Example sentences of "[adv] and waiting for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( And as Lucy was shuffling tensely and waiting for someone to respond , Joe Lucas was in his hotel room and trying to prise the cap off a fresh bottle of painkillers that he 'd picked up , along with some disposable razors and a few other essentials , from a late-opening pharmacy on Piccadilly . |
| 2 | Roy , 62 , said : ‘ We were fed up sitting down and waiting for people . |
| 3 | That I 'm still rehearsing Hamlet somewhere and waiting for the pain to end . ’ |
| 4 | I stood looking down a flight of seven stairs in my Afro wig , custom-built frock and charm bracelet , listening to the band tune up and waiting for my intro . |
| 5 | There 's a table all set up and waiting for the dinner meeting . |
| 6 | Cornelius woke again to find the world up and waiting for him . |
| 7 | The explanation has to be that the company shot itself in the foot by announcing the Sparcsystem 10 machines with such a long lead time , many would-be customers are holding back and waiting for them , and that things will not really start to pick up until those start shipping around September time — which suggests that dullness will continue for the current quarter . |
| 8 | It 's then a matter of sitting back and waiting for the calls ! |
| 9 | We 've got to be pro-active about this , it 's no good simply sitting back and waiting for whatever government is in power , to impose certain regulations , certain restrictions , certain proposals . |
| 10 | ‘ We take the view it is better to get a partly complete story with a whisper of opportunity and get it to one or two key companies quickly so they can get out there , rather than sitting back and waiting for a nicely tailored account of what is going on which , by the time we get it to them , will be history rather than opportunity , ’ he explains . |
| 11 | And the reverse of that , wrote Harsnet , the feeling that all we have already felt and seen and heard has yet to happen , is so far only a dream , a fantasy , and the sense , he wrote , that this may be a feeling we experience again and again throughout our lives , that the elements of experience have failed to catch on to the glass of our lives , or that the glass is there and waiting for the experience to be registered , that it can wait for ever , for it does not know the meaning of time . |
| 12 | Cummings ( 29 ) missed most of last season through injury — but he 's fully fit again and waiting for offers . |