Making clips wait for each other

I have a problem with the way Flash handles a script I am making.
What I currently have is 10 movieclips which I want to play after each other.
Right now, I am using a for loop to start each clip. Naturally this will make it so that each clip starts almost immediately after the one before it.
Can anyone help me to make a script that will make Flash wait with playing a clip until the one before it is done?