Example sentences of "[adv] be [v-ing] for [pron] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed that Belov had only been waiting for her to ask . |
| 2 | Someone may just be waiting for us to arrive . ’ |
| 3 | Perhaps Mr Paxman would at last achieve what we have always been waiting for him to do in one of his interviews : either fall fast asleep or choke to death on one of his own jokes . |
| 4 | It 's quite possible that there are one or two old gentlemen , but when one wants to find a new operative , one really is looking for somebody to come in the trade who will be with the firm , all being well , for a number of years . |
| 5 | Yet the army too is waiting for someone to die , and the different factions of the party leadership are replicated in its high command . |
| 6 | It was waiting for something to happen ; as she too was waiting for something to happen — something which must , at all costs , be forbidden . |