Object

• time: Truth puddles get cold on leaves But bide time counting every free-falling moon.

• ye: Bide ye a bit; the good time cometh.

• wi: The wey it is maist commonly yaised in Scots bides mair wi the aulder senses o the wird.

• awa: Thocht it wis better tae bide awa, let them get on wi't.

• wee: If you are mearly curious about my country, bide a wee and enjoy.

Adjective complement

• quiet: He exhorted them not to act rashly, but to trust in God and bide quiet.

Modifying Another Word

• just: Maybe he's just biding his time, waiting for his moment to strike.

• quietly: Proponents of the nuclear option seem to be quietly biding their time awaiting changes in the geopolitical situation.

• merely: The demons that have so fatally tormented European history - most disastrously of all in the twentieth century- are merely biding their time.

• not: It was almost certainly planned, but it does not bide well.

• only: They were both in work, and if plaintiff would only bide her time some other young fellow would come along and marry her.