wait on

Example Sentences

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"You become old when you sit down and expect to be waited on," he told fellow senior actors on the travel show Grandpas over Flowers.

From BBC

So, the tense process of the Treasury waiting on every bit of number crunching from the OBR will happen only in the run up to a full Budget.

From BBC

As workers cleaned his Toyota Camry, a retired history professor waited on a bench, reading a biography of Ulysses S. Grant.

From Los Angeles Times

All kinds of firms have told me they are waiting on the Budget before deciding to hire more people, invest in new machines or buildings or expand their operations.

From BBC

The widespread belief that business is still waiting on agents to prove their worth might not last much longer.

From The Wall Street Journal