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NP (Protagonist) V () PP[with] (Co-participant) PP[for] (Duration) DNI (Expected_event) PP[at] (Place)
NP (Protagonist) Sfin (Expected_event) V () PP[with] (Co-participant)
NP (Protagonist) V () PP[with] (Depictive) DNI (Expected_event) PP[at] (Place)
NP (Protagonist) V () PP[with] (Depictive) VPto (Expected_event)
NP (Protagonist) V () AVP (Depictive) PP[for] (Expected_event) PP[before] (Time)
NP (Protagonist) V () VPing (Depictive) PP[for] (Expected_event) PP[after] (Time)
NP (Protagonist) V () PP[with] (Depictive) PP[by] (Place)
NP (Protagonist) V () PP[with] (Depictive) PP[for] (Salient_entity)
NP (Protagonist) V () NP (Duration) 2nd (Expected_event) PP[in] (Place) PP[before] (Time)
NP (Protagonist) V () AVP (Duration) DNI (Expected_event)
NP (Protagonist) V () NP (Duration) DNI (Expected_event)
NP (Protagonist) V () PP[for] (Duration) DNI (Expected_event)
NP (Protagonist) V () NP (Duration) DNI (Expected_event) PP[before] (Time)
NP (Protagonist) V () NP (Duration) PP[for] (Salient_entity)
NP (Protagonist) V () NP (Duration) PP[for] (Salient_entity) PP[on] (Time)
NP (Protagonist) V () DNI (Expected_event) AVP (Explanation)
NP (Protagonist) V () VPto (Expected_event) Sfin (Explanation)
NP (Protagonist) V () DNI (Expected_event) AVP (Manner) PP[in] (Place)
NP (Protagonist) V () PP[for] (Expected_event) AVP (Manner)
NP (Protagonist) V () DNI (Expected_event) AVP (Manner) PP[while] (Time)
NP (Protagonist) V () DNI (Expected_event) AVP (Manner) Sub (Time)
NP (Protagonist) V () DNI (Expected_event) AVP (Place)
NP (Protagonist) V () VPto (Expected_event) VPto (Purpose)
NP (Protagonist) V () DNI (Expected_event) PP[while] (Time)
NP (Protagonist) V () PP[for] (Expected_event) AVP (Time)
NP (Protagonist) V () AVP (Manner) DNI (Salient_entity)
NP (Protagonist) V () AVP (Place) PP[for] (Salient_entity)
NP (Protagonist) V () PP[for] (Salient_entity) AVP (Time)
NP (Protagonist) V () PP[for] (Salient_entity) NP (Time)
NP (Protagonist) V () PP[for] (Salient_entity) PP[at] (Time)
NP (Theme) V () PP[PREP] (Circumstance)
NP (Theme) V () PP[PREP] (Manner)
NP (Theme) V () NP (Circumstance)
NP (Theme) V () NP (Protagonist) V () DNI (Expected_event)
NP (Protagonist) V () DNI (Salient_entity)
NP (Theme) V () PP.location[PREP] (Location) NP (Protagonist) V () DNI (Expected_event) PP[at] (Place)
NP (Protagonist) V () DNI (Expected_event) PP[in] (Place)
NP (Protagonist) V () PP[among] (Place) DNI (Salient_entity)
NP (Protagonist) V () PP[at] (Place) DNI (Salient_entity)


Examples from WordNet


I had to wait on line for an hour to get the tickets



Examples from VerbNet


Herbicides persist in the soil.
We lived on $10 a day.
I endured the routine heavy traffic.
Elvis lives.
I lived through the horrible weekend.



