Example sentences of "waiting [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two hours later , Piper O'Rourke , Alex Bannen and a medical team were waiting as the Adjudicator 's ship locked home against the Belial Bridge terminus . |
| 2 | We are now waiting for the specialist to phone back . |
| 3 | But it should do more these days about practical matters — like the tax system and keeping yourself together while you 're out of work and waiting for the next job , for that is fifty percent of what you 'll be doing . |
| 4 | But as to advice — well , do n't just sit around waiting for the telephone to ring . |
| 5 | Kept in touch with him , waiting for the right occasion to use him . |
| 6 | And the reverse of that , wrote Harsnet , the feeling that all we have already felt and seen and heard has yet to happen , is so far only a dream , a fantasy , and the sense , he wrote , that this may be a feeling we experience again and again throughout our lives , that the elements of experience have failed to catch on to the glass of our lives , or that the glass is there and waiting for the experience to be registered , that it can wait for ever , for it does not know the meaning of time . |
| 7 | The result is that many glider pilots are becoming complacent about parking and on a really windy day it is not unusual to see gliders at risk , just waiting for the first really big gust of wind to blow them over . |
| 8 | She felt she 'd lived a zillion eternities , crossed endless lifeless galaxies , bearing her solitude , waiting for US , waiting for the fulfilment of all that lay between them . |
| 9 | Jay was waiting for the soul-inspired Adagio . |
| 10 | And the ordeal of putting up the lists — he could still feel the brute weight of Allan Stewart 's shoulder jolting him aside , the smell of whisky on his breath , and then the twilit hours lying low beside the minister in the church , waiting for the hubbub outside to die away . |
| 11 | The Duke held up his branch like a banner and began to lead the way along to the east gate , but a large part of the crowd stayed in a half-circle round the group at the table , as though waiting for the victor 's crow in the cockfight . |
| 12 | Carefully he tried again but Cameron took his arm and told him not to hurry unduly , the joists had only been pinned in place and they were still waiting for the long nails from Grandtully . |
| 13 | Janey 's waiting for the washing up and then she 's off . ’ |
| 14 | In fact its name still adorns the large office block in Paddock Wood — they 're waiting for the Friends of Felix Dhjerzinsky to come and remove it — but below is enscribed the new and politically squeaky-clean name of ‘ English Hops ’ . |
| 15 | It 's as if the name were waiting for the man , and for the novel which will transpersonalize or socialize the murderous concept : ‘ social unsteadiness , as Shatov says ’ and as we read in the Possessed notebooks . |
| 16 | ‘ At the moment we are waiting for the Americans . |
| 17 | Hundreds of people are standing around , gazing up at the indicator and waiting for the platform of their train to be flashed up . |
| 18 | Everyone is waiting for the Japanese . |
| 19 | We had several conversations at the Concentration area at Southampton waiting for the invasion to get under way . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's a bomb , ’ I thought , as I braced myself against the walls of the trench waiting for the inevitable explosion . |
| 21 | I hurried along keeping close to a wall and waiting for the inevitable mortar burst that would follow in the path of the jeep . |
| 22 | Lisa had got a proper job at last , as though tired of waiting for the Revolution . |
| 23 | Together they were the opposite of women who will nod and nod as they pretend to listen to another , waiting for the first pause of breath to muscle in with the growing pains and glories of their own house , the impatience showing on their faces as they wait . |
| 24 | To her surprise the small room of the post office was full of people waiting for the evening mail . |
| 25 | They were even more uncomfortable when their father entered with Rose just as the full hall was waiting for the curtain to go up . |
| 26 | There were curious villagers waiting for the wedding to begin in the back seats of the church but they did not look to left or right . |
| 27 | He now knew less about her than the day they had first met in the post office , standing beside one another on the scrubbed hollow boards , waiting for the evening mail van to come . |
| 28 | It is an elegant way to travel , much better than waiting for the buses which , at this time of year , seem to come every other Tuesday . |
| 29 | That worried us as there were several great skuas working the sky above the bog , and we spent some time waiting for the goose to return before setting off again . |
| 30 | The intention was to assist drivers on the front few rows , who can spend up to 90 seconds waiting for the rest of the grid to form . |