How To Use Wait on In A Sentence
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Now wait on a minute, I'm not suggesting anything even a wee bit subversive.
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One could lie in wait on some high crag, and at hitherto unheard-of ranges hit a horseman far below.
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On the 13th an entertainment was pro - vided on board the Batchelor for the Spanifh gentle - 1 men, to which 1 was carried, being not able to move myfeif, but was hoifled in a chair out of the fhip into the Batchelor -, where we agreed, that a de - putation fhould be lent from each fhip, to wait on the governor with a handfome prefent, in acknow - ledgement for his great civility, and the readinefs he expreffcd to fupply us.
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They expect me to wait on them like a servant.
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With the advent of cable, all the good writing, you don't have to wait on a studio to be greenlit.
Times, Sunday Times
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He might be a pipsqueak, but still, having a nine year old put his full wait on me isn't fun.
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I was finally deposited in a small and remote village and told to wait on a pavilion under a palm-thatched roof.
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I'm willing to wait one more week, and that's my final word on the subject.
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A twelve-bar blues: Once there was a garden, couldst thou not wait one hour?
PASSION IN THE PEAK
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They wait on pin and needle for the football score.
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She may do very well for skippers 'wives, chandlers' daughters, and such like; but nobody shall wait on pretty Mistress Margaret, the daughter of his most Sacred Majesty's horologer, excepting and saving myself.
The Fortunes of Nigel
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Wait on, please. I'm just coming.
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The tall man with long blue-black hair leaped lightly from the deck of the riverboat… not wishing to wait on the mooring and the gangplank.
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He seems to expect me to wait on him hand and foot.
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Right from the start, the aging mother, Mag, is demanding, and expects her daughter to wait on her hand and foot.
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It stands in that wistfully earnest doggy way that you see them doing as they wait on the footpath outside the fish and chip shop.
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Glorious gifts await on the lap of the emerald-gowned heiress who sits beneath the softly falling snow on a starry Christmas Eve.
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They wait on bonie Ann. The captive bands may chain the hands,
Song-Beware o’ Bonie Ann
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Many of us are disposed not to attach very great importance to the supposed strategetic dangers that might await on future wars if Southern Ireland were turned out of the Empire, where she evidently is not at home, to be a little nation not capable of much mischief or much good.
Difficulties and Opportunities of the British Empire
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Isabella, your servant, Madam, being sensible of the insociable and solitary life you lead, I have brought my whole Family to wait on your Ladyship, and this my Son in Futuro, to kiss your hands, I beseech your Ladyship to know him son your humble servant: my Son and your Nephew Madam are coming, with the Musick too, we mean to pass the whole day with your Ladyship: — and see they are here.
Sir Patient Fancy
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It is possible that the total Defense Department request, known as the "topline" number, may be released earlier than April, but that must wait on the more detailed submission, officials said.
Aero-News Network
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The "tweeny" develops into housemaid or cook; the young girls employed in superior shops to wait on the elder shopwomen hope to develop into their successors, and the girls who nurse babies on the doorsteps are, after all, acquiring knowledge and dexterity that may fit them for domestic service or for the management of their own families a few years later.
Youth and Sex
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And He spake to His disciples, that a small ship "-- or" wherry "--" should wait on Him because of the multitude, lest they should throng Him.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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A new survey reveals that less than a quarter of people wait on the platform to wave their loved one farewell until the train has pulled out.
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I didn't notice him until he ejected a stream of swear words and profanities when we were told to leave the train and wait on platform three.
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But then a year ago he could still call up the horror of the communal plunge at his earlier lodgings: the listening for other bathers, the dodging of shrouded ladies in "crimping" - pins, the cold wait on the landing, the reluctant descent into a blotchy tin bath, and the effort to identify one's soap and nail-brush among the promiscuous implements of ablution.
Full Circle
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Croquet mallets and hoops wait on the lawn for those who want some pre-lunch exercise, while immaculately attired staff help you choose from the extensive menu of both Malaysian and Western cuisine.
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I'm willing to wait one more week, and that's my final word on the subject.
