They waited not for a bus but, in a sense, a horse.
The scientific had given way to the emotional, and we waited not for tactics but for miracles.
We moved in circles that were adjacent but not overlapping, and I waited, not at all anxiously, to bump into her again one day.
Sure enough, as if it were meant to be all along, we waited not the usual six months to a year for our first child.
Now he waited not so hopefully, not so patiently — dragging himself between the hostel, the train station, and the Internet café, checking vainly for messages from Hayley — while seeking treatment at the clinic up on the hill.
Less than a year later, he was captured by the Japanese after the surrender of Singapore – and for the next three and a half years Nan waited, not knowing if he was alive or dead.
In the spring of 2003, as American troops rumbled up from Iraq, Iraqis waited not with flowers but with stolid frowns to see whether Mr. Hussein was truly gone before celebrating the new American order.
I have waited, not as president, but as your fellow citizen, for over 30 years to see my country once again in the position to build the future of our dreams for our children.
The legislators seemed uninterested in the possibility that women who sought abortions between twenty and twenty-four weeks (and, out of the total who end their pregnancies, they are a tiny percentage) might have waited not out of idleness but because of the late discovery of a medical issue or disorder in their lives.
Mr. Dickinson and his brother Cody, a subtle and snappy drummer, locked into a frolicsome boogie on "Waiting on My Wings" (reportedly named during a long jam session as the band waited not for sanctity but for a chicken meal delivery).
But under this new approach, Nariman, who last month lay burbling in a cot he shared with a pink teddy bear, gaining weight and being cooed over by nurses, waited not for death or a life of despair but for placement in a foster home and eventually a family to take him permanently.
