| 1. | I put the can I had been using to bail water inside the bucket and waited. P682 | Ijujen kar āte kuwatin ānen eo i lowaan bakōj eo im kōttar. | ātet |
| 2. | I thought you would come and I waited for you. | Ibaab kwōnaaj kar itok im iar kōttar. | baab |
| 3. | I waited for you and you didn't show up. In fact, I had come and you were not there. | Iar kōttar eok ak kwaar jab itok. Baj ke iar iwōj ak kwaar jako. | baj ke |
| 4. | He waited until they were not paying attention and sneaked away. | Ear kōttar aer ṃad im iaḷ aidikḷọk. | iaḷ aidik |
| 5. | I didn’t move; I just stayed where I was and waited. P85 | Ijab ṃakūtkūt ak ipād wōt ijo im kōttar. | ijo |
| 6. | If I had waited any longer I would have fallen down hard; just as I emptied the bucket a wave smacked the boat so hard that it almost capsized. P650 | Ñe ikar ruṃwij jidik inaaj kar lukkuun ñarij lowa, kōnke ej ṃōj wōt aō lutōk ḷọk ak ebar tar tok juon ṇo im kōjbouki wa eo im ewātin lā. | kōjbouk |
| 7. | In the meantime, the Captain and I stayed on the boat and waited. P1253 | Ilo kōtaan eo, kōṃro Kapen eo kar pād ioon wa eo im kōttar. | kōtaa- |
| 8. | “If we waited for the fieldtrip ship, I don’t know when we would go, probably three or four months from now.” P236 | “Eḷaññe kōṃro kōttar waan raun, ijaje kōṃro naaj ḷe taḷọk ñāāt, bōlen naaj ḷọkin jilu ak emān allōñ jān kiiō.” | ḷe |
| 9. | When everything was ready to go the Captain went to the back and took the wheel and waited for the Boatswain and Father to finish their cigarettes so they could raise the sail. P837 | Ej ṃōj im pojak wōt men otemjej ak Kapen eo etal lik tak im jibwe jebwe eo im kōttar an Bojin eo im Jema kōmaatiḷọk jikka ko kijeerro ṃōṃkaj jān aerro jerake wūjḷā eo. | maat |
| 10. | The American troops waited a bit before they resumed the assault and wiped out all the Viet Cong. | Rūttariṇae ro an Amedeka raar kōmeḷan jidik innem bar jino ṃurṃur ñan maatin ri-Viet Cong ro. | meḷan |
| 11. | Father went down and waited in the engine room. P476 | Jema eto laḷ ḷọk im kōttar ilo ruuṃwin injin eo. | ruuṃ |
| 12. | When they realized they wouldn’t accomplish anything with their talk, Father and the Boatswain didn’t say another word and instead just stayed where they were and waited for the Captain to tell them what to do. P905 | Kōnke erro kile ke ejej men eṇ erro naaj tokwōje ñe erro kōnono ṃaan ḷọk wōt, Jema im Bojin eo erro jab bar ba juon naan ak erro pād wōt im kōttar ta eo ebar ba erro en kōṃṃane. | tokwōj |