Examples from SemCor


He waited at the car side for a moment, looking down at her expectantly.
`` And I am not sure that I have any cash- any money,- but if you will wait just a minute I will write you out a check if I can find my checkbook.
Why did n't you wait at the Burch house?
But worth waiting for.
They crept down the muddy slope toward the waiting boats.
So you sit in the car and listen to the air run_out and listen to the rain and see the mud in_front_of the headlights, waiting for you, for your new spectator_pumps, waiting for you to squat by yourself out there in your tight skirt, crying and afraid and trying to get that damned son-of-a-bitch tire off, because that is being an old_maid too, if you happen to drive a car, it is changing the tire yourself in the night, and in the mud and the rain, hating to get out in it but afraid to stay and afraid to try to walk out for help.
I waited until my man was coming_out of the office with the key to a cabin before I went_in to register.
As they waited for supper they sat by the fire, glasses, while Byron philosophized as much for his own entertainment as hers.
There at the river 's edge waited one Henry_Greene, whom Hudson listed as a`` clerk''.
Pulley had set her up at the Semiramis_Hotel, but she grew impatient waiting for a royal reception and moved to a luxurious apartment to_which the royal pimp had no key.
`` Wait for the charge!
Aggie might fly into a closet, shut the door and bury her head in the clothes; he dared to wait for the lightning.
The right to leave the hoosegow any time to see a lawyer instead of waiting for a lawyer to make a trip to the prison.
Watching, they waited until the squall thickened and began to move in a long drifting slant across the dry burning land.
After the sad impatient moment, waiting for comfort which could not come, she slipped out_of_bed and went to the open window.
He stumbled to the middle of the road and simply stood there, waiting for them, a perfect target.
Waiting for what and for whom, only he could tell and would not.
Pausing, he waited for her to turn, to ask a question.
And he waited for her to say,`` Oh, no, I can do it, Sam.
An officer with a squad of men had been waiting on the bank.
Tonight a group of men, tomorrow night he himself, would go_out there somewhere and wait.
The old_man in the baggy clothes waited at the foot of the steps.
She had begun to turn_back toward the house, but his look caught her and she stood_still, waiting there for what his expression indicated would be a serious word_of_farewell.
His face was dark as the sky above it as he stood on the wing and waited for his pilot.
He would remain in the tent, waiting impatiently, occupied by some trivial task.
Wait for me, Laban, I 'll be dressed in half a second''!
It was in the kitchen, as she was watching the kettle, waiting for the water to boil, that he had grabbed for her.
The British ships rolled at anchor, sent_out picket_boats and waited for orders from London.
He was waiting.
As soon as you find_out if they are Geely and Harris, come on around to the lounge where I 'll be waiting''.
`` Will you please wait in here.
After_all, the average American as he lies and waits for the enemy in Korea or as she scans the newspaper in some vain hope of personal contact with the front is unconcerned that his or her plight is the result of a complex of personal, economic and governmental actions far beyond the normal citizen 's comprehension and control.
Then Rector, attired in his best blue serge suit, sat in a chair out on the lawn, in the shade of a tree, smoking a cigarette and waiting.
Gun waited for Killpath to sit_down behind the desk near the window.
`` We just sit quiet and wait'', Prevot had said.
I looked_for Jessica to materialize out of the clogging, crowd and, as the time passed and I waited, a fiend came_to_life beside me and whispered in my ear: How was I planning to greet Jessica?
`` Wait until my shot.
Dr._Melvin_W._Barnes, superintendent, said he thought the schools were waiting for some leadership, perhaps on the national level, to make sure that whatever steps of planning they took would`` be more fruitful'', and that he had found that other school districts were not as far along in their planning as this district.
Marty smiled at Squire pleasantly and said,`` There was a cab waiting for me here.
`` No directives from Central is scarcely a cause for regret, but there happen to be eight other guys biting their fingernails to the quick just waiting for an invitation to board you, you beautiful thing''.
`` He just lay back there and waited for it'', Meek said.
Thompson himself said:`` I want to enjoy once_more the pleasure of bare walls waiting for new pictures''.
The members of the community do not create the spirit but rather find it present and waiting for them.
Having nothing else to do except wait for my forms to be processed, I gave myself over to speculations concerning the hall itself.
He and Hogan waited by the door, one to either side.
With curiosity and elan, he explored every_inch of glen, beach and burn, once stranding himself for hours on a ledge high_up a sheer seventy-foot cliff and waiting with calm faith to be rescued by Maxwell, who nearly lost his life in doing so.
`` Mr. Wycoff 's car is waiting for you at the east entrance''.
The distance between where she stood and where Dave waited at the outside_door was a_hundred miles.
When the telephone rang on the day after Hino went down to the village, Rector had a hunch it would be Hino with some morsel of information too important to wait until his return, for there were few telephones in the village and the phone in Rector 's office rarely rang unless it was important.
I found a parking place half a block away, sat in the car and waited.
We waited till he had finished laughing, and that gave us a_few moments for taking_stock of him.
Squatting, as if waiting.
He was not the sort of sailor Hudson wanted his backers to see and he had Greene wait at Gravesend, where the Discovery picked him up.
`` I am terribly sorry to you waiting'', she said,`` but won't you make yourself a little drink while you wait?
He watched the girl until she had gone_into the trees, and waited until he could hear the sound of her horse any longer, then went_up to where the children were sleeping.
Reaching the house ahead of them, he waited with his Winchester in his hands.
`` I 've never done this before'', they always said, waiting for the elevator in the hotel corridor.
They waited three minutes and_then crept out on tip-toe; the halls were empty and they passed down_the_stairs to number nine and listened at the door.
`` I have been waiting across the street at the post_office since dawn.
When he turned into the highway that led to the outskirts of the city and then rose toward home, he had to pull over to the curb and wait for a_few minutes, sucking_in air and squinting and blinking his eyes to clear them of tears.
He had lived all his life waiting for her.
Rather_than sit around waiting for the suitcases to be delivered, they had gone sight-seeing.
The rest of you wait here''.
Seeming much relieved, she smiled one of those worth waiting for smiles, and I smiled all_the_way into the bedroom.
Gun waited.
Mickey paused with him, waiting, no_longer impatient, trying now to think it out, do a_little planning.
Mickey waited with slack arms.
One of the hardest chores a detective has is hanging_around on a city street, trying to make himself inconspicuous, keeping_an_eye_on the entrance of an office_building and waiting.
Both of them had known the feeling of the small life in her waiting, ready, for the two of them to run_up her sails.
With a cop patrolling the road Muller would have to be inside a building- if he was here at_all, and not waiting for the prime_minister somewhere between this street and the terminal building at La_Guardia_Airport.
Lawrence was waiting for Bill_Boxell.
`` You might as_well wait here while I 'm gone, so you can use my shower if you 'd like''.
On shore`` the slaves to despotism''- the town dwellers- watched the ships and waited.
Greg slammed his throttle to the fire_wall and rammed up the RPM, and the engine responded as if it had been waiting.
They 'll be there waiting for you.
Waited for more ships, more lobster-backed infantry, and asked what was to be done with a war of rebellion?
Again we waited for Montero.
I 'll be waiting for you there''.
I waited a solid two hours before my man came_out of the office_building.
An old_man, sitting against the wall of a cottage and waiting for the sun to find him, gave her a more_than reflective look as she passed, the sap still plainly rising in his branches.
Gary_Player, the small, trim South_African, was the eventual winner, but in_all his 25 years he never spent a more harrowing afternoon as he waited for the victory to drop in his lap.
They kept him alive, waiting.
Whoever it was had meant to shut him up in here, had followed him and waited till the courthouse and square were deserted.
Behind him on the steps of the little office sat old_man_Arthur; he was straight, something angry in his attitude, as if he might be waiting to report something.
How was he to suspect that an assassin had been lurking somewhere across the street waiting for just such a chance?
My God, how long is he going_to wait, I thought.