Example sentences of "waiting for [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A man sits in his car at the traffic-lights , waiting for them to go green . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's not my intention to stay cooped up in here , waiting for them to go on with their little games . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | While waiting for them to reach the outer limit of their seaward tack , we fished for our enormous aviator 's chart which was larger and more colourful , if little more useful , than theirs . |
| 5 | But there I am , waiting for them to give me the okay . ’ |
| 6 | I roll the glass ball round in my hand a bit , waiting for them to say summat . |
| 7 | Wait wait waiting for them to say something . |
| 8 | This can actually produce those distressing occasions when , for example , a husband and wife are sitting there looking at each other , the dying one trying very hard to get on and die because they understand everyone is waiting for them to do so , and the survivor trapped with their feelings of guilt about wishing their relative would die , whilst at the same time not being able to leave the person 's side in case they miss the moment . |
| 9 | The horse blew great jets of steam from its nostrils as it stood on the towpath , patiently waiting for them to board . |
| 10 | ‘ It seems as if John had been waiting for them to leave . |
| 11 | He was waiting for them to leave . |
| 12 | The incalculable Boden had somehow worked his way round once again into forbidden territory , had been lurking somewhere in the bushes , waiting for them to leave . |
| 13 | He was still motionless , standing at the edge of the wood , perhaps waiting for them to leave . |
| 14 | Watching the door , Lucy stood waiting for them to emerge again , but their exit appeared to be taking a long time to eventuate . |
| 15 | We were waiting for them to turn up at Hamish and Tone 's but they never showed . |
| 16 | So he hung back for what seemed an interminable length of time , in the shadow of a dripping tree , waiting for them to move on . |
| 17 | Did they not feel the pressure of hopes raised , of hungry naked children waiting for them to move their pens ? |
| 18 | She had left the two of them to duel , not even acting as referee , waiting for them to tire , perhaps even to appeal to her . |
| 19 | When they returned , they discovered that the main body of men had already flown out and that a party of drivers under Scratchley was waiting for them to join the vehicle convoy south through the Great Sand Sea . |
| 20 | I 'm waiting for them to answer . |
| 21 | We are still waiting for them to agree or not to that . |
| 22 | And Steve obediently went off , taking with him a jar of Marmite in a garden trowel as a substitute for coal in a shovel , and he stood out there on the front porch in the cold listening to the silence and looking at the stars , waiting for them to let him in on the last stroke of Big Ben on the radio : a faint , feeble echo of some once meaningful ritual , though what it had meant or now could mean nobody there knew or had ever known . |
| 23 | Then without waiting for them to step into the room , she turned and left . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've put through a call to London and I 'm waiting for them to ring me up . |
| 25 | But , in meantime while I were waiting for them to ring me I were that mad ! |
| 26 | Or perhaps he was waiting for them to start counting their blessings there and then . |
| 27 | Tight-lipped , she drove in silence , keeping her eyes firmly on the road , but as they sat at red traffic-lights waiting for them to change she could n't keep silent any longer . |
| 28 | We had ten bobbies in five pairs waiting for them coming out . |
| 29 | Cos he 'll eat them , he 'll be stood there waiting for them coming out of the blooming oven ! |
| 30 | Her palms were sweating as she stood in the wings in her best green dress waiting for them to come off so that she could get on . |