A capable ruler, he is no dummy, though he sometimes waits too long before taking action. |
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Generations will remember the long, anxious waits for the jab to save them from the deadly smallpox virus. |
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He thanks everyone profusely and leaves for his kingdom, where his nose-ringed princess waits for him. |
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It is an epic tale of love and war and atonement, which traces one man's long journey home and the woman who waits for him. |
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But you may recall I packed a late lunch and, as the old saw goes, time waits for no one. |
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Cleopatra asks Charmian for mandragora to pass the time while she waits for Antony to come back. |
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The audience waits, with schooled patience, for the next small thing to happen. |
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A victim of nuisance youths has described how he waits in terror for what they will do next. |
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Three years pass, and Butterfly waits patiently for the return of her sailor husband, who has married an American wife. |
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For one thing, if she waits, her claim might end up being barred by the statute of limitations. |
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The criminal carefully jams the token slot with a matchbook or a gum wrapper and waits for a would-be rider to plunk a token down. |
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All season ticket holders managed to get tickets, but many faced lengthy waits. |
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He crushes a cobra to save his life, moves with nomads through Somalia, and waits to die from thirst beneath a truck in the Sahara. |
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All the fuss, tight security and checks led to long waits and traffic snarls. |
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He waits by the phone, debating whether to make a trip to India to search for his son. |
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Norville State School student Lauren Thrupp waits for her cue to play the bazooka during the combined schools performance in the CBD on Thursday. |
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Robinson will now take some time out of the game while he waits to see what other coaching jobs become available. |
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He merely savours his secret and waits until he can return, taking the boy water and food. |
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Point made, he stops and waits a while and treats me to the inevitable tirade of verbal abuse aimed at the car in the meantime. |
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Exactly what the use of white metal may mean, of course, waits on more complex investigation, both metallurgically and archaeologically. |
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If one waits too long, then the patient can be so frail and unfit that surgery is no longer an option. |
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Seated on the edge of her settee, hugging her knees like a nervous child, she waits, listening. |
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On Shavuot, the Torah waits to be received by anyone who truly desires to receive it. |
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The frames of his glasses held together by duct tape, the man waits at the entrance to the paddock for the first horse to arrive. |
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In addition, trappers check their trap lines on a daily basis, minimizing the amount of time the animal waits. |
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Peeking out from behind the curtain, she waits for Buchanan to introduce her, then she shimmies toward the spotlight. |
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Unable to get a taxi, she heads for Charing Cross tube station, buys a used travel card from a homeless girl and waits for the last train. |
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The skipper treads water as a Navy diver waits for a line to be thrown from the Oryx helicopter. |
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He pauses at a boundary, then sets up his old-fashioned camera on its tripod, focuses and sets the exposure, and then waits. |
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A trophy wife smart enough to not ask questions waits at home with his cute kid. |
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He waits as Ian takes in a deep and shuddering breath then opens his eyes as commanded. |
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The village waits for the monsoons to come and rain on its crops, but the ground remains dry and infertile. |
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Yet while all their manager asks them to do is win, the world sits back and waits to be entertained. |
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One Robin waits unflustered while I re-open the back door or open a window in another room into which it has flown. |
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The entire port town in the south of India prays and waits to rejoice in the company of this talented, little cricket family. |
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Jane is the bright spot in her lonely spinster's life, and a letter from Jane is what she lives and waits for. |
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Surely, some Light Colonel with a busted marriage could be convinced to squire her around town while he waits out his retirement papers. |
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Mom doesn't say anything, she just waits like she expects me to continue, so I do. |
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He waits for this to sink in, and I oblige by widening my eyes and licking my chapped lips. |
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I also surmised that she is one of these women who is subservient to her husband and waits on him hand and foot. |
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A short, bald and rather round gent in his late fifties waits in the arrival lounge carrying a placard that reads my name in bold capitals. |
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He cooks up a mixture of beeswax, carnauba wax, resin and oil paint, ladles some onto a flat surface and waits a few seconds for it to cool. |
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He straightens up, leans on the broom handle and waits to see who drops by. |
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The boat heaves to under power and waits, the skipper aware of the half-mile visibility in haze. |
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Then the trap is shut and Mark waits as Gerry repositions the boat and gives him the signal to drop it overboard. |
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Time waits for no man, nor does the court of justice, nor the subsellia of the magistrate. |
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A claw-footed bath waits as though warm water will miraculously arrive courtesy of the solar panels leaning against a wall. |
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Once inside, he often endured endless waits in uncomfortable settings, in crowded or inadequately equipped hospitals. |
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He stares at my clothes with an indiscernible look, waits for a second, then shrugs imperceptibly and returns to his work. |
