two but you never tried to reach me, no, you never call me back.

Keith stood near the preacher in a black tux and he told me later his stomach was doing flips as he waited for it to begin.

Some students snapped photos of Mr. Paulson; others waited for a glimpse of him.

He waited, expectantly. She had ceased to laugh, and looked at him, straight in the eyes.

When I got to the pier Mona was not to be seen. I waited for the last passenger to descend the gangplank, but no Mona.

He had waited in the kitchen until Gladys Linch prepared it, and then carried it up to his wife's room himself.

I gone to the bank to get money , but i didn't get a number still i had waited one hour and that droved me nuts.

We waited to see whether she would remain or go in and, if she remained, we left our shadow and walked up to Mangan's steps resignedly.

While I waited for her to arrive I changedmy shirt and put on my good suit.

After giving his fingerprints, Xu waited to be called for his interview, sitting in an area that was as quiet as a library.

At that, as if it had been the signal he waited for, Newland Archer got up slowly and walked back alone to his hotel.

He waited, and when she did not open her eyes he wished her a night of good sleep and clicked off the bedside lamp.

Then she waited for her withdrawal slip to come out of the slot at the upper right corner of the machine.

He waited two or three more weeks to tell his wife, until she came home at the end of a bad day.

Harry showed up to get Billy just a few minutes later. Jacob took me on a brief tour of his tiny room while we waited to be unsupervised.

She probably thinks I hate her now. I've waited my entire adolescent life for a date with this girl, You know, serena van ddsen.

So he dropped off his hoe and waited there. But day after day, there were no more rabbits coming. What was worse, all his crops were dead.

Notice that Henry waited until after Fifa ruled out a replay before saying it might be the right solution.

he walked home slowly and talking to himself and kept puzzling over why the train hadn't waited for him for another 2 minutes.

One of the Denver doctors told Don that the boy would have died if they had waited any longer to get him to a hospital.

"We've waited long enough, now something had to be done. . . The best will be chosen and the best you find among women and men, " she said.

However, the U. S. does not have an extradition treaty with China so officials waited for Freeman to leave China before arresting him.

He waited up for her for the next three nights, but the tapping at the window didn't come.

"I waited for him to continue, " writes Mr Hayes, "but he said nothing. "

Also has night's dew missing tear, waited for the bitter years' liquor, might have been drunk your appearance.

So she waited in a quiet part of the street until people began to stream out of church.

If I waited 'til I got to a booth 20 feet away I'd have gotten it for $10. 00!

The situation is not dissimilar to that of Michael Owen, who waited for Manchester United's offer.

It was about dark now; so I dropped the canoe down the river under some willows that hung over the bank, and waited for the moon to rise.

They waited for the doctor to come in. Beth could not begin to think she had cancer. As her mind drifted off her cell phone rang.

A week went by and a disciple was dispatched to the tailor while the Master excitedly waited for his shirt.

She wondered what he was doing while she waited for the oil to heat up in the pan or for the rice to fluff in the paila.

When he had finished, he waited as if for a reply.

I wanna thank you for giving me time to breathe. Like you waited so patiently. While I got it together. While I figured it out.

Then she weeded in the garden while waited for her husband.

A crowd of soldiers waited at Lee's headquarters. They pushed close around him trying to touch him, trying to shake his hand.

For our future, since I do not know what to say . . . When I waited for a moment of starting slowly fill the bar.

Slowly comes, but I discovered some people join a production team, I waited quite a while, hasn't how turned to me!

he waited silently , trying to look forward into the darkness.

So we hung on to whatever we could at the back of the boat and waited to be rescued.

I posted mine on a Saturday, and I felt I could have given my project a better chance if I had waited two more days.

An American airline waited a year for officials to sign off on an already agreed route from Atlanta to Lagos.

It took half the afternoon to get a reply, but he waited patiently until the Western Union man sent for him and gave him a sealed envelope.

If you wanted to read the newspaper from Beijing, you waited three days. So for us, there was no such thing as news.

WOODY ALLEN: I've never been someone who's waited for the muses, because my background is in television.

Displays the total number of threads that waited to acquire a managed lock since the application started.

As we waited in that room, Liz on her back in that awkward position once again, the tension grew while we anticipated the findings.

The Kitty Hawk waited as long as it could, but logistics and bad weather forced it to leave.

Weeks later, he especially waited for me at a subway station. He told me that he was fired and asked me whether my employer was recruiting.

Oh~~waited so long, I thought the real thing was a fake, I thought it was a tool to break me down You prove me wrong again.

As he wrote a word on his card and waited for an envelope he glanced about the embowered shop, and his eye lit on a cluster of yellow roses.

Feeling embarrassed by his posts, Mr. Starr waited for weeks before posting an apology of sorts to his virtual friends.

He waited for the first break in the conversation, and, with a face of distress, walked out of the room to look for Sonya.

He set the camera up in the dark and waited.

Another said she waited three years before telling her husband she had dropped one of the diamond earrings he'd given her down the sink.

Anyway, the war against this kind of plunder has not waited for the command of these gentlemen.

He cites the example of the Prophet Muhammad who married six-year-old Aisha but waited for consummation till she was a little older.

Having waited for one year, all parties concerned and the international community expect to see new progresses of this round of Talks.

He waited all of 45 seconds to make clear he came not just ready for a fight but ready to pick one.

I waited and waited for you, ' she went on, her tones suddenly resuming their old fluty pathos.

But he waited and waited and announced at the last minute that he would not run for president.

I returned to the hotel and waited until six. Monsieur Duval did not return.

then they waited in silence for what seemed a long time . the hooting of a distant owl was all the sound that troubled the dead stillness.