Example sentences of "we [am/are] waiting for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ At the moment we are waiting for the Americans . |
| 2 | We 've got clients , for example , where we are waiting for the sale of land to get our monies in , so it 's reasonable to expect that we 'll see that within the next three years . |
| 3 | Headline is enjoying this lovely writer , but it is his Cornish sagas we are waiting for , which I am told will make up the next book . |
| 4 | That is why , say many Beijingers , ‘ we are waiting for someone to die ’ . |
| 5 | It 's as if she is away staying somewhere , and we are waiting for her to come back , we can not do anything until she returns . |
| 6 | As maltsters we must not only be aware of our sales but of the customers themselves — here in Scotland we are waiting for the upturn . |
| 7 | Erm I , I er much of the compliment that you paid t to me and the department in terms of the efficiency that we 've , which we 're dealing with the correspondence , I , I am conscious of the fact that in something of this nature those er members that you mentioned , some of them are , are here this morning erm are , are not er s receiving er a regular erm series of er erm letters or , or pieces of information from the department and it 's very much an ad hoc situation erm and at the moment as far as is concerned , we are waiting for the the completion of some of the reporting before we erm er submerge them with er a , a , a , a lot of paper , but if there are any particular issues that erm any of those members or indeed any other members erm particularly wants to pursue , er th th the position is as it is on , on any matter , please do get in touch . |
| 8 | We are waiting for a new quotation from Eurofighter for their part of the programme erm but in advance of receiving it I 'd not rather not speculate as to which impact it might have on the project . |
| 9 | We are waiting for the home office to approve this . |
| 10 | ‘ We are waiting for a pathologist 's report but it would be fair to say the investigation is nearing completion , ’ she said . |
| 11 | ‘ The longest serving member of staff has been offered the one post that we will be able to fund from the Scottish Education Department for next session and currently we are waiting for a decision on that matter . ’ |
| 12 | We are staying in our hotel and we are waiting for the Serbs to stop killing the people . ’ |
| 13 | Okay get that dialling digit busy , we 're waiting for your call and we 'll be onto the lucky winner as soon as the competition closes . |
| 14 | A BSkyB spokesman said : ‘ We 're waiting for the various football bodies to sort the matter out . ’ |
| 15 | " We 're waiting for news on what we can expect the market to be doing tomorrow . |
| 16 | " We 're waiting for you , and getting wetter every moment . " |
| 17 | The police have sor , have got a copy of our emergency evacuation procedures , at the moment we 're waiting for them to return it to us . |
| 18 | Erm and , anyway , on the health and safety contractors on site thing Stuart has actually read the documentation and he 's quite happy with it , and we 're waiting for you and Martin to feed back as well on it . |
| 19 | He 's he 's not come yet so erm Perhaps while while we 're waiting for the others I 'll just say a few words about the building , because erm from out here you can see er quite clearly that the central portion of the building is the oldest erm from if you look at the state of the stonework . |
| 20 | We 're waiting for the lost and founds . |
| 21 | We 're waiting for you to start . |
| 22 | And while we 're waiting for them , Bill Saltman 's gone off to direct the establishment of white slavery in South America . |
| 23 | ‘ We 're waiting for more evidence . |
| 24 | In summary while we 're waiting for our to come back , if she is coming back we do n't know do we . |
| 25 | And erm you know , we 're waiting for him to come back and say , Yeah we need to talk . |
| 26 | at the minute , we 're waiting for some bits for this should be in today . |
| 27 | Yeah , we 're waiting for a . |
| 28 | Ah well that 's what we 're all waiting for , we 're waiting for you to drop it ! |
| 29 | Erm , I 'm not absolutely certain , I ai n't got the keys , I mean we 're waiting for the mortgage to that 's just being decided , draw the contracts after the exchange and er all that lark , but it will be a few weeks . |
| 30 | Yeah well we 're waiting for boots . |