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I went to hide in my bedroom, under the blankets, and then I waited for my father to come back from work with, one could say, much apprehension.
Many survivors have waited many months to undergo surgery to heal their blinding cataracts.
I first started thinking about getting it in my mid-20s, but I deliberately waited a really long time.
I always waited for it to sort of hit me on the head.
So what we've done is take out all of the non-value added walking, searching, wasting, waited time, and we've developed a very high-fidelity way to pick these orders, where you point at it with a laser, scan the UPC barcode, and then indicate with a light which box it needs to go into.
And I just waited for the time that I could go off and read my books.
And so we waited a little while before we had our second child.
They waited a few hours or a few days, and they went to another service provider and had the IUD removed for one rupee.
And I waited, and the next day I liked it a bit better, the next day I liked it a bit better, and now I really love it.
I'd already waited 10 months, and I had to wait 18 more months.
They threw these hand grenades at innocent people as they sat eating in cafes and waited to catch trains on their way home from work.
It could show text and after we waited a bit, we had these things called images.
Text first, then images, we waited, CD-quality sound over the Net, then movies over the Internet.
Waited until it was just the right time, followed him very closely behind.
If we waited until the heart attack, we would be sacrificing 1.1 million lives every year in this country to heart disease.
I asked thousands of high school juniors to take grit questionnaires, and then waited around more than a year to see who would graduate.
But the thing is, had I waited for him until 2042, my film wouldn't be a futuristic film anymore, so I just couldn't do that.
Oonagh told the enraged visitor that her husband wasn’t home, but welcomed him to sit and eat while he waited.
Fourteen minutes is not enough time to fully credit those good and generous people who fought with me and for me and who waited to welcome me back from that agonized, lonely place.
I just waited to see who these profiles were going to attract, and mainly what I was looking at was two different data sets.
Safely reaching the other side, I turned to the left, pushed the auto-button for the audible pedestrian signal, and waited my turn.
We waited a month, and this is what we found out.
So he started paying attention, and as he waited for raised hands, he realized the men's hands were up.
One day, a mom asked us why we couldn't do her taxes while she waited for the doctor.
Outside, there is a line of women who have waited several hours to be treated.
And the reason he's waited three days is because he knows that on the fourth day or the fifth day, those larvae will hatch and he'll have a huge fly problem.
Editors sat in their newsrooms and waited for the government to tell them what to do.
Every day, people come up to me and say, "I wish I had interviewed my father or my grandmother or my brother, but I waited too long."
He waited until everybody was gone, and he said, "Rev, rap sermon, huh?"
And as the 30 seconds we waited two and a half hours for comes to a close we gather up our things, and I lock eyes with the clerk again; and she gives me an apologetic smile and mouths, "I am so sorry!" (Laughter) And her humanity, her willingness to admit her mistake disarms me immediately, then I give her a: "It's okay, it happens.
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