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Swindon patients fed up with long waits could soon be entitled to treatment in foreign countries. |
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She runs over to the playground area then waits for Anny to give her a hand up the logs that surround the bark. |
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At one point, a character huddles on a bed and watches the door as she waits for her possessed friend to bust in. |
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He's patient and doesn't foist his presence on anyone, but rather waits for them to acknowledge him as a companion. |
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Once inside, he or she of ten endured endless waits in uncomfortable settings, in crowded or inadequately equipped hospitals. |
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The frigate bird waits on high and swoops when it spots a booby bird returning from sea with fish in its crop. |
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He waits until you speak to him, so that he can respond as curtly and bluntly as possible. |
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It comes on a long rod that a hunter pushes into the ground to hold the bow while the hunter waits for game. |
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The door waits to be smashed open, the drawers to be pulled and left gaping. |
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She does not plan large works in advance, but instead visits the designated exhibition space and waits for an idea to present itself to her. |
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It is going to be interesting to see how long the federal government waits before stepping in. |
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After developing the film he then sifts through the stills and waits to see which ones stir memories of powerful emotions. |
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Most were not wealthy, and many were pensioners dipping into their savings rather than face long waits for operations. |
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But she's a pragmatic sort of kid, and she has kept smiling gummily as she waits for a whopping great cash injection from the tooth fairy. |
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To get the longest term go for a card deal that waits until the money hits your new account. |
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On the way back Mr Harrington meets another islander as he waits for the cable car to take him to the mainland. |
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Meanwhile passengers have faced waits of up to 6 hours between check-in and departure. |
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He wrote music for the London theatres in the early part of the 17th century, and in 1622 joined the waits of the City of London. |
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As the nation waits on Florida, Bruce Morton takes a look back at past presidential transitions that have not always been clear-cut. |
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Outside, scores of people mill about, waiters serve free coffee and soda, and a long queue waits to get into the hall. |
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So Kathy is reduced to tears of frustration as she waits to see whether Anna wants her as a sexual partner. |
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Still, the longer waits will cause some travelers to reconsider taking certain flights, like those for weekend jaunts or short business trips. |
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This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives. |
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She waits for another useless barrage of platitudes and axioms, but all she catches is the harsh rasp of his breathing. |
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The thick layer of leaves keeps the ground relatively wet, so Bob usually waits until June to plow the leaves under and then plant hay. |
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Then, he painstakingly whittles each one a 10-inch handle with a kitchen knife, and waits till dark. |
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The Sphinx, aloof from such matters of little consequence, waits patiently beyond the pool. |
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As she waits with the horse, he takes his time finding his way around and she falls asleep on a nest of leaves near the horse. |
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No more long waits to hop planes at busy European or South-east Asian airports. |
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Now the builder simply waits for the epoxy to cure to a strong, translucent finish. |
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Here's hoping Pauly D waits a few years before popping his tot in a tanning bed. |
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Originally they were mummers, performing traditional plays, and they then became known as waits, who would tour the town every evening before Christmas. |
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The crackdown on long waits has been dogged by allegations that ambulance staff are deliberately delaying taking patients into casualty until the hospital is ready for them. |
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We came through Bari, which involved long waits between connections and a lumbering run along the waterfront to the ferry in Patras, with wheeled case bouncing behind. |
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And he always waits up for me, just to know that I got home safely. |
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The Japanese geisha waits for her American navy husband's return. |
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The Broad Street Inn, a six-room Victorian charmer, waits at the end of the route. |
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Then Yvette, who is married to an older intellectual, undoes her skirt and waits for Salim in his bed. |
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He walks me to the street where a beat-up Toyota Corolla waits for us. |
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So when the universe decides it's my turn there is almost certainly a cosmic gathering of monumental proportions that stands on the sideline and waits for the floor show. |
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Because Medicaid is not required to cover HCBS, because a waiver is not an entitlement, there are long waits for waivers. |
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Ballina is agog with excitement as it waits for the start this coming weekend of what is promised to be one of the best Festival and Arts Weeks ever in the North Mayo capital. |
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Barclays waits in the wings and has not ruled out a late bid. |
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Note that the wolf waits until he gets her into bed before pouncing. |
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In front of the prison's thick iron gate, which swirls with razor wire, his lady friend, Debbie, waits to drive him the hundred miles home to Philadelphia. |
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Of course if the Government simply waits for a few months, and then tries to reintroduce the RIP Act revisions, the withdrawal will be seen as subterfuge. |
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To harvest opium from a poppy, a farmer waits until the last petals of the flower have fallen off and then lances the seed pod, taking care not to cut too deep. |
