Example sentences of "[v-ing] and wait [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hate unidentified corpses — ca n't help thinking of women and children , living and waiting in false hopes . |
| 2 | … once the CNAA even began to lend its support to this development , there literally was a kind of explosion , and plainly institutions had been looking and waiting for validation in this field … |
| 3 | One supports that I lay in the street looking and waiting for a a man they mention tonight and that man is a well known killer of British soldiers . |
| 4 | Behind a door , they could hear an audience shuffling , coughing and waiting for a show to start . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been waiting and waiting for you to do that . |
| 6 | I kept waiting and waiting for you to ask me to stay but you did n't . |
| 7 | Oh we were waiting and waiting in the end we got in the car . |
| 8 | What can you gain from sitting behind a desk making and waiting for telephone calls , going from game to game watching players you already know about ? ’ |
| 9 | But to Perdita they appeared curiously passive , sitting and waiting for some man to make them unhappy . |
| 10 | They had stayed while the sun went down and all the time Tom had lain watching and waiting for something to happen — for something was bound to happen , otherwise for what reason had they come ? |
| 11 | The police had only recently organized a stake-out in a house just down the road , watching and waiting for a serial murderer to call in at his mother 's council flat to collect his laundry . |
| 12 | ‘ But please let me know whether or not you 'll be home this evening — otherwise I 'll be watching and waiting for you . ’ |
| 13 | Her park knew she was up there watching and waiting over it , and it tossed off a loving welcoming wave ; it — the tractor , the boys and the bulbs in the earth — knew she had chosen for them and was coming back to them . |