Example sentences of "he be waiting [prep] [pron] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The work with patients who had the delusion of being watched , and who spoke of the watcher as another person in terms like the following : ‘ He is waiting for me to go now ’ , or ‘ He thinks I should do such and such ’ , had first led Freud to suggest that a part of a person 's ego can keep watch over another part . |
| 2 | So he 's waiting for you to come up and have a look at it . |
| 3 | He told me that he was waiting for me to return . |
| 4 | She knew he was waiting for her to agree , and it was desperation , pure and simple , she thought , that made her remember the elegant blonde he had been dining with that particular night . |
| 5 | He was waiting for her to open the conversation , but his manner was so cold and distant that she found it difficult to begin . |
| 6 | Without saying anything further , he shifted his enormous shoulders more comfortably against the door-frame as though settled for the rest of the day , and moved his eyes to her mouth almost as though he was waiting for her to speak again , she thought , feeling thoroughly disgruntled . |
| 7 | ‘ A little , ’ she admitted , and because she guessed he was waiting for her to flinch she became determined to show no sign of pain . |
| 8 | Maybe there was some difficulty about Lilian 's dress or he was waiting for her to get back from the hairdresser 's . |
| 9 | He was waiting for them to leave . |
| 10 | Or perhaps he was waiting for them to start counting their blessings there and then . |
| 11 | Cowslip himself was at the other end of the hall and Hazel realized that he was waiting for him to reply . |
| 12 | He was waiting for him to get up . |
| 13 | I figured he was waiting for you to wake up , Sleeping-Beauty-style , at which point he 'd marry you and make very tender love to you . ’ |
| 14 | Later I heard from more than one person how , landed with him outside Faber 's , they had been conscious that he was waiting from them to take their leave first , as he was reluctant to provide any clue as to the whereabouts of his home . |