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As the fop contrived to dress his bailiffs in his livery, and make them wait on his guests at table, so the chagrins which the bad heart gives off as bubbles, at once take form as ladies and gentlemen in the street, shopmen or barkeepers in hotels, and threaten or insult whatever is threatenable and insultable in us.
Essays: Second Series (1844)
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Look at Lady Muck over there, expecting everyone to wait on her!
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Members of Bravo Company, whose insignia is the Grim Reaper, arrived in Kuwait on May 1, 2003, just as President Bush declared major combat operations over.
Speaking of Purple Hearts...
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-- Maister Tirl, the yellow room is ready for ye when ye like; and, gentlemen, as the morn is the Sabbath, I canna be keeping the servant queans out of their beds to wait on ye ony langer, for they will mak it an excuse for lying till aught o'clock on the Lord's day.
St. Ronan's Well
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As the fop contrived to dress his bailiffs in his livery and make them wait on his guests at table, so the chagrins which the bad heart gives off as bubbles, at once take form as ladies and gentlemen in the street, shopmen or bar-keepers in hotels, and threaten or insult whatever is threatenable and insultable in us.
Essays — Second Series
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I know it's not a Browning/write poetry/people wait on you kind of daydream, but honestly, I'm over waiting--and being waited on!
Control, loss of control, running away and the little things.
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And they have the nerve to charge 35 centimes per minute to wait on hold for half an hour for the privilege of speaking to someone who doesn't want to help you, if you manage to eventually get through.
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Davos is a commoner raised to a knight, and suffers slights from the other nobles who wait on Stannis.
A Clash of Kings by George RR Martin « I Can’t Stop Reading!
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Here we are telling the world how free and democratic we are and yet we go to Africa, kidnap people, and force them to wait on us while treating these people abhorrently.
In health care reform debate, Obama puts focus on affordability
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Look at Lady Muck over there, expecting everyone to wait on her!
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I had to wait on line for an hour to get the tickets
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This servant will wait on your guests.
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US Border Patrol agents keep watch as two men wait on the Mexican side of the border fence between Arizona and Mexico at the town of Nogales.
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She may do very well for skippers’ wives, chandlers’ daughters, and such like; but nobody shall wait on pretty Mistress Margaret, the daughter of his most Sacred Majesty’s horologer, excepting and saving myself.
The Fortunes of Nigel
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I did also manage to get the paperwork process started this morning, although it turned out my driver's license alone wasn't enough so I had to go home and get my passport and then schlepp back down to city hall and wait on line all over again.
Breakfast in Bed
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Dear me, is that the latest thing in dolldom, to have the guests wait on the table?" quizzed Marian.
Chicken Little Jane
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He seems to expect me to wait on him hand and foot.
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Why don't you use that agonizer on yourself?" he snarled, nodding at the tiny device hanging in wait on Oben's belt.
Firestorm
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KUWAIT - Five Iraqis were sentenced to death in Kuwait on charges relating to Iraq's seven-month occupation of the emirate, the official Kuwait News Ageny KUNA reported.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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It was quite rude and ill-mannered of you to make them wait on you.
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Freelance musicians at the lowest end of the corrido hierarchy, they wait on street corners or stroll through the flyblown cantinas, where for a pound a shot, they can offer you three minutes of glory.
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I'm willing to wait one more week, and that's my final word on the subject.
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There I would wait once more while he collected his props, and perhaps his thoughts as well, and when he appeared at length, all chipper with a kind of postorgasmic glow, we would drive back to work in the same commandeered vehicle while he regaled me with tales of great paydays of the past, in Gallipoli and on the road to Mandalay.
An Autobiography
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crimping" - pins, the cold wait on the landing, the reluctant descent into a blotchy tin bath, and the effort to identify one's soap and nail-brush among the promiscuous
Full Circle
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We’ve also had to wait on external auditors.
Computing
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On the 13th an entertainment was pro - vided on board the Batchelor for the Spanifh centk - men, to which I was carried, being not wle to move myfelf, but was hoifted in a chair out of the ihip into the Batchelor -, where we agreed, that a de - putation fhould be fent from each fhip, to wait on the governor with a handfome prefent, in acknow - ledgement for his great civility, and the readineis he exprefled to fupply us.
