wait up

Old friends would be waiting up for him in the small hours.

When he brought me home, my father was waiting up for us.

I got back and she was waiting up for me.

I told him that we might be late and not to wait up.

The majority should have service within three days, although some could wait up to a week, she said.

"There is no need for both of us to wait up."

It's waiting up there at the end of the river.

Without it they might wait up to an additional three years.

"And what makes you so sure there's something waiting up there?"

After all, that is the only reason I waited up for you.

He drove home, where his wife and three children were waiting up for him.

Sometimes they have to wait up to 30 minutes for the phone to be answered.

He wondered for a second if she had just been waiting up on her high floor.

She was waiting up to talk to him at the opposite end of the house from the children.

He tells her not to wait up, and she says she'll be waiting no matter how long.

Some have waited up to a year and a half for benefits.

Companies were waiting up to four years for a permit.

She'd been permitted to wait up late for his call.

I thought you would be waiting up for me, Gilbert.

"It was good of you to wait up for me."

Maybe you'll have to wait up and pay for a cab to bring them home.

He suggested that workers might have to wait up to five years for this to happen.

He might have thought that maybe someone was waiting up there to catch one of them.

"May I write a note to a friend who is waiting up for me?"

"I'll lose my mind if I have to wait up there with him alone."