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Like a faithful blue heeler, who waits patiently for his surfer-master in the front seat of the panel van, the car remains an attribute of Aussie masculinity. |
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When a club owner waits to consider security until after the club is built, it can cause additional expenses in retrofits and possible expenses for security personnel. |
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Ben Collins waits anxiously for the jury to return a verdict in his trial. |
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Fortunately, Graham is understanding and, when he comes home and finds a cobweb here and an unswept patch there he waits until I'm not looking and puts it to rights for me. |
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He swaggers to the counter, orders, and waits for his drink. |
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In April, the VA itself confirmed that prolonged waits for healthcare led to the deaths of 23 veterans in recent years. |
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Just look for the tractor trailer with its hazard lights flashing, parked in the middle of the street as it waits to jockey into position in the plant's cramped parking lot. |
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What it does bring is chaos, long waits on hot buses and people who think it is safe to drive with a yucca plant and trailing ivy hanging out of their back windows. |
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The bus is shunned due to the unimaginative routing and long waits. |
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Daniel Schachner, the actor playing the referee for Puppy Bowl X, waits on standby to help out on the field. |
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Two hundred and forty miles west of Manhattan, in a stately red brick building perched atop a hill, the party monster waits. |
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Many others have endured huge obstacles and lengthy waits to immigrate legally. |
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It may mean that the person waits too long to urinate, or urinates too frequently, or even tries to urinate when the muscles keeping the urine in the bladder are clamped down. |
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Chandler is biding his time as he waits to see what other projects come up. |
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Death waits for these things as a cement floor waits for a dropping light bulb. |
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When the broken-hearted Seymour waits alone at the diner bar, Enid feels ashamed of her actions, and takes it upon herself to follow him home and see how he lives. |
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Waiting times for routine knee and hip operations are excessively long and long waits lead to a worse outcome. |
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When hunting aquatic prey, such as ducks or nutrias, the wildcat waits on trees overhanging the water. |
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The program is designed to reduce the inconveniences associated with voice mail, telephone tag and long waits in a doctor's office. |
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First, he waits for a dry, warm stretch to rototill his 3,000-square-foot vegetable garden plot. |
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Your adorable child waits until you're halfway up the road before telling you they've not got their schoolbag. |
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Shephard has had his share of trauma in the war, has seen his share of battles and relives them as he waits for Pascal and Fabrice. |
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Lurking in river or sea, the man-eating saltwater crocodile waits with beady eyes for its unsuspecting prey. |
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The sound of the waits, rude as may be their minstrelsy, breaks upon the mild watches of a winter night with the effect of perfect harmony. |
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She waits for a place outside her prisonlike tent where she can crawl freely and play. |
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People say they have to overcome intransigent staff, endless obstacles and lengthy waits before their complaint is resolved. |
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Riek casts his nets into the river and waits for either Tilapia, Nile perch or catfish to get trapped. |
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Delays and cancellations struck for a second successive day, as passengers complained of long waits to rebook seats. |
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The rise in long trolley waits is particularly worrying, as there is clear evidence they can lead to worse outcomes for patients. |
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Where she waits, there must I go, surrendering all else, forgetting all else, to dree my weird and hers. |
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This ability keeps bodily movement at a minimum, thus reduces the amount of sound the owl makes as it waits for its prey. |
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During the same period there were over 18,000 trolley waits of 4 hours or more. |
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Young, ambitious copygirl Paddy is fascinated by the story and waits, along with the rest of the city, for the inevitable arrest of a murderer. |
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The top predator of these caves, the spider waits with its front two legs raised in the air, then strikes passing amphipods with incredible force and accuracy. |
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The gap of danger where the demon waits is still unknown to you. |
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Evidently, the dolphin waits for each click's echo before clicking again. |
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The outcome of the issue waits for more substantial evidence. |
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The ministers use all their intelligence and strength to perform his job satisfactorily, in which the ruler takes no part, but merely waits for the job to be finished. |
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Say goodbye to long waits at the airport with our new preboarding service. |
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Did you see how she waits on him hand and foot? It's not healthy. |
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What should a wheelchaired person do if he waits by the stairwell for assistance in a fire but help never comes in time to carry him down with an evacuchair? |
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Now scientists have found a moth, the true armyworm, that waits to mate until weather permits, thereby controlling the release of the sexy substance with a chemical system. |
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Young, ambitious copygirl Paddy Meehan is fascinated by the story and waits, along with the rest of the city, for the inevitable arrest of a murderer. |
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It underachieved in terms of cancelled operations and two-week waits for cancer patients and significantly underachieved in its financial management. |
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Every day, hour after hour at three or four major spots where some of the traffic turns left, a conga line like one of those iron ore trains grinds to a halt and waits. |
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