A new collection of voyages, discoveries and travels : containing whatever is worthy of notice, in Europe, Asia, Africa and America
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The only member of that group who will wait on tables next Sunday is Sean Carroll who has served at all of the 45 parties.
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As I walk the halls, I nervously await one of the rattling tchotchkes to come crashing down onto the quaintly undulating creaky floorboards.
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I hate to wait on the finale but it would be an incredibly long … like 2 hour 10 min intermission and the remaining two hour … one movie.
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His palace is a \eiy haiidfome fpacious building, adjoining to which are many gocxl houfe;) belonging to his nobles, who continually wait on hiin, and the grcatcit homage is [) aid him by his fubjcifts in general; for though ihefe princes are valVals, yet they are peniiitLed to live in as great
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This servant will wait on your guests.
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In extreme forms of couvade, the man may mimic the pain and process of childbirth and expect his wife to wait on him in the following days.
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The gentleman had a valet to wait on him hand and foot.
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It was hoped that he could be persuaded to wait on the committee in an advisory capacity.
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He seems to expect me to wait on him hand and foot.
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Typically, ticks wait on vegetation and jump on your shoes, socks, or pants when you walk by.
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He is particularly adept at hitting up-and-unders on the run - a kick which, because the recipient has to look to the heavens and wait on the catch, is seldom easy to return.
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I was the fourth young'un, and weren't nare a one of them big enough to wait on
Oral History Interview with John W. Snipes, September 20, 1976. Interview H-0098-1. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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Can you wait on our table, please?
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There is no need to wait on the engine as there is plenty of electric juice to launch the vehicle.
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'er han's and knees to wait on you, wi' yer fourses i 'th' harvest-field.
A Sheaf of Corn
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These wait on you, to thank you for the honour you have done a person, equally unknown as undeserving, in your valuable present, which I did not receive till several weeks after it was sent: and since I received it, my eyes have been so bad, and my hand so unstable, that I have been forced to defer my duty, as desirous to thank you with my own hand.
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces
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She threw the door open, and unladed the ass of all his wares, and first of the youngling, whom she shook awake, and bore into the house, and laid safely on the floor of the chamber; nor did she wait on her wailing, but set about what was to be done to kindle fire, and milk a she-goat, and get meat upon the board.
The Water of the Wondrous Isles
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What lies in wait on the second and third days?
Times, Sunday Times
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_ _Isabella_, your Servant, Madam: being sensible of the insociable and solitary Life you lead, I have brought my whole Family to wait on your Ladyship, and this my Son _in Futuro_, to kiss your Hands,
The Works of Aphra Behn Volume IV.
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The gentleman had a valet to wait on him hand and foot.
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Description after my first project the progger let me wait one month without any result.
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I continue to believe that their decision to run only the long string, rather than a liner/tieback combination, as well as the decisions to not wait on more centralizers or to not circulate bottoms up, was BP and Transocean's concern about getting pipe to bottom and getting cement in place, not money.
Robert L. Cavnar: Memo to Spill Commission: Bad Cement Does Not Equal Blowout
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I was at Duke Medical the other day to take care of my belove in a serious operation and decided to hit the local downstairs cafe for some bacon and eggs during the long wait on the results of the operation.
Maybe if you had ever had an actual job...
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crimping" - pins, the cold wait on the landing, the reluctant descent into a blotchy tin bath, and the effort to identify one's soap and nail-brush among the promiscuous implements of ablution.
Tales of Men and Ghosts
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She bustled about trying to wait on two customers at once.
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Long-suffering servants were ordered about in French and wore perukes to wait on his guests.
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To vote in Kuwait one must basically be a son of a family that lived there when oil was something that seeped from the ground and ruined the camel forage.
The Backside of War
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This last line, where it says to ‘wait on the bald head,’ clearly refers to a rendezvous point.
Scott Westerfeld: Uglies Quartet
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We wait on your reply to our letter.
