Example sentences of "[noun sg] waiting to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although at first sight the Bull-Leaping Fresco found in the cellars of the Labyrinth 's East Wing seems in its present reconstruction to show , on the left , a bull-leaper waiting to be hoisted into the air , the figure is in fact a bull-grappler and represents a group of two , three or four grapplers whose job it was to pad the horns , keep the bull 's head low and the rest of its body still during the leap . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'll go and get you some wood , ’ Otley volunteered as he disappeared from view , leaving me with a duster in my hand and a country seat waiting to be polished . |
| 3 | Most of those who saw the General in the weeks after his resignation did not come away with the impression that he was on the edge of his seat waiting to be asked back . |
| 4 | More importantly , he felt like a great sponge waiting to be filled . |
| 5 | And today he 's not some lost boy waiting to be taken seriously as a grown-up actor . |
| 6 | With its literal and figurative local colour , it is viewed as an intrinsically picturesque scene waiting to be recorded by the western artist . |
| 7 | A pile of mail sat on her desk waiting to be opened . |
| 8 | There 's all that bucket work waiting to be done , eh , the bucket work |
| 9 | This month , if you can haul yourself away from such hypnotic topics , you should find a universe waiting to be conquered . |
| 10 | Whilst the pert , Californian sexuality of Baywatch bimbos seems to be aimed at the heart of adolescent lust , Schiffer possesses a vital ambiguity within her features and her poise which recreates her as a story waiting to be told , as opposed to a fantasy waiting to be fulfilled . |
| 11 | He went out and sat on the top step of the staircase like a banished child waiting to be admitted . |
| 12 | Whilst the pert , Californian sexuality of Baywatch bimbos seems to be aimed at the heart of adolescent lust , Schiffer possesses a vital ambiguity within her features and her poise which recreates her as a story waiting to be told , as opposed to a fantasy waiting to be fulfilled . |
| 13 | In the midst of those terrifying complaint stories in Numbers is another chapter concerned with the offerings to be made once the people have occupied the Land , offerings which suggest a life of plenty waiting to be enjoyed there ( ch. |
| 14 | There 's an awful lot of money waiting to be claimed but making a mistake could be disastrous . ’ |
| 15 | The day was chill and there was no sign of a dead fire in the grate or of fresh fuel waiting to be lit . |
| 16 | ‘ The customers were mostly Japanese and the girls sat in a damp back room waiting to be called to join a man at his table . |
| 17 | ‘ Sobering business waiting to be invaded . |
| 18 | He pointed to the bolster at the top of the bed where a small , white rose lay like some gift waiting to be presented . |
| 19 | And salvation is not a long drawn out affair it 's not something we have to go through all sorts of processes to se , to finally achieve it , it 's there as God 's free gift waiting to be received . |
| 20 | ‘ See that ceiling , there 's thirty thousand pounds worth of dry rot waiting to be done . ’ |
| 21 | Am I going to some strange hospital with him to see his dad , or am I going to wander around Bristol all day waiting to be picked up by the police or my poor darling anxious parents ? |
| 22 | For Sun Yat-sen , the leader of the revolution , China was a slab of meat waiting to be carved up by foreign powers , a loose sheet of sand incapable of being coherently organised . |
| 23 | Now , once more looking at the small boy , she said briskly , ‘ Come , make up your mind quick , Bobbie ; I know you 've bought a shipping order tonight but there 's this lady and gentleman waiting to be served . ’ |
| 24 | Lotus Ami Pro — the king waiting to be crowned ? |
| 25 | Then he put his head on one side and looked at Albert in an expectant way , like a dog waiting to be given a biscuit . |
| 26 | ‘ He 's in my flat waiting to be telephoned . |
| 27 | Corbett glimpsed the arbalest in the midget 's hand and , in the poor light , the shimmering sharpness of the lethal bolt waiting to be fired . |
| 28 | One does n't need a passport , which is great , but what are irksome are the checkpoints and the queues of traffic waiting to be processed . |
| 29 | What happen was we was standing this jeweller 's , well really we 'd been there , she half the stuff for me and er other people and that , but erm , were standing there for ages , and she come , I 'm , I 'm sort of standing there like this up against the counter waiting to be served , suppose to be coming back right , stood right on the foot , it hurt , but I thought ok it 's a busy shop he wo n't so I 'd turned around , sort of he was there , so I sort of went to him like that and he was looked at me and fucking looked back , so I said are you gon na apologise then , getting right fucking pissed off cos I about three o'clock that day , hang over and being dragged up and down the town all fucking day ai n't my idea of fun you know , ri right in a bad mood anyway , and he said no in a real fucking why do n't you try and make me sort of attitude , so I 'm just about to fucking say something to me , like , how out the shop and everything , and she said what 's the fuck , what 's the matter with you then ? |
| 30 | It encircled the site of Callanish and drifted on to its grassy slopes where the men watched , with their Stones on the shore waiting to be raised . |