Sentence examples for ordered to wait from inspiring English sources

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The Baroness, who'd taken to mead, was ordered to wait on her own maid – quid pro quo.

We were frogmarched into a snowy field alongside the railway line, and ordered to wait,surrounded by armed police.

Bishop was driven to the house by a schoolfriend, who was then ordered to wait outside in the car until the recital was over.

Once one was found — Saddam on horseback — a nearby tank was ordered to wait until an embedded team from Fox News got there.

A former Black Panther who turns 80 next month has been denied release from prison and ordered to wait 15 years before seeking freedom again.

A 16-year-old called Veronica Francesca Risoo) is in deep trouble with the mob, the Camorra; she has been ordered to wait in an abandoned, derelict building while the tough guys decide what to do with her.

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"Uncertainty provides an incentive to defer such investments in order to wait for new information".

Some New Jersey cities will begin issuing same-sex marriage licenses, despite orders to wait till the State Supreme Court rules.

He charged that Devolder "stole" last year's Tour of Flanders from Boonen by breaking away despite team orders to wait for him on a late climb.

When sonogram technology spread in China, in the nineteen-eighties, couples aborted female fetuses in order to wait for a boy.

Dr. Ira M. Jacobson, professor of medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, said many patients have been forgoing treatment in order to wait for the approval of the new drugs.

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